Architecture in Art: Mark Daly’s Radio City Music Hall, First Snow
With the holidays just around the corner, I figured this week we’d talk about one of the more festive places in the city – Radio City Music Hall, which is featured in Mark Daly’s Radio City Music Hall, First Snow. … More…
Bonhams NY Impressionist & Modern Sale
On Tuesday, December 6th, Bonhams New York hosted an Impressionist and Modern Art sale featuring several highly-valued works expected to ensure a successful auction. Unfortunately, those expectations couldn’t have been more wrong. It was an absolutely dismal affair and probably … More…
Auction House Standoff In Poland
The 1908 painting Rzeczywistość (or Reality in English) by the Polish symbolist Jacek Malczewski has not been exhibited for nearly a century. But now, DESA Unicum in Warsaw will auction it off on December 8th, with specialists predicting it to sell for anywhere … More…
Cultural Defiance: Ukrainian Art On Display in Spain
On Tuesday, November 15th, Russia unleashed its most brutal shelling of Kyiv to date, with over a hundred missiles raining down on the Ukrainian capital and knocking out power to much of the region. However, two trucks departed the city only … More…
The Day The Music Died
‘The Day the Music Died’ are lyrics from Don Mclean’s 1971 song American Pie, his greatest hit. But this isn’t about a song; it’s about a piece of memorabilia found after the tragedy that occurred on February 3, 1959, referenced … More…
A New Old Master
It’s not every day that you find a forgotten painting by one of the Old Masters. But that is definitely the case for the Italian baroque painter Guercino. It seems like someone suddenly rediscovers one of his portraits or religious … More…
Walking In Steve Jobs’ Shoes
Would you want to walk in Steve Jobs’ shoes? Well, someone may be doing just that! A pair of Jobs’ Birkenstocks from the 1970s recently sold at auction and set an auction record for the highest price paid for a … More…
The Ruffini Affair At An End?
European authorities have long suspected the Italian art dealer Giuliano Ruffini of being at the center of one of the largest Old Masters forging networks in Europe. He and his colleagues allegedly created fake paintings and passed them off as … More…
London Old Masters Week: Sotheby’s Evening Sale
Last week was an exciting time for the Old Masters market, since both Christie’s and Sotheby’s hosted their end-of-the-year sales at their London locations. However, the December 7th Sotheby’s evening sale arguably received a little more attention. While works by … More…