HOPE, AK (AP).- Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope has been open as a museum for more than a decade, but this is the first year that visitors are seeing the home as part of the National Park Service. The home became a national historic site at the st…
New Book Published by Assouline Tells the Captivating History of French Restaurant Maxim’s
NEW YORK, NY.- In France, Maxim’s is a restaurant as strong and essential to la vie Parisienne today as it was when it opened more than a century ago. The legend begins in 1893, when Maxime Gaillard, a waiter, opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale…
Alex J. Taylor Receives Second Annual Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Alex J. Taylor has been awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 2011 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize. Taylor’s winning essay “Unstable Motives: Propaganda, Politics and the Late Work of…
Photographs from the Heinz Hajek-Halke Estate to Be Sold at Sotheby’s in Paris
LONDON.- On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-g…
Photographs from the Heinz Hajek-Halke Estate to Be Sold at Sotheby’s in Paris
LONDON.- On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-g…
Morgan Fisher’s New Works, Photographs and Works on Paper at Bortolami
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami presents an exhibition of Morgan Fisher’s new works, photographs and works on paper. The photographs in the show present boxes of still film from the 1950s. They are doubly obsolete: once for being drastically past expirat…
Francis Bacon Masterpieces to Highlight Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A Francis Bacon self-portrait triptych is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it hits the auction block next month, Christie’s said Monday. “Three Studies for Self-Portrait,” a 1974 work which depicts three distorted, gutt…
Morgan Fisher’s New Works, Photographs and Works on Paper at Bortolami
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami presents an exhibition of Morgan Fisher’s new works, photographs and works on paper. The photographs in the show present boxes of still film from the 1950s. They are doubly obsolete: once for being drastically past expirat…
‘An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art’ at the New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CT.- Until July 3rd 2011 the New Britain Museum of American Art’s McKernan Gallery features ‘An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art’. The exhibition is composed of works from the personal collection of Jonathan “…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Reaches Purchase Agreement for 17th-Century Tapestries
BOSTON, MA.- Provenance research conducted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has resulted in new discoveries about the history of ownership of four 17th-century tapestries in the MFA’s collection. The Museum’s research revealed that …