WARSAW (AP).- Polish and U.S. officials are engaged in intense talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: a barrack that once housed doomed prisoners at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp and is now on display at the United States Holocaust Memor…
Bonhams to sell pistols of aide-de-camp to King George III, a veteran of American War of Independence
LONDON.- This exceptional pair of Indian 28-bore silver-mounted flintlock pistols with silver barrels was owned by Lt. Col. Alexander Ross (1742-1827), whose extraordinary record of distinguished combat in theatres of war took place on three continents…
Baryshnikov shows his dance photography at the Gary Nader Art Centre in Miami
MIAMI (AP).- The dancer in the photograph isn’t frozen in time. Her body is the source of light on a darkened stage, and with a blur of muscle, she’s dancing straight at the viewer who has stepped into her moment. The image is one of roughly two dozen …
Florida museum auctions off antique cars, carousel, bringing in $38.3 million in sales
BOCA RATON (AP).- Two brothers’ unique private museum of classic cars, rare musical instruments and other collectibles was emptied Saturday with the final strike of an auctioneer’s gavel, bringing in $38.3 million in sales. Two days of bidding on 550 l…
Phillips de Pury & Co. announces highlights from its New York photographs single owner sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company launches its Spring Photographs season with a single-owner sale titled The Face of Modernism: A Private West Coast Collection. Comprised of 28 lots, this single-owner collection provides a glimpse into a pivota…
On the 210th anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birth, Christie’s announces the sale of the Hugo Collection
PARIS.- On the 210th anniversary of Victor Hugo’s birth, Christie’s announced the sale of The Hugo Collection on April 4th. An important group of nearly 500 books, paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs, furniture and other personal obj…
Designers Miuccia Prada, Elsa Schiaparelli in new Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit
MILAN (AP).- Miuccia Prada never met her designing compatriot Elsa Schiaparelli in life but the two are being united in an exhibit on the sidelines of Milan Fashion Week. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has paired designs by the two female Italian styli…
LACMA to begin transport of boulder for major artwork, Levitated Mass, by artist Michael Heizer
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 340-ton megalith that is to be part of artist Michael Heizer’s monumental artwork, Levitated Mass, is scheduled to begin its journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on the night of Tuesday, February 28. Due to…
New York City’s Hispanic Society of America, which holds a world-class collection, seeks to make itself known
NEW YORK (AP).- Situated behind a wrought-iron gate on an attractive brick terrace in upper Manhattan, the Hispanic Society of America is an imposing museum and research library. It has a world-class collection of Iberian art that includes works from s…
The Ashmolean Museum campaigns to save a masterpiece by Edouard Manet for the nation
OXFORD.- The Ashmolean Museum is mounting a campaign to save Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, 1868, for the nation. On the advice of the Reviewing Committee, the Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has extended the temporary export bar on t…