NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions announces the launch of a new 20th and 21st century design department headed by Brent Lewis, former Christie’s specialist and auctioneer and gallery director at Moss. New design lots go live each week, providing a co…
Russia’s Venerable Bolshoi Theater to Reopen in October After Years of Reconstruction
MOSCOW (AP).- Russia’s venerable Bolshoi Theater — which survived fires, a Nazi bombing and Lenin’s request to have it blown up — is almost ready to reopen after years of reconstruction and will look just as it did during the czarist era. Th…
High Commissions Two Iconic Designers for Exhibition Opening in June
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art has commissioned two new major works by Dutch designer Joris Laarman and the Japanese design collective nendo to be installed this spring in Atlanta. Laarman’s “Digital Matter” and nendo’s “…
ART AND ANTIQUE DEALERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA (AADLA) ANNOUNCES NEW SPRING SHOW NYC AT PARK AVENUE ARMORY
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) has announced that the opening night benefit preview for its inaugural Spring Show NYC, at the Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 will benefit the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®). The Honorary Co-chairs are Jared Kushner and Ivanka […]
Plans by Architect Charles Burton for World’s First Skyscraper at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale
LONDON.- An astonishing mid 19th century design for what would have been the world’s first skyscraper is for auction at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, it was decided to move the C…
Plans by Architect Charles Burton for World’s First Skyscraper at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale
LONDON.- An astonishing mid 19th century design for what would have been the world’s first skyscraper is for auction at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January. After the Great Exhibition of 1851, it was decided to move the C…