NAPLES, FL.- A carefully hand-picked selection of estate antiques, fine and decorative art, garden statuary and furniture is waiting in the wings for Auctions Neapolitan’s Feb. 26 Collectors’ Delight sale. The 425-lot auction offers a qualit…
Lisson Gallery in London Presents the First Solo Exhibition in London by Haroon Mirza
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents the first London solo exhibition by Haroon Mirza, on view from Feb. 15th through Mar. 19th. Working with video, sculpture, light and sound, Mirza creates large scale installations and assemblages that explore moments in…
Exhibition of Polish Design 1955-1968 from the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
WARSAW.- This pioneering exhibition of ca 180 objects from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, featuring the most important examples of Polish design, rarely seen in the West, will explore the significance of the objects of everyday use in…
Egypt Army Secures Egyptian Museum with Pharaonic Treasures: Report from Cairo
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Army units secured the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo against possible looting on Friday, protecting a building with spectacular pharaonic treasures such as the death mask of the boy king Tutankhamun, state TV said. The news follows…
Sotheby’s Announces the Dedicated Auction of What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announces the dedicated auction of What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald, to be held on 10 March 2011 in New York. The sale offers works assembled over the full span of Mr. McDonald’s impressive career as an…
Sotheby’s Announces the Dedicated Auction of What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announces the dedicated auction of What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald, to be held on 10 March 2011 in New York. The sale offers works assembled over the full span of Mr. McDonald’s impressive career as an…
Andy Warhol, Pinball All Appeal at Dennis Hopper Auction at Christie’s in New York
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- From the sublime to the silly, artwork, furniture and memorabilia owned by Dennis Hopper was auctioned off in New York this week. Typical was an Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong which the actor shot two bullets through and still …
The Wallace Collection Announces Plans for Newly-Refurbished Dutch Galleries
LONDON.- In early 2012 the Wallace Collection will unveil the newly-refurbished Dutch galleries in the East wing galleries of Hertford House, the first stage of refurbishment of the more traditional, top-lit galleries to add to the sumptuous twelve dom…
Exhibition of Forbidden City Treasures Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in February
NEW YORK, NY.- A special exhibition featuring 90 exquisite objects that once adorned an exclusive compound in the Forbidden City will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning February 1, 2011. Showcasing sumptuous murals, furniture, arc…
20th Century Design Sales at Sotheby’s in New York Total More than $19 Million
NEW YORK, NY.- A week of 20th Century Design sales at Sotheby’s New York concluded, bringing in excess of $19 million. This represents the highest total for a week of Design sales at Sotheby’s New York since December 2003, achieved with less …