NEW YORK, N.Y.- Following the record-shattering price of $35,922,500 achieved at Sotheby’s New York in November 2010 by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses (est. $3/5 million), Sotheby’s announces that the 5 May 2011 sale of …
Giant, 35,000 Pound Yellow Teddy Bear by Artist Urs Fischer to Brighten New York City
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- London has Paddington Bear but New York now has a giant yellow teddy bear, a great sculptural masterpiece that could sell for more than $9 million at auction in May, Christie’s said on Saturday. A 23-foot (7-meter) high, bronze ted…
El Greco Masterpiece is a Vision at Dulwich Picture Gallery
LONDON.- Every month during the Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. It is difficult to decipher this great, enigmatic masterpiece for not only is it unfinished,…
Film Clips that Established the Reputation of American Artist Bruce Conner at Kunsthalle Zurich
ZURICH.- To an alternately rousing and poignant soundtrack, Indians chase a stagecoach and a tightrope walker balances on a wire above a city – these images feature in the found footage masterpiece A MOVIE (1958), an assemblage of newsreel images …
Masterpiece by Constable from the National Gallery of Scotland to Travel to Duff House
BANFFSHIRE.- One of the best-loved paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland is to travel to the north east of Scotland for the first time this spring. The Vale of Dedham by John Constable (1777-1837) will be on show at Duff House in Banffshire, w…
Frank Miller’s 1986 Dark Knight Batman & Robin Splash Page to Be Offered at Heritage Auctions
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The iconic original art for the page 10 splash page from issue #3 of Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s The Dark Knight Returns, the comic series that almost single-handedly re-vitalized Batman, and defined the best of 1980s comics, is exp…
Alte Pinakothek Celebrates 175th Anniversary with a Series of Blockbuster Exhibitions
MUNICH.- In 2011 the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen is marking the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th anniversary with a wide range of events. Opened to the public on 16 October, 1836, Leo von Klenze’s seminal museum building today still provides t…
Vintage Racecar to be Exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- For the first time in its history, the MFA will exhibit a classic racecar. The Tracta A—the only car of its type in the world— will be installed in the glass Conservatory March 24 and will remain on view through April 7. …
Alte Pinakothek Exhibits Painting by Johannes Vermeer as Part of Its 175th Anniversary
MUNICH.- The Alte Pinakothek welcomes a very special guest to its 175th anniversary: Johannes Vermeer’s “Woman Holding a Balance” from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The exhibition is on display until June 16, 2011. In the ea…
Newly Acquired Turner’s "Modern Rome-Campo Vaccino" on View at the Getty
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announces that J.M.W. Turner’s masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1838-39) is now on view at the Getty Center. The recently acquired painting shows a view of Rome from the Capitoline Hill, as if looking …