DALLAS, TX.- The gold cape that Elizabeth Taylor wore as Cleopatra in two pivotal scenes in the 1963 film of the same name is expected to bring $20,000 as the top entertainment lot in Heritage Auctions’ March 30 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia S…
National Galleries launches search for works by Scottish Colourist S. J. Peploe
EDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art launched an appeal for owners of paintings by the celebrated Scottish Colourist S. J. Peploe to come forward. Following the success of its current exhibition devoted to the work of Peploe’s …
Hammer Galleries celebrates its third year exhibiting at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht
MAASTRICHT.- Hammer Galleries presents a selection of works from their Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond exhibition at TEFAF Maastricht this year. Following the success of their critically acclaimed Renoir exhibition at TEFAF 2011, Hammer’s curren…
After seven years of trial and testimony from dozens of experts, Israeli court clears 2 of faking Jesus-era box
JERUSALEM (AP).- Is the purported burial box of Jesus’ brother James fake or authentic? Seven years of trial, testimony from dozens of experts and a 475-page verdict Wednesday failed to come up with an answer. A Jerusalem judge, citing reasonable doubt…
Two new installations now on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration brings together around 90 works from MoMA’s collection that explore the various operations to which artists have submitted the human figure since the turn of the last century. In a series of c…
"Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1950-1980" exhibition opens in Berlin
BERLIN (AP).- A primer on three decades of post-World War II art from Los Angeles, including iconic images from Ed Ruscha and David Hockney, abstract works by Sam Francis and conceptual pieces from the 1960s and 1970s, is going on show in Berlin. The s…
Original works by Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead guitars up for auction at Bonhams
SAN FRANCISCO.- Nearly 17 years after the passing of Grateful Dead lead guitarist, singer and songwriter Jerry Garcia, worldwide auction house Bonhams will present its Visions of Garcia auction, May 8 (the 35th anniversary of the famous 5-8-77 Cornell …
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers inaugural Denver auction drwas standing room only crowd
DENVER, CO.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers opened its fourth regional office and auction room with the sale of the Anne S. and Robert E. Clay Collection of Native American Art to a packed room in Denver on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The Clays began buying Na…
Doris Salcedo’s "Mute Prayer" opens at Maxxi in Rome
ROME.- Doris Salcedo has cracked the floor of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London (2007), walled up a room of the Castello di Rivoli near Turin (2005) and filled the “human void” left by the destruction of a building in Istanbul wit…
Peruvians feel robbed over Spain getting treasure
LIMA (AP).- We were robbed! That’s how many Peruvians feel, now that U.S. courts have given Spain the 17 tons of silver and gold coins that a private company salvaged from the wreck of a colonial-era Spanish sailing ship. The treasure’s origin is not i…