Navajo weavings, Zuni Pueblo pottery, Northern Plains beadwork and other works of Native American art formed part of the foundational collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and captivated some of the Museum’s most influential early leaders.
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The palace of Versailles has attracted travelers since it was transformed under the direction of the Sun King, Louis XIV (1638–1715), from a simple hunting lodge into one of the most magnificent public courts of Europe. French and foreign travelers, royalty, dignitaries and ambassadors, artists, musicians, writers and philosophers, scientists, Grand Tourists and day-trippers alike, all flocked to the majestic royal palace surrounded by its extensive formal gardens.
DALLAS, Texas (April 10, 2018) — A stunning tea and coffee service is expected to vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Silver & Vertu Auction April 25 in Dallas, Texas.
The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to present an installation of 16 pieces of American studio jewelry from the 1930s to the present day, a promised gift of Toni Wolf Greenbaum. Greenbaum is a New York–based art historian specializing in 20th- and 21st-century jewelry and metalwork. She is the author of "Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry, 1940–1960" and is currently writing a monograph on modernist jeweler Sam Kramer. Greenbaum has lectured internationally and has curated exhibitions for several museums.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will partner with the Southwest Business Improvement District to present “Brand New SW,” a new public art project celebrating Washington, D.C.’s innovative and collaborative art scene. The museum invited Washington-based artists No Kings Collective, NoMüNoMü and SUPERWAXX to create graphic posters, inspired by “Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s,” the Hirshhorn’s current exhibition exploring the connection between art and marketing in the 1980s.
Leading international auction house Sotheby’s today announces plans to launch sales in India with ‘Boundless: Mumbai’ scheduled for December 2018. The sale will be held at the landmark venue, The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai.
New York – This Spring, Christie’s will offer Andy Warhol’s Most Wanted Men, No. 11, John Joseph H., Jr., 1964 (estimate in the range of $30 million) as a highlight of its May 17th Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. This diptych belongs to one of the artist’s controversial Most Wanted Men series, which was originally conceived as a monumental mural to celebrate the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and famously destroyed just a few days before the fair’s official opening.
The Photography Show will be held Thursday, April 5, through Sunday, April 8, 2018, at Pier 94 in New York City. The 38th edition of the Show will feature 96 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries, over 30 book sellers, 15 AIPAD talks, three special exhibitions, one screening room, and more. Presented by AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers), the fair is the longest-running and foremost exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium.
The sale achieved a total of HK$46,269,375 with keen interest in works from private collections never before offered at public auction. These included The Zhen Shang Zhai Classical Chinese Paintings Collection from a European private collector; classical and modern paintings from a private British collector, and works from the Kaikodo Gallery in New York.
On the heels of its most successful ever Editions sale in London, Phillips is proud to announce the department’s 10th anniversary auction on 24 April in New York. The Editions team was founded at Phillips in 2008 by Cary Leibowitz and Kelly Troester, who both remain at the helm today.
