September 25, 2012 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Adirondack Antiques Street Show Hosts Exhibitors Sept 126
    September 25, 2012

    The Adirondack Antiques Street Show that ran September 12‱6, offered canoes, pack baskets, mounts, full-size bears, paintings, paddles and hundreds of other pieces to use or decorate a cottage or camp.

  • Antique Textile & Vintage Fashions Show Boasts Full House, Record Crowd
    September 25, 2012

    Colors were strong and bright for this year⁳ final Antique Textiles and Vintage Fashions Show and Sale at Sturbridge Host Hotel and Resort conducted on September 3. Produced three times each year on the Monday of Brimfield Antiques Market Week, the show drew great crowds of shoppers who were buying from the collections offered by the nearly 150 exhibitors. In fact, Linda Zukas, producer of this nearly 20-year tradition, said attendance was at a new record high.

  • Weatherbeaten The Late Paintings Of Winslow Homer At Portland Museum Of Art
    September 25, 2012

    Celebrating the opening of the newly restored Winslow Homer Studio, which it maintains, the Portland Museum of Art. Portland, Maine, is showcasing more than 30 major oils and watercolors painted during the artist⁳ tenure in the studio, 1883-1910. Drawn from Portland⁳ own rich holdings and museums around the country, ⁗eatherbeaten: The Late Paintings of Winslow Homer,†on view through December 30, introduces new perspectives on the life and work of this celebrated artist. The exhibition is organized by Thomas A. Denenberg, Portland⁳ former chief curator and now director of Vermont⁳ Shelburne Museum, who writes in the excellent catalog that the works displayed, ⁰art and parcel of their age, read as a visual fulcrum between Victorian sentiment and Modernist visual culture.†⁗eatherbeaten†traces Homer⁳ artistic path at Prouts Neck from narrative work to dramatic encounters between sea and rocks, locating viewers, as Denenberg puts it, ⁩n that place where the Atlantic Ocean laps, murmurs and roars with the seasons&⁛painting] life lesson[s] for the modern era, a visual poem about time and constancy. 

  • Christie Asian Art Week Achieves 447 Million
    September 25, 2012

    Christie⁳ concluded its fall Asian art week with a combined total of $44,735,075 achieved over four days of sales, September 11 to 14.

  • New Top Ten Art Crime Reward For Stolen Renoir
    September 25, 2012

    An oil painting by French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir stolen from a Houston home last year †and estimated to be worth $1 million †is the newest addition to the FBI⁳ Top Ten Art Crimes list.

  • Monkey Door Stop Stolen From Brimfield Market
    September 25, 2012

    An antiques dealer showing at J&J Promotions during the September edition of the Brimfield antiques markets reported the theft of a cast iron Hubley doorstop in the form of a monkey from her booth.

  • aga SitesSurveys Iceland At Scandinavia House Sept 29
    September 25, 2012

    The American-Scandinavian Foundation will present an exhibition tracking the great, medieval narratives of Iceland †known collectively as the Íslendingasögur, or the Sagas of Icelanders †through the Nineteenth Century watercolors of British artist W.G. Collingwood and the personal, documentary photographs of Icelandic artist Einar Falur Ingólfsson. ⁓aga Sites: Landscapes of the Icelandic Sagas†will be on view September 29⁊anuary 12.

  • Mughal Dagger Realizes 314,500 At Rago Auction
    September 25, 2012

    Rago Arts and Auction Center⁳ 2,000-lot auction September 14‱6 would have been a great success even without lot 2606. With it, Rago has made news.

  • hock Of The NewsAt National Gallery
    September 25, 2012

    Since 1909, major artists from nearly every art movement have co-opted, mimicked, defused, undermined, memorialized and rewritten newspapers. ⁓hock of the News†at the National Gallery of Art examines the myriad manifestations of the ewspaper phenomenon†through 65 collages, paintings, drawings, sculptures, artists†newspapers, prints and photographs by European and American artists, from F. T. Marinetti and Pablo Picasso to the Guerrilla Girls and Robert Gober.

  • New Top Ten Art Crime: Reward For Stolen Renoir
    September 25, 2012

    Washington D.C.: An oil painting by French Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir stolen from a Houston home last year and estimated to be worth $1 million — is the newest addition […]



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