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Inside Art: Bronzino Is Given His Museum Moment

Over the years, several European museums have tried to organize an exhibition devoted to the work of Bronzino, the poet who was also one of the most important Mannerist painters and draftsmen in 16th-century Florence. But none were successful because ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Louvre,  British Museum,  Harvard University,  Pierre Huyghe

Art Prices (and Mood) Inch Back Up

Oh the drama of auctions: the salesrooms packed with smartly dressed collectors; the tension of having to decide in seconds whether to drop another million dollars on an artwork or let it go; the steely smile of the auctioneer trying gently to squeeze ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sotheby's,  Francis Bacon,  David Rockefeller,  Merce Cunningham,  John Cage

Phillips de Pury Limps to the Finish With a $7 Million Total

The evening sale of contemporary art at Phillips de Pury brought a vibrant week of auctions to an anemic close on Thursday night. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andy Warhol,  Jeff Koons,  Charles Saatchi,  Yayoi Kusama,  Gagosian Gallery

Inside Art: American Art Fair at National Academy

A sale of paintings and watercolors by 19th- and early-20th-century American masters will be held at the National Academy, the artist-governed museum and school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that provoked an outcry last year when it sold two ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Falcon Heene,  Museum of Modern Art,  Tim Burton,  Thomas Eakins,  Ford Motor Company

Warhol Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction

It was the sale of the season. When a seminal Warhol one of the artist’s first silk-screen prints came on the block at Sotheby’s auction of contemporary art on Wednesday night, the auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, opened bidding at $6 million and was stunned ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andy Warhol,  Sotheby's,  Dora Maar,  Peter M Brant,  Jasper Johns

At Christie’s, a Return of American Collectors, With an Eye on Price

Some of the great names in postwar and contemporary art were solid sellers at Christie’s on Tuesday night. And while American collectors were back, dominating the bidding, price mattered. Only one work a 1996 painting by the Scottish artist Peter Doig ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter Doig,  Merce Cunningham,  John Cage,  Rockefeller Center, NY,  Michael Ovitz

Inside Art: Dia Plans to Return to Its Chelsea Roots

After years of scouring Manhattan real estate for a base in New York, a troubled process that was bedeviled by setbacks, the Dia Art Foundation has found a new home on the site of its old home. It is planning to build a space on the footprint of one of ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dan Graham,  Harry B. Helmsley,  Dan Flavin,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Donald Judd

Prices Far Surpass Estimates at Sotheby’s Auction

In an Impressionist and modern art sale that had all the right ingredients quality, value and variety Sotheby’s salesroom was teeming on Wednesday night with a United Nations of enthusiastic bidders from Latin America, China, the United States, Russia ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Solomon R. Guggenheim,  Gagosian Gallery,  Vert (musician),  Simon Shaw

Degas Pastel Is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale

French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie’s salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some strong prices, there also expensive failures. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rockefeller Center, NY,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Solomon R. Guggenheim

On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices

The images splashed across the pages of this fall’s auction catalogs are as familiar as they are telling: Degas dancers and Pissarro landscapes; Picasso portraits and Warhol dollar bills. All are well-known paintings and drawings by tried-and-true ...

From CAROL VOGEL, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sotheby's,  Merce Cunningham,  Peter M Brant,  Solomon R. Guggenheim,  Jean-Michel Basquiat

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