Fine Art Registry Prevails Against Park West Gallery in Federal Court

DETROIT, MI.- A Federal Court jury decided completely in favor of Phoenix based Fine Art Registry® and three individual defendants in a defamation and business interference case brought by Southfield Michigan company, Park West Gallery, and also awarded $500,000 in damages to Fine Art Registry for Park West Gallery’s illegal use of the web based art registration company’s trademarks on the internet. The case (No. 2:08-CV-12274) finally ended after a marathon five and a half week trial in Federal Court [...]

Solo Exhibition by New York Artist Paul Villinski at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presents Glidepath, a solo exhibition by mid-career, New York artist Paul Villinski. The exhibition explores metaphors of flight and transformation through a delicate meditation on found objects, showcasing Villinski’s well- known metamorphosis of discarded materials into evocative forms. Glidepath travels from the explosive energy of birds in flight made from old LP records through sinuous and serene streams of hundreds of ultramarine blue butterflies crafted from discarded aluminum cans. Of the found materials for [...]

King Tutankhamun Returns to New York After More than 30 Years for Last Leg of U.S. Exhibit

NEW YORK, NY.- More than 30 years after King Tut’s last visit to New York, the golden boy is back. “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs,” which opened yesterday and runs to January 2, contains more than 130 rare artifacts, twice the number of treasures shown in the 1970s exhibit. It includes items used for royal burial practices and daily life in ancient Egypt, King Tut’s viscera coffin, containers for the boy king’s mummified liver, his chariot and [...]

Excellent Results Mark European Paintings Sale at Bonhams New York

NEW YORK, NY.- On April 21st the attention of collectors was on Bonhams New York’s European Paintings sale. Offering a wide selection of paintings from many of the most prominent schools of the 19th Century in Europe and featuring a number of collections, the nearly 300 lot sale attracted an international group of bidders. The top lot of the sale was by Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824-1898) titled Bateaux sur la Meuse. Depicting boats in a French harbor, the painting [...]

Christie’s Presents the Most Valuable Chinese Painting Ever Offered at Auction

HONG KONG.- A masterpiece valued at HK$120 million/US$15,480,000 by Ming Dynasty Chinese classical painting master Shitao (石涛) (1642–1707) will be offered by leading international auction house Christie’s at its Hong Kong Spring Sales on May 28th. Shitao, a renowned scholar-artist, was one of the most influential painters of his time and had a profound effect on the artistic development of subsequent Chinese ink and brush artists, including early 20th century masters such as Zhang Daqian (张大千) and Fu Baoshi (傅抱石). [...]

Internationally Renowned Artists Enrich K21 in Dusseldorf

DUSSELDORF.- With Monika Sosnowska’s project Ohne Titel, 2010 (Untitled, 2010), the imposing interior courtyard of the K21 Ständehaus is made available to an artistic intervention for the first time. At two-year intervals beginning in 2010, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen will be inviting internationally acclaimed artists to use the “airspace” above the piazza as the site of a contemporary intervention, each designed to heighten awareness of the museum as a “house of art” in the eyes of entering visitors. Chosen for the [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Long-Lost Art Trove of Ambroise Vollard

LONDON.- Sotheby’s yesterday announced the sale of a group of works whose story must surely rank among the most compelling in art market history. The works, a long-lost treasure trove of paintings, prints, books and drawings by key avant-garde artists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, belonged to Ambroise Vollard, the legendary Parisian art dealer who played a pivotal role in the development of the Impressionist and Modern Art market: the artists he represented ranged from Renoir to [...]

New Work by Joel Shapiro on View at The Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Joel Shapiro: New Work, the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at the gallery since joining in 1992. Joel Shapiro: New Work will be on view at 534 West 25th Street, New York City from April 17 through May 15, 2010. Joel Shapiro’s new body of work is composed of painted rough wood elements suspended in space from the walls, the floor and ceiling via string. Shapiro cuts the wood and paints it with dry [...]

Museum for African Art Announces April 2011 Opening

NEW YORK, NY.- Elsie McCabe Thompson, President, the Museum for African Art, announced that the Museum—one of the country’s premier gateways to the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora—will reopen to the public in its major new facility in April 2011. Designed by the renowned New York City firm Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, the new building is located at 1280 Fifth Avenue, at East 110th Street, in Manhattan. There it will join “Museum Mile,” linking this [...]

Christopher Makos Presents Vintage Polaroids at Christopher Henry Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Christopher Henry Gallery presents Christopher Makos Polaroids, an exhibition of 55 original vintage SX-70 Polaroids. Much more than photographs, Makos’ Polaroids are, in fact, precious artifacts – historic one-of-a-kind mementos from the 70s and early 80s, an era famously celebrated for its decadence but less often noted for its remarkable innocence. Decades before the age of flatbed scanners, digital cameras and desktop printers, Polaroid cameras had the unique ability to capture private, unreproducible moments in time – [...]

Chagall Discovery Adds Excitement to Bonhams Impressionist Auction

LONDON.- A masterpiece by Marc Chagall rarely before seen in public is to headline the Impressionist and Modern Art auction at Bonhams on Tuesday 22nd June, and is estimated to fetch £1,200,000-1,800,000. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century – a pioneer of modernism whose haunting yet exuberant works are also quintessentially Jewish. Born in Russia, he spent most of his life in France and in his works can be seen a merging of [...]

Egypt’s Zahi Hawass Chides Museums over Antiquities

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities chief, speaking at a preview of a King Tut exhibition, renewed his attacks on museums he claims have refused to return artifacts that rightfully belong in Egypt. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said Wednesday he had a wish list of objects he wants returned. He singled out several museums, including the St. Louis Art Museum, which he said has a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that was stolen before the museum [...]

The Mint Museum Appoints Kathleen Jameson as New Executive Director

CHARLOTTE, NC.- The Mint Museum announced the appointment of Kathleen V. Jameson, Ph.D., as its new Executive Director, following an extensive national search supported by Management Consultants for the Arts and a Board of Trustees search committee. Jameson succeeds Phil Kline, who will remain at the Museum as its President & CEO until his retirement on December 31. Jameson has served as Assistant Director, Programming, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, since 2008 and will assume her new position [...]

Private Collections Soar at Sotheby’s Russian Art Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Spring 2010 Russian Art sale concluded today in New York achieving a total of $13,572,252, well within the $10.7/15 million estimate and 81% sold by value. The highlights of the sale were a series of private collections that all achieved strong prices. A record for a work at auction by Pavel Tchelitchew was set when Portrait of Ruth Ford sold for $986,500 – over $400,000 more than the previous record price. A new auction record was [...]

Huntington to be the First U.S. Venue for Important Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes Exhibition

SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will be the first U.S. venue for the important international exhibition “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection,” which will be on view in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery Oct. 9, 2010 through Jan. 24, 2011. The exhibition is a rare look at 24 exceptional bronze statuettes from the private collection of New York architect Peter Marino—most of which have never before been [...]