Archive for April 2009

By: Sallie Brady With the cancellations of the 12-year-old International Asian Art Fair, which was once was the centerpiece of New York’s March Asia Week, and the 5-year-old Moscow World Fine Art Fair, which was rescheduled for September from May, collectors are wondering which fair will go next. Factor in the closing of three of…

By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley One of the joys of attending a fair is encountering treasures you’ve never seen before, or items that reach the market only once in a lifetime. The 49th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which takes place April 2–5 at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan and features 205 exhibitors, should…

By: Christy Grosz With an angular roof that pitches dramatically toward the blue sky above it, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.’s 1965 Bowler residence in Palos Verdes, Calif., represents the distinctive style the architect carefully developed outside his father’s shadow. Taking père’s penchant for angles and use of inexpensive materials like concrete and corrugated fiberglass, Wright,…

By: James Panero The students of Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., have been enrolled in a crash course in museum ethics and the realities of the art market. On Jan. 26 the trustees voted unanimously to sell the permanent collection of the school’s 48-year-old Rose Art Museum, which houses one of the finest collections of…

By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Some see the glass as half empty; others see it as half full. The sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art that Sotheby’s and Christie’s held in London in February contained fodder for the arguments of both camps. The half-empty crowd can cite the collective total for the four evening sales…