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Victorian Vanguard
By: Sallie Brady Not unless you’ve sought them out in Britain’s museums or have been a dinner guest at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s London home are you likely to have been face-to-face with many Pre-Raphaelite pictures. The Victorian school of painting began when the Young British Artists of their day rebelled against the Renaissance methods of…
In Perspective
By: A&A Staff EXHIBITIONS A Stitch in Time: Alighiero e Boetti: “Mappa,” a show devoted to the late Italian conceptual artist’s series of embroidered world maps, continues at Gladstone Gallery in New York through Jan. 23. UPCOMING AUCTIONS Before the Puritans: A 1613 first edition of Samuel de Champlain’s Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain,…
Market: Florentine Time Capsule
By: Sallie Brady Is Italy really the place to buy Italian art and antiques? That’s what many collectors were left wondering earlier this fall when Florence did a flashback to its 1920s glory days, staging one of postwar Italy’s most anticipated auctions. Shuttered like a time capsule for decades, Palazzo Magnani Feroni was the warehouse…
Market: Miami Madness
By: A&A Staff It’s a sign of the season: As the cold weather sets in up north and the snowbirds head south, art invades Miami. This year Art Basel Miami Beach, the flagship event of December’s contemporary art week, is back for its eighth edition, along with—count them—17 satellite fairs and associated events. That’s a…
Market: Smart Sets
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Last September at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge location in London, an old television set with a 15-inch screen that no longer works sold for almost $30,000. While it comes with some spiffy extras (its oak-veneered cabinet also contains a record player, a radio and a minibar), it commanded £18,000 ($29,400) on an estimate…
Talking Pictures: The Scholar-Dealer
He is America’s preeminent dealer in Dutch Old Master paintings. But with his soft-spoken manner, gray-flecked beard and disarmingly rumpled suit, Otto Naumann looks more like a college professor than a businessman.
Essay: Poetry of the Moment
When Robert Frank’s landmark photography book, The Americans, was first published in the United States in 1959, it was not warmly received, to put it mildly. His photographs—off-kilter, sometimes out of focus or unflattering but always remarkable—were seen by some in that nationalistic, Cold War-era as an all-out condemnation of the country.
Exhibitions: In the House
During its relatively short life, the Bauhaus school was the site of thousands of conversations and experiments in which artists, designers and architects came together to collectively decide what contemporary art should be.
The Thinker
In September 1931, Alexandre Kojève addressed a letter to his uncle, painter Vasily Kandinsky, one of the pioneers of abstract art, comparing his capacity to continually discover new forms to Picasso’s. “But unlike him, you never allow yourself the role of ham actor,” quipped Kojève, a Russian emigré philosopher living in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne.
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