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Market: A British Assortment
By: Sallie Brady Remember when London in June was a must-do? And when the annual season of top-quality antiques fairs and gallery exhibitions meant serious shopping? That was before the British pound hit the two-to-one mark against the dollar, and Americans in the English capital became as rare as sunshine. This summer, however, the forecast…
Gathering of the Tribes
By: Robert Ross From June 3–7 Brussels is once again the locus of excitement for connoisseurs of all things tribal and ethnographic. Now in its 19th year the Brussels Non-European Art Fair will turn one of Europe’s major tribal art cities into a hub of activity, with world-class dealers featuring African, Oceanic, Indonesian, pre-Columbian, Asiatic…
Market: Still on Top
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Few art fairs that focus on modern and contemporary art remain vital long enough to mark their 40th editions; Art Basel is one of those few. The 2009 fair will take place June 10–14 in Basel, Switzerland and will feature more than 300 exhibitors, including 11 first-timers. Art Basel has felt…
Market: A Different Light
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Vilhelm Hammershøi was a mysterious Danish artist who made mysterious, haunting paintings. He preferred the restrained light of his native Copenhagen and let it infuse his images, many of which depict dwellings where he and his wife, Ida, lived around the turn of the 20th century. She was his favorite model,…
In Perspective
By: The Editors UPCOMING AUCTIONS High Gloss: A trio of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann furnishings—a piano, a bookcase and a double bed—will headline one of the two Art Deco sales at Sotheby’s Paris on June 4. The boat-shaped bed, from 1928, is made of amboyna veneer, tulipwood and gilt bronze, and is estimated at €60,000–80,000 ($78,000–104,000). Fine…
Exhibitions: A Monumental Show
By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounts a Saint-Gaudens exhibition, it tends to be a major event. Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opens June 30 and continues through Nov. 15, will be the fourth such exhibition in the Met’s history and the first since…
Talking Pictures: A Holland-America Line
By: Jonathan Lopez On Feb. 6 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced that it had acquired Bagpipe Player in Profile, by the 17th-century Dutch artist Hendrick ter Brugghen. A sophisticated image, it depicts a rustic musician in antique costume, seated, the brawny mass of his exposed right arm offering a poignant contrast to the…
Critic's Notebook: A Painter of Modern Life
In 1967, at the height of Beatlemania, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bandappeared to wide acclaim. With more than 11 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, it was one of the most successful albums of all time. The cover, designed by the British painter Peter Blake, displayed 70 famous faces, including Edgar Allan Poe, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Carl Jung, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, Lenny Bruce, Mae West—and one painter, Richard Lindner.
More Than Murals
Despite the standard art-history-book summary of Mexican modernism, there actually is much more to this colorful subject than the works, emblematic though they might be, of Los Tres Grandes (The Three Great Ones)—Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. Their epoch-defining murals painted in the decades following the 1910–20 revolution that ousted the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz gave enduring expression to a proud people’s still-emerging sense of national identity.
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