image: (L-R) Professor Ute Meta Bauer (Chair), Founding Director, NTU CCA Singapore, who is also Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU; European Union Ambassador to Singapore Iwona Piórko, and Professor Joseph Liow, Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University. (Photo credit: NTU Singapore) view more Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang
Xavier Roussel (French, 1867-1944), Satyr Chasing a Woodland Nymphette, oil-on-canvas, artist-signed. Size: 12in wide x 9 7/8in high. Provenance: Collection of Dr. Albert K. Chapman; M.R. Schweitzer Gallery NYC (acquired December 1963). Estimate $60,000-$80,000John W. Coker & Co. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – On Saturday, January 15, 2022, John W. Coker & Co., will auction antiques and
Political conflicts across Hungary and Poland have started to bleed into museums and galleries. How will this year’s political manoeuvering bolster – or diffuse – a host of unpopular decisions? ADVERTISEMENT As far as election slogans and vote-winning policies go, art and culture are rarely high on the political agenda. While those in the arts
CNN — Each year, over one million people visit Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian alps, famous for its Romanesque Revival style and Gothic details, including vertical limestone towers and turrets topped with deep blue pointed roofs. Once home to a famously introverted Bavarian monarch known as “the fairytale king,” the idyllic architecture –
Walt Disney landed in France just days after the first world war ended. The 16-year-old was working as a driver for the Red Cross and spent nine months touring the country, stationed in outposts including the outskirts of Versailles and the Hôtel Régina (opposite the Louvre). When he was not shuttling military officials around or
VIP Preview at TEFAF Maastricht 2020. TEFAF Delighting in the splendid press previews of TEFAF Maastricht 2020 was one of the highlights of traveling to write about the global art world. Its earlier shuttering was the catalyst for the shutdown of the global art world. With heavy hearts, the European Fine Art Foundation announced today
Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what sounds like fantasies from the pioneering animation of Walt Disney Animation Studios were in fact the figments of the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The Met’s first-ever exhibition exploring the work of Walt Disney and the hand-drawn animation of Walt Disney Animation Studios will examine
Why have Jewish art dealers been so pivotal in creating the European art market as we know it? That is the question that an online symposium organised by London Art Week (from today until 10 December) will delve into. “Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market c.1850-1930” will run over three evenings, starting with Charles
Courtesy of: Masterworks.io Investing in multimillion-dollar paintings usually requires having a sizable amount of capital. Privately-held startup Masterworks is set out to change that. Masterworks is making the world of art a little less exclusive by offering everyday investors the chance to own a fraction of these high-priced investments with a much smaller amount of
The art press currently seems remarkably focused on the high prices fetched for work by a small set of young artists. Many of these high-priced works were previously purchased for far less. A $10 million Peter Doig painting once sold for $30,000 (or some such figure). And works by other young abstract-process-based painters that sold