Christie’s landmark Rothschild Masterpieces auction series — the first of its kind in North America — finished in triumphant style, totaling $62,656,516 and illustrating the continued global appeal of ‘le Goût Rothschild’ along the way. The series continues in Paris this Classics Week featuring seven sales, from 2–22 November, each containing lots from the Rothschild
A festival promoter told Delbert Anderson he didn’t present as Indigenous enough. The trumpeter and his group, DDAT, showed up to the State Fair of Texas in what he calls “the Native American section” — filled with dancers in traditional garb, among other signifiers. DDAT, for their part, donned suits. “They immediately assumed that we had some
How to Read European Decorative Arts, the latest volume in The Met’s How to Read series, illuminates European artistry and ingenuity in decorative arts from the High Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution through forty exemplary objects. I spoke with curator and author Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide about the categorization of fine and decorative arts, the role of
An all-star extravaganza of outstanding art spanning four centuries, “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection” is eliciting broad appeal among visitors attending the new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. So many famous names adorn the list of artists as well as subjects in this show, a social media
Field research in ancient Rome Ramsey says she will use the funding from the scholarship to support a research residency at the CRETA ceramics centre in Rome from September 18 to October 22. “As part of my field research, I plan on taking tours of the ancient Roman sewer, the Cloaca Maxima,” she explains. “According
One of the most influential figures in European modern culture never set foot in Europe. Katsushika Hokusai, like all subjects in self-isolated Edo Japan, could not have left the archipelago if he wanted to, and his publishers could not export his prints of Kabuki actors, flowers and Mount Fuji. But a few years after his
William Adolphe Bouguereau’s “Bergère (Shepherdess),” 1888, oil on canvas, had provenance to two landmark Twentieth Century collectors as well as extensive publication history. It sold for $325,000, the highest price of the sale ($500/700,000). Review By Madelia Hickman Ring; Photos Courtesy Heritage Auctions DALLAS — Heritage Auctions’ June 9 Fine European Art Signature auction offered
The first thing Stéphane Breitwieser steals from Belgium’s Art & History Museum is an index card. Folded in half and set inside a partially empty display case, it reads, in French, “Objects Removed for Study.” The museum contains one of the largest collections of art and antiquities in Europe, but Breitwieser immediately recognizes that, for
After 33 years on Worth Avenue, Select Fine Art is closing its doors with a retirement sale. Cara Broderick opened the gallery specializing in 19th- and 20th-century European and American fine art and antiques in 1990 at 339 Worth Ave. in Via Mizner. It has been in the same location under her ownership all these
The well-known painting popularly known as “Whistler’s Mother,” featuring an austere older woman sitting in profile, dressed in black with a white lace bonnet, has not been seen in Philadelphia in 142 years. It is now visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a small exhibition titled “The Artist’s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia.” The painting,