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,
DALLAS — Achieving the highest price in Heritage Auctions’ Fine European Art Signature Auction on June 9 was William Adolphe Bouguereau’s (French, 1825-1905) “Bergère (Shepherdess),” an oil on canvas composition painted in 1888 that sold for $325,000, including premium. The painting’s provenance included two “Museum Makers,” having previously been in the personal collections of both
A look at the luxe designs of five exhibitors at the May art show. TEFAF New York is far from the largest show on the art fair calendar, but you wouldn’t know that from the crowds that flocked to the event’s May 11 invitation-only preview at the Park Avenue Armory. Contemporary jewelers and dealers brought
Italy is poised to slash VAT rates on art imports to 5.5% in an effort to turn the country into a major competitor in the global art market. Italy currently applies a reduced VAT rate of 10% on art imports, which is higher than those in France (5.5%), Belgium (6%) and Germany (7%). The proposal
NYCxDesign, a design festival held each May in New York City, wrapped up its 11th edition last week with a strong array of group shows across boroughs — in Soho showrooms, artist studios and backyards in Brooklyn, vacant office spaces in Chinatown and galleries in between. Though officially billed as a weeklong festival beginning May