6 January 2009, 3:59 pm
Historic Mount Vernon, the home of the first president, welcomes Inauguration visitors in January with 20 percent off adult admission. Visitors must print the coupon from Mount Vernon's Web site: http://visit.mountvernon.org .... Read More »
6 January 2009, 8:57 am
A video recently posted on Sotheby's website, Contemporary Art Market: A Candid Look from the Inside , features a cast of five---the auction house's contemporary art team---looking chastened as they candidly discuss the disastrous November sales but try to calm market jitters by assuring sellers tha... Read More »
5 January 2009, 3:57 pm
Jim Zarroli , a business and economics reporter for National Public Radio (he's their Madoff man), did a segment today on museums' financial difficulties, with an emphasis on the National Academy situation.... Read More »
4 January 2009, 9:35 am
Joanne Scott, “Ice,” acrylic on canvas, at Chaney Gallery in Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Art on display at area galleries during January. I think I feel a little shellshocked now that the bulk of the holiday eating is done.... Read More »
4 January 2009, 3:26 am
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - With more than 100 museums and public monuments to explore, not to mention some 50 live theaters and close to a dozen parks, there's always something to do in and around our nation's capital. That's why a trip to Washington is always so darn exhausting. Fortunately, you don't hav... Read More »
2 January 2009, 1:25 pm
The art market is often described as the last unregulated financial market in the world. It has remained stubbornly resistant to almost all efforts to bring transparency to its operations, which still mainly function on the basis of highly personal relations and often secretive transactions.... Read More »
2 January 2009, 11:38 am
It's impossible to write about the year in the visual arts without acknowledging the world economic crisis. Financial giants have fallen, and we wait to see who or what is next. The art world, like every other system based on the exchange of goods and currencies, has been affected by the recession.... Read More »
1 January 2009, 10:11 pm
When it was quietly announced on Dec. 17 that this spring?s International Asian Art Fair would be canceled, many began to wonder about the fate of other art fairs.... Read More »
1 January 2009, 9:13 pm
Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited. Painted wood fragment from a sarcophagus. Middle Kingdom. 12th Dynasty, 1980-1801 BC. Egypt. Preserving the footboard, the rectangular section is decorated with a central false door centered by a pair of wedjat eyes.... Read More »
26 December 2008, 7:45 pm
NEW YORK.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) , a non-profit organization comprising the world’s leading photography art dealers, has announced that Stephen Bulger, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, has been elected as AIPAD’s next president.... Read More »
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