| Forbes.com Art Watch
October 22, 2009 | | | | | Must-read Art, Antiques and Collectibles News | 
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P.S. 1 Appoints Former Curator as Its New Director
Carol Vogel, The New York Times In naming only its second director ever, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center has looked within its own ranks and selected Klaus Biesenbach, a former curator who has remained an adviser, to lead the institution. He succeeds Alanna Heiss, who founded P.S. 1 in 1976 and retired last year. The appointment, which had been rumored for several months, was approved by the board of trustees on Wednesday afternoon. Click here to continue reading...
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| Sneak Peek: Christie's Miller-Plummer Photo Sale
A private collection offers rare gems from Robert Mapplethorpe and Heinrich Kuehn.
Raquel Laneri, Forbes
Two years ago, a photography sale that boasted such rare masterworks as a "vintage" print of Dorothea Lang's iconographic Great Depression portrait of a migrant mother flanked by her two children, or Heinrich Kuehn's hazy, painterly "In Bacino di San Marco, Venezia" would have likely fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars. Today, these photographs--part of the extraordinary works in the Miller-Plummer collection being auctioned off at Christie's on Thursday--are estimated to fetch between $40,000 and $60,000 each. Pricey, but a considerable steal compared with boom times. Click here to continue reading... |
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| The Brillo-Box Scandal
The discovery that a respected curator produced a set of Andy Warhol Brillo boxes after the artist’s death, passing them off as originals, has created a quandary for dealers, collectors, and scholars—including the experts in charge of authenticating the artist’s work.
By Eileen Kinsella, ARTnews
In 2007, when the Swedish newspaper Expressen revealed that 105 Brillo boxes had been fabricated in Malmo, Sweden, in 1990—three years after Warhol’s death—and subsequently passed off as 1968 "originals" made for a retrospective at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the news sent shock waves through the art world. Now the collectors who spent thousands—in some cases hundreds of thousands—of dollars on those boxes are anxiously awaiting final word from the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board about the status of their "Stockholm type" Brillo boxes, as they have come to be called. Click here to continue reading... |
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
November 11-15, Philadelphia, PA
pmacraftshow.org
Craft is an interesting term, one that is both historically low-brow and yet has also been recently reappropriated by many arts practitioners. Notably "craft" is often something associated with the "feminine" and is, in turn, a term being used by contemporary women artists, specifically in traditionally "feminine" media. This year marks the 33rd edition of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Craft Show, which is run by the Museum's Women's Committee and the Craft Show Committee in order to generate funds to purchase works of both art and craft for the museum. The show features a wide variety of crafts from glasswork, to basket-weaving, and much more.
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| Art Watch Web Site of the Week | |
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ArtsJournal
artsjournal.com
 | Arts Journal is a wonderful aggregate of online media about the arts. Although the Web site's layout is a bit ADD-inducing, all the articles are organized into categories such as Visual Art, Culture, Publishing, Theatre, Media, and so on, which makes it incredibly user-friendly, if not easy on the eyes. In terms of aesthetics, the site appears much more like an online news site than an arts publication; function over form, so to speak. However, if it isn't already, this site should be one of your first stops on the Web for current events in the arts. Furthermore, ArtsJournal features a number of excellent blogs, including Terry Green's notable Modern Art Now (MAN), an reliable source for news and criticism. |
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