The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2009

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2009

Arts of Pacific Asia.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Asian art in New York: Despite the cancellation of the Haughtons' International Asian Art Fair in New York, the city has much to offer collectors of Asian art this month While Brian and Anna Haughton made the decision to cancel the...

Sotheby's.(CURRENT)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The Asia Week auctions at Sotheby's include Chinese ceramics and works of art on March 17 and Indian and Southeast Asian works of art and paintings on March 18. The highlights of the latter sale are primarily Indian paintings: an oil on canvas...

Christic's.(CURRENT and coming)(art auction)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The fuller schedule at Christie's--Japanese and Korean works of art, Chinese jade and works of art, and Southeast Asian art, along with a couple of single-owner sales--will certainly excite collectors. The main event is sure to be the auction...

Bonhams.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Bonhams will hold one Asian art auction during the week--Japanese works of art on March 19. The highlight is the hanging scroll at right depicting the snow-covered peak of Mount Fuji rising above dark clouds and mist against a shimmering gold...

Exhibitions.(CURRENT and coming)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Several exhibitions are also happening at galleries and museums in New York during Asia Week. One is the China Institute's remarkable Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, Third Century BCE to First Century CE, which...

Trench art: many of the objects crafted from scrap metal in the trenches during wartime display a remarkable level of sophistication.(CURRENT and coming)(From Swords to Plowshares: Metal Trench Art from WWI and WWII)
March 1, 2009... Long popular among collectors, trench art has received an increasing amount of scholarly attention in recent years. This month an exhibition opening at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, entitled From Swords to...

The Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht is showing Italian Renaissance masterworks acquired by Dutch collectors.(Maastricht and beyond)(Palazzo: Collecting Early Italian Art in the Netherlands (1900-1940))(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The relatively small city of Maastricht (estimated population: 120,000) abounds with concerts, exhibitions, lectures, and special events timed for the massive influx of international collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts who come for the...

The Belgian town of Maaseik is hosting figures from the terracotta army of Xi'an.(Maastricht and beyond)(The Terracotta Army of Xi'an: Treasures of the First Emperors of China)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... One of the bonuses of Maastricht during the crowd-filled fair is its proximity to so many other wonderful European locations. High-speed trains mean that Paris is under three hours away (Thalys offers discounted rates for those heading to or...

Aachen goes Dutch for TEFAF with a solo exhibition celebrating seventeenth-century artist Jacob Adriaensz Backer.(Maastricht and beyond)(The Great Virtuoso from Amsterdam: Jacob Adriaensz Backer)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The German city of Aachen (which shares its airport with Maastricht) reveres its history as the ancient capital of the Frankish kingdom, a legacy proudly on view at Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in Aachen Cathedral and at the Gothic city hall...

Antwerp revels in the grotesque with an exhibition of works by Goya, Redon, and Ensor.(Maastricht and beyond)(Francisco de Goya, Odilon Redon, and James Ensor)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Visitors to this Flemish city can not only enjoy its sixteenth-century guild houses and historic city hall in the Grote Markt and the Gothic Cathedral of Our Lady (Onze-Lieve Vrouwekathedraal) with its magnificent panels by local hero Peter...

Brussels pays homage to the House of Savoy as Italy turns 150.(Maastricht and beyond)(From van Dyck to Bellotto, Splendor at the Court of Savoy )(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... The Belgian capital showcases its artistic legacy in a circuitous form this season with an exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts (Palais des Beaux-Arts) in collaboration with the Vlaamse Kunstcollectie and the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. The...

The BADA fine art and Antiques fair begins only a heartbeat after TEFAF ends.(Maastricht and beyond)(British Antiques Dealers' Association )(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... Over one hundred members of the British Antiques Dealers' Association exhibit their antiques, fine art, and even contemporary silver and paintings at the Duke of York's Headquarters, off fashionable Sloane Square in London, at the end of March....

Dealer profile.(ANTIQUES)(James Elkind)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... In 1979 a Barnard College student named Grace Gold was walking down Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side when she was struck and killed by a falling piece of a terracotta window lintel that had broken loose from the Regnor, a...

The new collector: old master and nineteenth-century drawings.(Julius Held)
March 1, 2009... Executed in a variety of mediums--pen and ink, graphite, chalk, crayon, ink wash--many drawings are preliminary studies for finished paintings or other works, including sculpture, architecture, decorative objects, and stage design. As such,...

So during the weeks that [President] Arthur lived in General Butler's old home he generally came to the Executive Mansion every evening after dinner, and made a thorough inspection of the offices and state apartments and living rooms above them. Night after night he would go from room to room ... giving orders to change this and that according to his own taste.(Chester Alan Arthur)(Editorial)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... William Henry Crook, Memories of the White House: The Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt, comp. and ed. Henry Rood (1911) When James A. Garfield died some eighty days after he was wounded by an assassin's bullet in 1881,...

American studio ceramics at mid-century: an important private collection gives the ceramists of the studio craft movement the prominence they deserve.(Philip E. Aarons)
March 1, 2009... Mourning the loss of aesthetic purity in the modern age, Susan Sontag once wrote that "[I]n a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage." (1) There are countless...

Harbor & home: furniture of southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850: years of investigation pay of in a groundbreaking exhibition at winterthur.
March 1, 2009... In October 1955 the Boston Herald decried the sale of heirlooms from a late seventeenth-century house in Duxbury, Massachusetts, that had descended in the family of John (1599-1687) and Priscilla Alden, the Pilgrim lovers immortalized by Henry...

Red, white, and Tiffany blue.(White House's interior design)
March 1, 2009... The ambitious transformation of the White House by Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994), which began in 1961--from a hotel-like assemblage of department store reproductions to a living museum of fine American antiques--was so greatly admired that...

The spirit Innovation: Wedgwood in the nineteenth century.
March 1, 2009... The Wedgwood ceramics manufactory, which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year and is one of the oldest potteries functioning today, has been the subject of numerous monographs, exhibition catalogues, journal articles, and even a novel....

Timepieces of timeless beauty from the Horace Wood Brock Collection.(Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection)
March 1, 2009... Horace Wood "Woody" Brock (Fig. 3) is not a typical collector. The founder and president of an investment advisory firm that assesses risk in the international economy, he embraces a wide range of intellectual interests that include economics,...

Exhibitions symposiums lectures.(EVENTS)(Calendar)
March 1, 2009... ARIZONA Phoenix Phoenix Art Museum: "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein"; March 15 to June 14. * * "Medievalism: Fashion's Romance with the Middle Ages"; to July 5. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles J. Paul Getty...

March 2009.(TRAVEL GUIDE)(Directory)
March 1, 2009... ALABAMA Huntsville TWICKENHAM ANTIQUES, Located in the Railroad Station Antique Mall, 315 Jefferson Street, N., Huntsville, AL. Now in inventory are KY, TN AL, NC and SC antiques and a large assortment of American coin silver...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
March 1, 2009... March 6-8 Alexandria, VA. 13th ANNUAL ANTIQUES IN ALEXANDRIA. 60 nationally recognized dealers. Special events include: gala preview party honoring Sen. & Mrs. John Warner, Thursday, March 5, 7 to 10 p.m. ($125); guided show tour with arts...

Boston needlework: Bonhams first New York auction of American furniture and decorative arts yielded a rare eighteenth-century American canvas-work picture at a great price.(END notes)
March 1, 2009... We were prepared to pay considerably more, so were happily surprised, " says American needlework dealer Carol Huber about her successful bid on this charming Boston canvas-work picture, offered at the first auction of American furniture and...