11/10/2008
William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision on View at Manchester Art Gallery (Art Daily)
William Holman Hunt, The Triumph of the Innocents, 1883-4. 15.19 x 9.16 inches. © Tate, London 2008. MANCHESTER.- This autumn Manchester Art Gallery stages the first international exhibition in over 40 years dedicated to the life and work of Pre-Raphaelite master William Holman Hunt.
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11/20/2008
Sotheby's 4.6 Million-Pound Sale Boosts Victorian Art in London (Bloomberg)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The unfashionable collecting category of Victorian art received a boost last night at Sotheby's in London, when the collection of the late U.K. diplomat David Scott sold for 4.6 million pounds ($6.8 million) with fees.
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11/20/2008
A Period of Beauty and Drama: Victorian & Traditionalist Pictures at Christie's in December (Art Daily)
Charles Edward Perugini's (1839-1918) exquisite group portrait of the Countess Granville with her daughters, the Ladies Victoria and Mary Leveson-Gower, on the ramparts of Walmer castle (estimate: £300,000-500,000). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2008.
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11/19/2008
Papandreas’s work is larger than life (Provincetown Banner)
Walking down Commercial Street in Provincetown one might notice Gallery Voyeur in the East End where large portraits are positioned in the windows overlooking the sidewalk, surveying the scene with life-like but exaggerated eyes.
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11/18/2008
How Eggleston’s Trike, Mustaches Glamorized Retro South: Review (Bloomberg)
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The tricycle is famous. It sits on the empty street in front of a Memphis ranch house. Paint flakes off the red-and-white handlebars and the blue seat.
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11/18/2008
The painter who altered Obama's life (Independent)
What can a painting do? Try this. Here's the Rev Jeremiah Wright, in Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, 20 years ago. He's preaching about a picture. It's an image of a woman, who's sitting on the world, bent over, blindfolded, holding up a harp – "bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string... and yet consider once again the painting before ...
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11/14/2008
A&E Dispatch | Pat Graney, Seattle choreographer, wins $50,000 grant (Seattle Times)
Pat Graney, Seattle choreographer, has been named a 2008 United States Artists fellow, and was honored at a celebration Nov. 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
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11/09/2008
Three Centuries of Alluring British Art on Paper at Christie's in December (Art Daily)
Simeon Solomon’s (1840-1905) ‘Pre-Raphaelite’ watercolour A Prelude by Bach (estimate: £200,000-300,000). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2008. LONDON.-
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11/14/2008
Christie's Tightens Payment Rules; Mystery Postcards: Art Buzz (Bloomberg)
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- London-based auction house Christie's International is tightening payment terms for buyers at a time when the proportion of unsold works at auctions is increasing.
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11/11/2008
United States Artists Announces Third Annual USA Fellowships (Art Daily)
CHICAGO, IL.- United States Artists (USA), the national artists’ advocacy organization, today announced the recipients of fifty USA Fellowships for 2008 totaling $2.5 million.
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