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Incollect, an online sales platform and marketing-branding agency for 300-plus high-end antiques and modern design dealers, has redesigned its website with a sophisticated, contemporary look and innovative features that focus on promoting the best dealers, designers, technology, and design. Among…
The San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show will return October 27-30 for its 35th year, making it the oldest and most prestigious show of its genre on the West Coast. It will be a must-see event for collectors and…
In a new project called Building Our Islands, photographer John Maher aims to encourage people on the Western Isles to engage with the islands’ built environment through workshops, art, and photography. This project is being held as part of Scotland’s…
Today, the most important exhibition of African American art ever to be mounted in France, and potentially all of Continental Europe, opens in Paris at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. The Color Line is comprised of almost 200 works…
Art experts Dr. Bendor Grosvenor and Jacky Klein spotted two paintings of interest in the dining room of Haddo House in Scotland on the Art UK website. Upon visiting, they discovered these paintings to be a previously unknown landscape attributed…
In August, a powerful earthquake in the Lazio region around Rome caused at least 4.5 billion dollars in damage, according to Italy’s prime minister. 297 people died, and many ancient structures, artifacts and relics were damaged or destroyed. Today, rescue…
Pace HK presents the work of five Asian artists exploring the influence of Zen thought on the visual language of contemporary art in an exhibition named after the Buddhist saying, “Where Can The Dust Alight.” The exhibition will run through…
London’s leading fair for 20th century art, design and decorative arts is back, and better than ever! This year, there will be 66 galleries in the new tent, including 14 newcomers, and noted dealers Magen H Gallery, Modernity Sweden, Peter…
Frieze London and Frieze Masters open this week (October 6-9) at the Regents Park in London. It’s their 14th and 5th editions, respectively; the fairs will bring together more than 300 of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries from 30…
Saturday, 01 October 2016 01:26

Stolen Van Gogh Paintings Recovered

Two works by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam more than a decade ago were recovered by Italian law enforcement from a house affiliated with a drug syndicate near Naples. The discovery sheds…
Complex collaborative partnerships, materials, and processes have shaped the modern interior, from domestic and retail spaces to exhibition displays. Focusing on the decades from the 1920s to the 1950s, attention is given to the synthesis of design elements within each…
Saturday, 01 October 2016 01:18

Heroes Tour—A Tribute by Doug Meyer

For the past year, Doug Meyer has dived into the lives of some of the earliest creative individuals to die of AIDS and AIDS-related causes. He has created a collection in the form of busts, statuettes, intaglios, and multi-media sculpture…
The inaugural exhibition “Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd-6th Centuries,” has opened at the China Institute Gallery’s new space at 100 Washington Street in lower Manhattan. More than 100 ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy and painting,…
Saturday, 01 October 2016 01:13

Penn Station Reborn

In1963, the grand Beaux Arts entrance to Pennsylvania Station succumbed to a wrecking ball; Madison Square Garden was erected in its place and the train system that serves 650,000 riders a day is still entombed beneath. This week, Governor Cuomo…
Indiana Jones, meet Gary Vikan. As he helped to build the extensive collections of historic art and relics at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore during his nearly twenty year tenure as director, Gary Vikan witnessed backdoor trades, blatant thievery,…
Blockchain technology has the potential to improve transparency, copyright, and ownership issues. A blockchain acts as a public database on which transactions are permanently recorded, is highly secure, and eliminates the need for a third party to verify a transaction,…
After a two-year renovation and reinstallation, ten galleries on the museum’s second floor are opening to the public on October 2. Objects representing more than 2,000 years of art from India, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia will…
Thursday, 29 September 2016 20:07

Design and Art Books to Read Before 2017

One of the best ways to keep current with industry trends and methodologies is to read. Here are twenty books on design and art, covering topics such as interior design, social media, graphic design, fashion photography, and more.
On September 30, the modern collections of the National Gallery will be back on display in the renovated and expanded East Building. The three years of renovations have resulted in 12,250-square-feet of reconfigured and new galleries and a roof terrace.
In 1883, Alma-Tadema painted a portrait of his friend and engraver Leopold Löwenstam as a wedding gift; the portrait depicts Löwenstam at work. Exhibited on several occasions, it was last shown publicly in 1913 and art historians have long considered…
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