CHICAGO – The Art Institute has announced the opening of the highly anticipated exhibition, “Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings,” on Sept. 13 in Regenstein Hall where it will remain on view to audiences through Jan. 3.
NEW YORK – French artist JR’s epic urban portraits usually focus on the striving, struggling or at least non-famous. Previous projects featured favela residents in Brazil, new immigrants to New York, even random strangers willing to pose in a traveling photo booth and have their faces wheat-pasted over major international avenues, including Times Square. Lauren Lovette, a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet is none of those things, but her presence across a Tribeca building is no less arresting.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) – The car-swallowing hole has been fixed but not forgotten at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. Yellow tape now marks the boundaries of the cavity that became a sensation and put the museum on the map. And instead of a gaping sinkhole driving tourism, now it’s the vintage sports cars crunched by rocks and dirt.
ABERDEEN, Miss. – An original oil on canvas portrait of French fashion designer Coco Chanel done by Andy Warhol sold for $247,000 at a sale conducted by Stevens Auction Co. on Aug. 8. LiveAuctioneers.com provided absentee and Internet live bidding.
BIRMINGHAM, UK – Specialists from Fellows’ watch department have picked more than 500 lots for the company’s monthly watch sale on Tuesday, Aug. 25. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.
DENVER, Pa. – Previews are always especially busy at any of Morphy’s fine and decorative art auctions because of the broad variety of categories represented. By that token, the company’s sprawling Pennsylvania gallery should be buzzing with activity prior to their Sunday, Sept. 13 auction, as the inventory includes 835 lots of premium-quality jewelry, coins, antique clocks, mechanical music and fine and decorative art of every imaginable type. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.Continue reading
CLEVELAND – The antique scientific and technical instruments auction at Gray’s Auctioneers on Sept. 9 features 246 lots of highly collectible instruments, a large collection of which is being sold to benefit the Case Western Reserve University’s Dayton Miller Scholarship Fund. Absentee and Internet live bidding is provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, where the auction catalog is now available.
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – The antiques auction catalog stated there was a rare and valuable “veilleuse” in the next sale. That is a descriptive word a seasoned auction-goer would understand, but the antiques meaning is not in most dictionaries.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – After 150 years at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored skeleton of the Confederate warship CSS Georgia is being raised to the surface one 5-ton chunk at a time.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. government on Thursday formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso valued at $15 million that had been stolen from a Paris museum more than a decade ago and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey.