LOS ANGELES – Bidders nationwide and around the world responded enthusiastically to the collection of Jack and Ellen Phillips of San Diego, California, which blasted through its overall estimate by more than one and a half times, totaling $1.487 million and earning white glove status in an online sale held January 15-16 by Andrew Jones Auctions.
DETROIT (AP) – A Detroit museum displaying a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh as part of a showing of 80 of his works said it shouldn’t be pulled into a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar artwork.
MIAMI — Tropic Bound, South Florida’s first international biennial artists’ book fair, arrives in February in the Miami Design District. This event will showcase the unique artistic genre known as artists’ books. These complex creations bridge the worlds of art, craft and literature, telling stories — sometimes without words — and represent a broad variety of cultural traditions. Featuring more than 60 exhibitors from the United States, Mexico, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Egypt, Tropic Bound will take place Feb. 16-19 at the rooftop garden at Paradise Plaza. The fair is free and open to the public.
VENICE, Italy (AP) – When most people think of “carpaccio,” they think of the thinly sliced raw beef appetizer made famous by Venice’s iconic Harry’s Bar. Few people know that the dish is named for a lesser-known Venetian, the Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio, because of the intense red hues he favored. Carpaccio the painter has recently received more attention outside his native Venice. In November, the National Gallery in Washington inaugurated the first retrospective exhibit of his work outside Italy. The show, Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, is set to close in Washington on Feb. 12 and move to Venice’s showcase Palazzo Ducale on March 18. The Washington exhibit includes two Carpaccio paintings that left Venice for the first time in more than 500 years.