From the New York State Museum, the collection features furniture, silver, ceramics and paintings showing the influence of European high style on urban and rural New York. ...
Like the more famous Vermeer, Michael Sweerts was "rediscovered" in the modern era by art historians, yet he lacks recognition among the museum-going public. ...
Albert Shahinian's show brings together living representational artists whose philosophies, inspirations, techniques, and subjects have been influenced by the Hudson River School or its legacy in subsequent...
The museum's fine art collection has grown through other generous donations from artists, museum trustees, directors and prominent figures in the art world....
Joseph Christian Leyendecker's oil on canvas generated a war between eight telephone participants, audience members and absentee bids. The hammer came down at $26,000, just above the low estimate...
While the usual ratio of retail buyers to trade at the auction house is between 25 percent and 75 percent, strong retail attendance which reversed those figures for a 75 percent retail crowd....
Museum director and benefit auctioneer Charles Chiarchiaro commented, "We sold seventy-five percent of the cars we had up for auction. We put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces." ...
The acquisition was funded entirely from Bonhams' own resources, without recourse to external borrowing, and comes just a year after Bonhams merged with Phillips Auctioneers....
Designed by the London firm of Zaha Hadid Architects, the new Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in the city's busiest intersection will become one of the most centrally located contemporary...
If the community helps raise $200,000 by December 31, the foundation will match each contribution dollar for dollar, providing essential funding for the institute's education programs....
The exhibit pays tribute to a bequest made in 1992 to The New York Public Library for the purchase of landscape prints and features more than 100 works by nearly 60 artists....
At a time when nearly 100 Japanese masterpieces from the institute's permanent collection have traveled back to their original home for a one-year, five-museum tour, such a theme seems perfect....