Sunday, February 01, 2015
How to turn $5,000 into $5.2M in 18 months
The award for the most compelling market tale undoubtedly goes to the third highest-selling painting, a rediscovered John Constable landscape, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831), that sold for $5.2 million, far exceeding its $3 million high estimate. The consignor had acquired the work at Christie's London in July 2013, and paid a mere $5,300 for it, but then set about getting the work authenticated as a Constable. (See Sotheby's Ratchets Up Price on Rediscovered Constable).
See the whole article by Eileen Kinsella here.
Do you think that the previous owner, who dished this out for $5K, is pissed off that he/she didn't do due diligence?
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Visions of Home
Submission Deadline: February 20, 2015
The Art Connection in the Capital Region (ACCR) invites you to participate in Visions of Home, an exhibition and art placement project presented in conjunction with the Arts Management Program at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University (GMU).
Visions of Home will feature original artwork that embodies the idea of "home". The artwork will be placed within nonprofit organizations that provide affordable housing to underserved communities throughout Northern Virginia. The artwork, selected by the participating nonprofits, will be considered a donation to the agencies for permanent display.
Read the prospectus
The Art Connection in the Capital Region (ACCR) invites you to participate in Visions of Home, an exhibition and art placement project presented in conjunction with the Arts Management Program at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University (GMU).
Visions of Home will feature original artwork that embodies the idea of "home". The artwork will be placed within nonprofit organizations that provide affordable housing to underserved communities throughout Northern Virginia. The artwork, selected by the participating nonprofits, will be considered a donation to the agencies for permanent display.
Read the prospectus
Friday, January 30, 2015
Wanna go to a museum talk tomorrow?
Photoworks: Presence of Place
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
January 24 through March 15, 2015Artist Gallery Talk: January 31, 2015, 4PM
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Museum Hours: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Tuesday-Sunday
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Elsie Hull Sprague Brad Beukema Joe Cameron
Tanguy de Carbonnieres Eliot Cohen Sora DeVore
Rebecca Drobis Saman Michael Far Peggy Fleming
Henry Friedman Sheila Galagan Frank (Tico) Herrera
Michael Horsley Karen Keating Michael Lang
Julie Miller David Myers Christine Pearl
Mark Power Molly Roberts Gayle Rothschild
Sarah Hood Salomon Sonia Suter Grace Taylor
Tom Wolff Alejandra Vallejo Fred Zafran
Judith Walser
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Forty years ago, in a derelict building hidden among the abandoned amusement park rides of Glen Echo Park, four young photographers founded Photoworks with little more than a shared passion for the daily work of seeing, shooting, and printing images of lasting beauty and artistic integrity.
Photoworks: Presence of Place will feature works by past and present members of the Photoworks community, faculty and students who have distinguished themselves by the quality and integrity of their work. This exhibition is in memory of Elsie Hull Sprague, an artist with a MA in Film from the School of Communication, American University.
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
January 24 through March 15, 2015Artist Gallery Talk: January 31, 2015, 4PM
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Museum Hours: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Tuesday-Sunday
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Elsie Hull Sprague Brad Beukema Joe Cameron
Tanguy de Carbonnieres Eliot Cohen Sora DeVore
Rebecca Drobis Saman Michael Far Peggy Fleming
Henry Friedman Sheila Galagan Frank (Tico) Herrera
Michael Horsley Karen Keating Michael Lang
Julie Miller David Myers Christine Pearl
Mark Power Molly Roberts Gayle Rothschild
Sarah Hood Salomon Sonia Suter Grace Taylor
Tom Wolff Alejandra Vallejo Fred Zafran
Judith Walser
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
Forty years ago, in a derelict building hidden among the abandoned amusement park rides of Glen Echo Park, four young photographers founded Photoworks with little more than a shared passion for the daily work of seeing, shooting, and printing images of lasting beauty and artistic integrity.
Photoworks: Presence of Place will feature works by past and present members of the Photoworks community, faculty and students who have distinguished themselves by the quality and integrity of their work. This exhibition is in memory of Elsie Hull Sprague, an artist with a MA in Film from the School of Communication, American University.
Peck on Schwartzberg
DMV artist Judith Peck reviews Deanna Schwartzberg at the gorgeous Art Museum of the Americas:
It
was my pleasure to attend the opening reception of “Primal Connections” a one-person
show by local artist, Deanna Schwartzberg, at the Art Museum of the Americas F
Street Gallery.
It is a deceptively
simple, long, and brightly lit grand hall. Deanna's intensely jewel
colored palette and assured brush strokes lit up the space.
As
curator of the exhibition, “Primal Connections”, Ana Maria Ascano tells us; “Viewing
the art of Deanna Schwartzberg is like reading a favorite poem.” This thought stayed with me as I viewed an
array of paintings beautifully composed, with the artist’s unique understanding
of color and light. These works spoke to
me in an indirect manner, the way poetry does, igniting the mind and senses and
making the artist’s subject matter all the more intense and powerful.
For many years, Deanna has been working with the interconnection of
humanity and the world of nature. She gave an intriguing talk about how she
went from nonobjective painting to finding her voice in paintings that invite
us, the viewer, to discover with her the fluid relationship between body and
nature. In her larger works a powerful
figure merges with an abstracted landscape. The subject matter resonates, and
her color choices are so inventive that we feel we are discovering places we
have been, perhaps only in a dream.
Along with eight large figurative pieces, the artist has an
installation of 28 small painted faces.
The poem by the artist, Primal Connections, is the source of inspiration
for these works. The faces, each have a feminine name for one of the elements: earth,
fire and air. Each one is different and expressive in its own way. Neither happy, sad, scared nor surprised,
they appear to be centered in their own thoughts and feelings and part of the
drama and wonder of the world that surrounds them.
You can contact the museum or the artist directly at
schwartzbergart@verizon.net to find out when tours are available. Hours are by
appointment only.
“Primal Connections”
Paintings by Deanna Schwartzberg
Art
Museum of the Americas F Street Gallery,
1889 F
St NW,
Washington,
DC
Opening Reception Jan 28 Jan28 through March 6, 2015.
Opening Reception Jan 28 Jan28 through March 6, 2015.
Contact; Art Museum of the Americas, 202- 370- 0151, for
appointments and tours.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Why Self-Censorship of Controversial Artwork is Wrong
Read the whole piece by JJ Charlesworth in artnetnews here.Following the shocking events of the massacres and sieges in Paris, a debate has raged over whether or not to publish images of the prophet Muhammad for fear of reprisals, apparently from whichever shadowy fundamentalists might be out there.So, the latest news, that London's Victoria & Albert Museum quietly pulled from its website a reproduction of a 1990 Iranian poster depicting Muhammad, held in the V&A's collection, is dispiriting. Citing the level of “security alert" the V&A has to operate under, a spokeswoman defended that the work, “as with most of our reserve collections, would be made available to scholars and researchers by appointment."
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Broken Wing

It all started in the mid seventies (as I recall), when I was in the US Navy and suffered a shoulder injury which dislocated my right shoulder.
It was "popped" back in, but after that, over the years, it would almost pop out at will, and I even learned how to pop it back into the shoulder socket on my own.
It was immensely painful to do this process, but it was a brilliant flash of pain, followed by muscular pain for a few days afterwards.
Eventually I got so sick and tired of this (it once popped out when I was swimming and I nearly drowned), that I went back to sick bay and began weight training treatment, which essentially involved building up the shoulder muscles and thus keep the darn shoulder bone tight inside the socket.
On December 23rd it decided to make an exit, aided by a fall caused by a small rug slipping on hardwood floors.
And now, after a horrendous MRI, I am told that the injury to the shoulder, close to 40 years ago, has been causing issues with that shoulder, the bones, and eroded a lot of cartilage, and thus needs to go under the surgeon's knife.
4-6 weeks of immobile right shoulder follows, plus 6-9 months of intensive therapy.
It could have been worse... I could have landed on my head or busted my neck... but Feh!
I'm right-handed by the way.... double Feh!
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