Online Buying Soars as Almost Three Quarters of Art Collectors Go Online
Art Antiques Design Blog
New research released this week by Hiscox has revealed the growing trend for buying art online - with 71% of art collectors surveyed having bought artwork without seeing it in person first but based only on a jpeg image...
It's winter in Palm Beach and the fronds on the palm trees along sunlit Worth Avenue gently sway to the rhythm of the tropical breeze. A "Boca" blonde eases her Mercedes SUV into a parking spot, relieved to have found it. Emerging in a pink Lilly Pulitzer wrap dress, she rushes into a nearby gallery to finalize delivery arrangements on a birth gift. She's late meeting her interior designer at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show 15 minutes away in West Palm Beach.
Vision and Collaboration Create an Instant Classic
Tony Bradfield & Kevin Black of Tenenbaum & Co.
The creation of a truly unique and defining piece of jewelry most often happens when the stars align and the talents of those involved can be harnessed to create what is defined as a new American masterpiece.
Things are changing in Palm Beach these days. It was more than 16 years ago when fair impresarios David and Lee Ann Lester brought the International art and antiques world to South Florida when they founded the Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair.
Dialogs LA: A Curated Lectue Series at the LA Art Show
Media Contac: Agnes Gomes Koizumi
Panelists include: Irving Blum, Don Thompson, Richard Polsky, Blake Byrne, Clifford Einstein, Bruce Helander, Peter Mays, Weimei Chen, Isabel Rojas-Williams
Near the ancient town of Dali in Yunnan Province in Southwest China is the towering massif called Cangshan that contains extraordinary marble deposits noted for their unique twisted striations and explosive combinations of colors.
From simple pleasures to ultimate luxuries, the Dallas International Art, Antique & Jewelry Show offered all who attended, the opportunity to purchase their very own piece of history. The show welcomed thousands of dealers, designers, and collectors from the Dallas/ Ft. Worth Metroplex, and from around the world..
The following is an adaptation of chapter seventeen, entitled "Costume Painting" in author Bill Rau's newest publication, "Nineteenth Century European Painting from Barbizon to Belle Epoque.
For millennia, humans have utilized seating furniture. The earliest surviving three-dimensional depiction of a chair is a clay model dating back to approximately 4750-4600 BCE; the oldest surviving chair belonged to the Egyptian Princess Sitamun (Cairo Museum) and dates to approximately 1400 BCE.
In one of Europe's biggest art thefts, a burglar stole seven artworks by major artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet—collectively valued by dealers at more than $25 million—from an art museum in Rotterdam early Tuesday.
