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• White House art collection

  
  MadSilence — Authority: 113
  What an incredible opportunity, to decorate your home with some of the world’s greatest artworks.  The White House is now home not just to President Obama and his family, but to the largest collection of modern and abstract artwork ever assembled by a sitting president.The White House is a home, workplace, and ...
  6 days ago

• How to Be an Art Collector

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 154
  Being an art collector requires the desire to own, research, chase down, and buy for the love of art. This can be a very engaging and fulfilling activity and anyone can be an art collector. Here is a short guide and some tips to get you started on this exciting hobby.The first step is [...]
  1 week ago

• Best of the Web #43

  
  Presidia Creative — Authority: 504
  Welcome back everyone, hope you had a good Halloween if you celebrated it, if not, hope you had a great weekend anyways.  In keeping with the season of spookiness, there were a lot of Halloween roundups last week, so we’ve got a few related posts included in this edition of Best of the Web. Aside from the ...
  1 week ago

• Lord Attenboroughs art collection: the battle of New Bond Street

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Lord and Lady Attenboroughs art collection on sale at Sothebys includes a remarkable group of First World War prints.
  1 week ago

• Lord Attenboroughs art collection: the battle of Bond Street

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Lord and Lady Attenboroughs art collection on sale at Sothebys includes a remarkable group of First World War prints.
  1 week ago

• Lehman bequeaths an artistic premium

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  A year ago investors ran screaming from Lehman Brothers assets as the investment bank crumbled. On Sunday they could barely squeeze in for an auction of the firms art collection in Philadelphia. As morbid as it sounds death sometimes creates value for the living.
  1 week ago

• Public Art in Los Angeles Gets Crapped On, Too

  
  Bad at Sports — Authority: 535
  You know, after giving it some serious thought, I think I’m coming to the surprising conclusion that newspaper articles about public art and the public’s reaction to it are my new favorite genre of art news. There’s just so much to chuckle over. Last week, a pair of articles in the L.A. Times told of skeptical ...
  2 weeks ago

• The global art market finds its floor

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy , One Year Later The 2008/2009 art market ended seven years of astonishing price inflation. By the end of 2008, contemporary art suffered a price decline of 27.1 percent, followed by another 4 percent drop in the first half of 2009, according to ArtPrice s new report, Contemporary Art ...
  2 weeks ago

• Becks’ image to appear on new condom range in Spain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, October 22 (ANI): An image of David Beckham will soon be printed on condom packets available in Spain.The pic snapped by Sam Taylor-Wood belongs to the Tears of Eros art collection, which will now be used by Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid to decorate rubber contraceptives. The snap, which shows the soccer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Extraordinary Art Collectors – Herb and Dorothy Vogel

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 154
  Herbert and Dorothy Vogel are extraordinary collectors. The couple has amassed a world-class art collection of Minimal, Conceptual and post 1960s art over the past 45 years. The collection was carefully put together, as the couple had monetary and physical constraints. Mr. Vogel worked as a postal clerk and Mrs. Vogel ...
  3 weeks ago

• San Jose Museum of Art 40th anniversary

  
  miss mardi nowak — Authority: 120
  Ok after some hiccups with outfits... i was told that it was black tie not formal... I had a panic attack... anyway I went how I would normally go, I attended the Museums 40th anniversary. It was a big night! I love here at these events that they have a full bar and there was lots of people drinking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mapping New Yorks Shoreline: The Storied River

  
  The New York Public Library blogs — Authority: 123
  Staff of the New York Public Library recently hand picked a set of nearly 500 images , collected from across our Digital Gallery , composing them as a curated set of images at the Commons on Flickr . They represent the Hudson River Valley through several hundred years of history and complement Mapping New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paintings Insurance inside the UK: What You Ought to Know

  
  BusinessXtras — Authority: 140
  Paintings Insurance: Protecting and maintaining priceless paintings is essential, whether you own a few or many. While your art may be covered under your general homeowner’s insurance policy, it’s also advisable to investigate specialist paintings insurance and art collection insurance created for UK investors ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Obama White House’s Plagiaristic, Silly Art

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 813
  Want to know the Obama Administration’s idea of what constitutes art?  There’s no better place to look than the newly-reconstituted White House art collection.  So what’s there?  How about this gem: Yes, it is boring and banal.  It does look like your three-year-old’s recent construction paper cut-out ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wednesday Clips 9/16/09

  
  Bad at Sports — Authority: 535
  Bob Dylan, "Train Tracks," 2009, from the "Drawn Blank" series. Here’s our midweek summary of this n’ that and other chit-chat happening in the world of art and beyond. *Keith Olbermann gives Christopher Knight “Best Person in the World” status for pointing out potentially communist imagery in ...
  8 weeks ago

• Is buying art financially savvy? Heck no.

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 162
  I went to the opening of a small art collection by Jean Sanchirico and I liked the pieces so much I considered buying one. But is buying art is financially savvy? I chewed on this question (and the free snacks) while inspecting a pastel landscape of a local hillside that I have hiked hundreds of times with my mother ...
  8 weeks ago

• Rare Warhol Collection Stolen

  
  The Outer Box — Authority: 123
  “Police in Los Angeles say a multi-million dollar Andy Warhol art collection has been stolen from a private home in the city,” writes the BBC. “Among the missing works are 10 pieces created by Warhol in the late 1970s depicting famous athletes, including Muhammad Ali and OJ Simpson. “They were taken from the ...
  8 weeks ago

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