http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:53:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/feed-logo.png http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en 144 27 Art Magazine Arcadja - Events, News, Exhibits about Art - http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en Share and Enjoy: ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/12/top-lots-of-the-week-9-and-10-contemporary-art/ Sotheby’s will offer a painting by the French artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in an auction of 19th-century art after a Dutch museum returned the work to the heirs of a Jewish banker persecuted by the Nazis. “Jeune femme a la fontaine” (Young Woman at a Well) is estimated to fetch as much as 1.2 ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/12/nazi-looted-corot-painting-to-be-auctioned-by-sothebys-in-june/ Arts Journal’s Culture Grrl reports that director of the Metropolitan Museum, Thomas Campbell, has appointed Jennifer Russell as one of two associate directors of exhibitions at the museum, joining Carrie Rebora Barratt. Russell, who worked for the Met from 1993 – 1996, is currently the deputy director of exhibitions, collections and programs at MoMA. Russell ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/12/moma%e2%80%99s-jennifer-russell-moves-to-the-met/ LOS ANGELES  – Warner Bros. is turning Leonardo into an action-adventure hero. No, not DiCaprio, but Da Vinci. The studio has picked up a treatment titled “Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever.” Think “National Treasure” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” by way of “Clash of the Titans.” Da Vinci is best known as ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/12/da-vinci-painter-inventor-and-now-action-hero/ Asher Edelman, a former corporate raider who became an art dealer, has been sued by Emigrant Bank for more than $3.1 million after allegedly defaulting on some loans, including one to buy a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti. Edelman said in an interview that he plans to repay amounts owed “very shortly.” The case is an ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/12/art-dealer-edelman-sued-over-loans/ One of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch more than $150 million at auction when it goes on sale in May, Christie’s announced Tuesday. L.A.’s ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/11/150m-brody-collection-up-for-auction/ A record 263 dealers will offer paintings and other works worth $2.7 billion at the world’s largest art and antiques fair, anticipating the return of the billionaire big-spenders. The 23rd annual edition of the European Fine Art Fair — Tefaf — in the Dutch city of Maastricht will be the year’s first test of demand ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/11/2-7-billion-dutch-fair-lures-collectors-as-confidence-rises/ The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has announced its first international acquisition of British artist Antony Gromley’s “Reflection II.” The piece will be installed on March 15 at DeCordova’s Sculpture Park located just outside of Boston in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The acquisition, which was made possible through the Hamilton James Sculpture Park Acquisition Fund, coincides with ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/11/antony-gormley-acquisition-at-decordova-sculpture-park/ American celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has signed a deal with private equity firm Colony Capital LLC in order to clear her large debt and retain rights to her works. Leibovitz, 60, known for her images of celebrities that have appeared in magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue, had fallen behind on repayment of a ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/11/leibovitz-strikes-deal-to-clear-her-debt/ One of the UK’s most promising young documentary photographers, Thomas Saunderson, will exhibit new work which seeks to reasses the aesthetics of the documentary genre. Saunderson’s digitally manipulated images of torture are an illustration of ‘a disobedient way of seeing’. They are a probing reinterpretation of the photographs original framing calling into question the imposed ...]]> http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/2010/03/11/eye-saw-aesthetics-and-ethics-exhibit-to-open-in-london/