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The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers’ Prices July 3, 2008 - February 22, 2009: In 1772, a group of Philadelphia master cabinetmakers published Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work, a 36-page book listing furniture forms and their decorative variations, retail prices for furniture in mahogany and walnut, and the wages to be paid to the journeymen who made the furniture. This exhibition features furniture that is delineated in the book of prices, including three large case pieces with the three types of tops, or "heads", from least expensive to most expensive: flat, pitch pediment, and scroll pediment. Art review: Martin Puryear sculptures at SFMOMA The sculpture of Martin Puryear, surveyed in an exhilarating show that opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, situates itself like no other contemporary art. Puryear, 67, belongs to a generation of American artists much concerned with where...
Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture.
Architecture: Treading Carefully but Not Timidly in a Civic Masterpiece News that the New York Public Library has hired Norman Foster and his London firm for the job is one of a string of shrewd decisions by the library that should put our minds at ease.
Picasso Work Is Withdrawn From Sotheby’s Sale A Picasso Cubist painting that was to have been a star of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art sale has been abruptly withdrawn from the auction.
Museums Fear Lean Days Ahead Across the country museum directors are bracing for the effects of an economic crisis that could change everything from exhibitions to endowment funds.
Live Cinema/Anita Sieff: Films October 3, 2008 - January 4, 2009: This installment of Live Cinema focuses on the video work of Italian artist Anita Sieff. Inspired by filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Luchino Visconti, Sieff explores in non-linear narratives the interactions between disparate characters bestowed with allegorical qualities. 012 New Greek and Roman Galleries Director Philippe de Montebello offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the treasures featured in the spectacular New Greek and Roman Galleries, opening April 20. Natasha Wescoat
Deep Hollow series - to get a larger size display of this print and also look through new recommendations for this Natasha Wescoat gallery art giclee, click the artists inscription connected with the small copy. You can also go over purchasing, conservation framing and print dimension consumer guidance for this artists poster. Natasha Wescoat is one of the foremost selling artists and has many other art images similar in characteristics to "Deep Hollow series", analyze the artist archive for other fine art posters. Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man, c.1492 - to check out a full size view thumb nail as well as look at supplementary detail relating to this Leonardo da Vinci gallery art work, click the artists caption atop the thumbnail display. Get buying, conservation framing and size recommendations for this fine art art work. Leonardo da Vinci has many more great wall art reproductions in addition to "Vitruvian Man, c.1492", review more of this artists framed and unframed wall art giclees. Pictured in Blue and White: English Ceramics of the Nineteenth Century August 31, 2008 - December 31, 2008: Among the some thirty pieces in this installation are a number with views of Philadelphia landmarks including the Dam and Water Works on the Schuylkill River, the Bank of the United States and the Philadelphia Library Company building. |