Westchester Artists

4. August 2010

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Affordable Art Fair NYC Launching First Annual Fall Fair

NEW YORK, NY.- Following the record-breaking sales and attendance at the Affordable Art Fair New York City (AAF NYC) this spring, AAF NYC will launch its first annual Fall event in Manhattan from September 30 – October 3, 2010 at 7W New York ( 7 West 34th Street ). With AAF NYC now occurring twice a year, the fair will provide even more opportunities for emerging art collectors to view and purchase affordable art. AAF NYC Fall 2010 will appeal to both...

4. August 2010

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Set Your Place with Picasso Plates at Bonhams’ First Ever Editions Sale

LONDON.- Bonhams will hold their first ever Picasso Editions Sale featuring ceramics, silver and prints by the most celebrated artist of the 20th century, in Knightsbridge on Thursday 23rd September. The sale offers buyers the opportunity to lay their table with over £100,000 worth of plates, jugs and dishes decorated with vibrant and joyful designs by one of the 20th century's most inventive artists. “Picasso was one of the most important ceramicists of the 20th century because of the newness of his...

4. August 2010

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Advice on Protecting Fine Art Against High Temperatures

NEW YORK (AP).- Temperatures getting a little uncomfortable? Your artwork and antiques are probably feeling the humidity as much as you are. Paintings and works of art on paper expand and contract in response to changes in temperature and humidity, say experts with Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. That can cause surface distortions, flaking paint, growth of mold, staining or decay. It's not only the summer months that pose a threat to your most cherished pieces, either. Furniture and gilded frames can dry and...

4. August 2010

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Exhibition Explores Multiple Cultures and 500 Years of History with Art Honoring the Essential, Sacred Nature of Water

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas,” August 4, 2010 through January 2, 2011. This exhibition explores 500 years of visual cultures and histories of the water deity widely known as Mami Wata (“Mother Water”) through the diverse array of traditional and contemporary arts surrounding her — sculpture, paintings, masks, altars, and more from west and central Africa, the Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States. Beautiful and seductive, protective...

4. August 2010

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Celebrated Scottish Women Artists Star in Bonhams Scottish Sale

LONDON.- Two of the Scotland’s finest women artists, Anne Redpath and Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, are strongly represented in the year’s Scottish Sale at Bonhams on 17 August. Redpath’s beautiful and subtle view of Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Riviera painted in the late 1930s (£60,000 – 80,000) is one of the artist’s first major “hill town” oils rendered in the characteristic chalky palette of the period. Another work from her ‘white period’, ‘Still Life with Michaelmas Daisies’ (£30,000 – 50,000) employs Redpath’s favoured...

4. August 2010

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Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Says the Sun will Wake Up

CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Sky viewers might get to enjoy some spectacular Northern Lights, or aurorae, tomorrow. After a long slumber, the Sun is waking up. Early Sunday morning, the Sun's surface erupted and blasted tons of plasma (ionized atoms) into interplanetary space. That plasma is headed our way, and when it arrives, it could create a spectacular light show. "This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th," said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian...

4. August 2010

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Scientists Say Gulf Diversity Threatened Even Before Oil Spill

WASHINGTON (AP).- The oceans around Australia boast the greatest diversity of sea life on the planet, but the now oil-threatened Gulf of Mexico also ranks in the top five regions for variety of species. And even before the spill, the Gulf was already listed as threatened, according to the latest update of the Census of Marine Life, released Monday. Mark Costello of the Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand, commented that now it seems the Gulf "is more threatened than we thought it...

4. August 2010

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Two Mexican Sites Inscribed in UNESCO World Heritage List

MEXICO CITY.- Mexico has 2 new sites inscribed in the World Heritage List issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Inland Royal Road) and the Prehistoric caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca were voted and declared in August 1st 2010 by members of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee at the reunion celebrated in Brasilia, Brazil. Inscription of Mexican candidatures presented by the National Institute of Anthropology and History...

4. August 2010

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SFMOMA Elects New Members to Board of Trustees, Salutes Three Staff Members

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- At its May meeting, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) elected Yves Béhar as the museum's third Artist Trustee. Béhar joins Irwin Federman, who was also elected as a trustee at the meeting. Board Chair Charles R. Schwab also announced the appointment of Robert J. Fisher as Board President and confirmed the officers of the Board for 2010 to 2011. "These appointments come at a transformative time for SFMOMA. In response to the...