H. R. Dietrich, Collector of Colonial Arts, Dies at 69
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Mr. Dietrich was a philanthropist and collector of early American decorative and fine arts who often made his treasures available for public viewing.
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Harvey S. Shipley Miller, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, plans to donate his collection of contemporary works to the museum.
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Friedrich Christian Flick, a former playboy turned art collector, has lent 2,500 works to the Hamburger Bahnhof, a gallery in a former railway station in the heart of Berlin.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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Some 350 boxes stuffed with receipts, photographs, letters and other records chronicling the history of the Leo Castelli Gallery are being given to the Smithsonian Institutionâs Archives of American Art in Washington.
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Merci beaucoup, Frederic. The Statue of Liberty hosted a party Sunday honoring its creator, sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, for the 100th anniversary of his death.
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A collection of ceramics owned by Lord Attenborough goes on display in a Leicester gallery.
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The auction house Sotheby&#39;s said that it would sell contents from the Kennedy house in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and from other family homes in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia.
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It is not easy to fit Paul Robeson in a box, but the Criterion Collection has done its best with âPaul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist.â
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W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian Institutionâs National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself, The Washington Post reported. The painting, by Burton Silverman, a New York artist whose portraits have appeared on the cover of Time and in The New Yorker, hangs in the patronsâ lounge of the museum. Mr. West, 64, whose last day on the Smithsonian payroll was Monday, also spent more than $250,000 over four years on travel and hotels, the Smithsonian has confirmed. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Rules Committee, have asked for independent investigations of the expenses. The Smithsonian said it did not comment on former employees. Similar questions about personal spending by the Smithsonianâs secretary, Lawrence M. Small, led to his resignation last March.
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Henry Wellcome, an American who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, collected anything associated with human or animal health with the idea of eventually creating his own Museum of Mankind.
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A massive auction of Star   Trek props, costumes, models and Vulcan tapestry culled direct from   Paramount&#039;s studio vaults was announced Thursday by Christie&#039;s in New   York. Though billed as a 40th anniversary event, the sale, to be held   Oct. 5-7, will feature less of the 40-year-old variety Starfleet stuff,   and more of the Next Generation and beyond variety brands.
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NEW YORK - Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77.    Beene died at his home of complications of pneumonia, according to Russell Nardozza, vice president of Geoffrey Beene Inc...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of âArtemis and the Stag,â below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sothebyâs auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will be on view for six months in the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (the central atrium in the new Greek and Roman Galleries).
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American fashion designer Geoffrey  Beene, whose simple designs made him a department store  favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his Manhattan home. He  was 77.
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Artist Charles Biederman, known for his  geometric paintings and aluminum reliefs depicting his fiercely  held beliefs that art springs from nature, has died, a museum  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Lovers of Kennedy lore will get a rare chance at owning some common possessions of late President John F. Kennedy and his family in an auction of art, furniture and other effects from their homes.