The Academy of Art University hosted its most successful emerging art charity auction to date on November 17: the 12th Annual Faculty & Alumni Fine Art Auction. In partnership with Bonhams & Butterfields, the Academy auctioned $180,000 in artwork, which will contribute $90,000 to the university’s Student Scholarship Fund. This fund directly benefits rising students [...]

FineArtPublicity.com - The Vero Beach Museum of Art has announced that their 16th Annual Antiques Show and Sale will be held on January 11, 12, and 13, 2008.
 
The show is hosted by The Friends of the Vero Beach Museum of Art and is considered one of Florida’s most celebrated and enduring displays of antiques with a [...]

U.S. art-investment fund Xiling Group paid a record HK$30.6 million ($3.9 million) for a Ming Dynasty blue-and-white jar at Christie’s International’s Hong Kong art auction. 
The jar, which features 16 boys playing in a Chinese garden, was secured by New York-based art dealer John Berwald after a two-minute competition with a phone bidder. The price, which [...]

With the unemployment rate rising, Fine Art Management Corporation has been chosen to recruit for an expanding niche job — cruise ship Art Auctioneer. This is the first time that a West Coast office has opened to meet the growing demands of new ships and an expanding business.
 
Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd. has commissioned Fine Art [...]

Art represents different things to different people. To some, it is “an adventure of the mind.”1 To others, it’s “a signature of civilization”2 or “a lie that makes us realize the truth.”3 And still to others it is “an instrument of moral propaganda.”4 Art may be any of these, but when you consider it a [...]