…and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to some big changes to the site in 2010!

Speculation has it that Mr Wynn’s arms were last seen not akimbo, but rather digging into his deep pockets.

Steve Wynn, last seen by OMNP perusing the bargain bin aisles (to him) at Art Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach, was apparently whetting his appetite for a much bigger purchasing splash last week.
The New York Times [...]

The consistent banter of “once in a lifetime” type opportunities that are  used to describe star lots at the major Old Master painting auctions can lead to one taking comments from Christie’s and Sotheby’s with a grain of salt. In the case of some of the spectacular successes during last week’s sales in London  however, [...]

BY MEGHAN  MCGAVIN

Idris Khan (British, b. 1978), an artist working primarily in the photographic medium, introduces us to a new dimension of work in the practice of appropriation with his carefully superimposed photographs. While peeling back each gossamer layer of his  works, short stories about the original object, or artist, reveal themselves. Far from a [...]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has always done a great job of putting together large scale exhibitions that appeal to the both the appeal to the masses as well as the  connoisseur.  Their most recent triumph came by of “The Milkmaid”, its recently concluded showcase of Jan Vermeer’s iconic painting along with several other works [...]