Winston Churchill is best known for his leadership of Great Britain during WWII, and his historic speeches. Yet, few people realize his brilliance as a painter. Normally, Churchill paintings are not sold in the United States. They are usually reserved for sales in the United Kingdom. This Wednesday, April 23, 2008, a Winston Churchill original will be auctioned at Bonhams in New York City. To date this is the sixth Churchill painting sold in the United States over the past twenty years.
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Art and Living is on the art fair circuit, getting you up close and personal with some of the faces and minds behind the world’s greatest art fairs
New York City is still cloaked in her early-spring grayness, but SCOPE New York is going green. The vaunted art fair is kicking off its new Green Initiative by introducing an assortment of eco-friendly offerings to this year’s show: a hybrid VIP car service (courtesy of ZipCar), VIP cards printed with soy ink, and various other environmentally helpful projects. In doing so, SCOPE hopes to inspire global art communities to re-imagine their roles in the preservation of our planet.
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Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
For the last 133 years, Coney Island has been a fabled part of New York and, in a photography exhibit entitled Goodbye Coney Island? on view until April 6th, the Brooklyn Museum offers a history of the storied resort and amusement park that takes us from the 1870s to the present. Far from the echoing screams of the Thunderbolt rollercoaster, miles from the smell of carnival food and the sight of lapping ocean waves, the intimate exhibit quietly reminds viewers of the majesty that once was, still is, and—depending on the outcome of possible redevelopment plans—may be Coney Island.
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Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings:
The Clark Brothers Collect
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
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