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Let JustLuxe answer your questions. 2009 Luxemont All rights reserved. en-us marketing@luxemont.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:35:48 PST 142 18 http://www.justluxe.com http://www.justluxe.com/images/jl_logo_rss.gif http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-247020.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-247020.phpArts and Culture: An epic masterpiece by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the highlight of the season's major art auctions, is estimated to fetch up to $12 million stars in Christie's highly anticipated Post-War and Contemporary Art sale in New York on November...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-246953.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-246953.phpNews and Trends: In times gone by, there existed a lively tradition of commissioned musical composition. Wealthy nobles ordered music exclusively written for them. This long-lost tradition is now experiencing a renaissance in a completel...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-246813.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-246813.phpArts and Culture: Whether you are a oenophile or just like coffee table books, you're going to want to Into the Earth: A Wine Cave Renaissance, a hardcover book written and photographed by Daniel D'Agostini with Molly Chappellet. Into the ...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-246795.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-246795.phpArts and Culture: The 1800 Tequila Essential Artists series celebrates a dynamic range of original artwork on a unique and unexpected medium -- bottles of 100% Agave Silver Tequila. Up-and-coming artists from New York to Hawaii were invited to submit...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-246735.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-246735.phpEvent: Named one of the five most complicated watches ever made, Breguet's Marie-Antoinette is a sight to behold for anyone that considers themselves a fan of complex timepiece movements. And now, for the first time since its completion, the reprod...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-246723.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-246723.phpArts and Culture: Just as the dust was settling on the relocation of Gap founder Donald Fisher's contemporary art collection to a new wing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fisher died from of cancer at his San Francisco home. He was 81. ...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-246237.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-246237.phpArts and Culture: The collection of late filmmaker Ismail Merchant of Merchant Ivory fame will be sold at Christie's in London on October 7th. The urbane, Indian-born producer, winner of several Academy Awards, passed away in 2005. The auction will o...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-245889.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-245889.phpArts and Culture: As I have stated before: Every work has a provenance, but the full provenance of every work is not necessarily known. Now before you begin to panic about the provenance of a work you own please keep in mind that frequently a work's...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-245186.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-245186.phpArt and Collectibles News: The Vered Gallery in East Hampton, New York, has taken an Andy Warhol portrait of Michael Jackson off the auction block. The 30-by-26-inch portrait was originally slated to sell via a silent auction by July 12. The art ga...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244990.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244990.phpArts and Culture: This is an interesting topic to think about since every work has a provenance (history of ownership), but the provenance of every work is not necessarily known. Important works, created by artists who have always been c...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-244992.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-244992.phpArts and Culture: Shopping and art viewing in Santa Fe are just primo, with more than 200 galleries and more than a dozen museums. One of my favorite things to do is to cruise the promenade at the Palace of the Governors (ca 1600) where the Native Am...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-244614.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-244614.phpArts and Culture: What do the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNN, BusinessWeek, and the Economists all have in common? Each of these popular highly regarded sources of news and information receives updates regarding the art market from Artp...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244425.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244425.phpArts and Culture: Once again this past month's sales results have shown that fresh works, with a high degree of quality and reasonable estimates, are still selling for exceptional prices. What we have also witnessed are those less than stellar works...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244416.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244416.phpArts and Culture: I've always loved the work of Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. As a post-impressionist artist he sought to distinguish his work from the popular art movement of his predecessors, but an examination of his life experiences also reveals muc...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244163.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-244163.phpArts and Culture: There have been a number of recent articles on art market hedge funds. It is always interesting to see that in difficult financial times, more financial "gurus" shift gears and try to make money in the art world. These people shoul...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-243890.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-243890.phpArts and Culture: Young and on the rise, artist Cole Sternberg is heading to southern California for his next show. And if you know what's good for you, you'll get there if you can. Born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in Saratoga, Californ...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-243783.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-243783.phpArts and Culture: The catalog for Sotheby's 19th century sale in New York arrived in the gallery and I wondered if something had gone wrong...it was so thin. No, this was not a mistake, there were only 116 lots in the major 19th century sale -- coul...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-243677.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-243677.phpArts and Culture: Art lovers will appreciate the concept behind The Few Gallery, which offers only a select number of an artist's work. As artists of the moment come and go, The Few Gallery offers super rare, exclusive, limited edition art...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-243351.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-243351.phpArts and Culture: Once you have an understanding of what the artist's actual signature looks like, then it is important to know what subject matter or style an artist is, or has become, famous for - what we call their signature image/style. Was the ...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-243131.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-243131.phpArts and Culture: Chanel's quilted bag has become legendary. To celebrate, Chanel created a traveling exhibition showcasing 20 international designers take on the famous bag in a traveling exhibition in countries all over the world, including the Uni...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-242518.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-242518.phpArchitecture: The extreme contrast from the crisp poetic lines of the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to Taliesin West located in Arizona's Sonoran desert is not surprising considering the architect for both projects, Frank Lloyd Wright, was greatly...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-242484.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-242484.phpArts and Culture: Glass artist Jon Kuhn has created a luxurious $1.2 million Kuhn-Bosendorfer grand piano, the first in a limited edition series. The piano has been a year and half collaboration between the world's foremost cold glass scul...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-242435.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/feature-242435.phpArts and Culture: So now you might want to know - what is the difference in value between a signed and unsigned painting by an artist? Initially, it is important to know if the artist normally signed his works. If so, and you have your choice betwe...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-242095.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-242095.phpArts and Culture: Nature and art lovers alike will love the realistic paintings by artist Denette Schweikert. A Florida native, Denette captures all the beauty and reality of her natural surroundings, as she says, "The prime focus of my l...http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-242072.phphttp://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/arts/article-242072.phpCelebrity Art: The Celebrity Vault is the premiere source of artwork for all things celebrity. Located in the exclusive neighborhood of Beverly Hills, the Celebrity Vault has become a favorite source with both collectors and A-listers fo...