Today ScreenUsed launched a new website with an offering that is different from yet compliments their existing business of selling original props and costumes. Production Art Gallery (www.productionartgallery.com) features original movie and television-related concept art, storyboards, costume designs, matte paintings, blueprints/schematics, photographs, publishing & merchandising art, and rare advertising art. [Read more…]
Monsterpalooza Convention & Event May 29-31 in Burbank, CA
“Monsterpalooza – The Art of Monsters” will be held at the Burbank Airport Marritt Hotel & Convention Center May 29-21, 2009. This 3-day event is “dedicated to the art of monsters and the artists that create them”. [Read more…]
Art Dealers Plead Guilty to Crimes Involving Misrepresentation & Fraudulant COAs
Rick Spector of Stairway to the Stars directed me to an interesting article on the Maine Antique Digest website about art dealers who have plead guilty to a scheme involving their passing off art with manufactured origins, fictitious artist names and identities, and fraudulent certificates of authenticity (COAs). [Read more…]
The Babz Chula Lifeline for Artists Society – Charity Auction
Per an article on Straight.com (see “David Duchovny, Gabrielle Miller, Matthew Good, and other stars lend helping hand to Babz Chula“) and babzchulasociety.org, many in the entertainment industry have donated events and items to raise funds for Vancouver actor Babz Chula to help her pay for medical bills related to her fight with cancer. [Read more…]