Share: TV Santhosh, Living with a Wound I Living With a Wound, paintings of November’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai by Indian artist TV Santhosh, may help the Indian art market avoid the chill of recession By Colin Gleadell Paintings by one of India’s most successful young artists that were made in response to last November’s […]
Share:Edgar Degas, Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, circa 1879-81. Estimate: £9 – 12 million. Photo: Courtesy of Sotheby’s. LONDON.- Tonight’s sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s in London saw 22 works realise a total of £32,564,300 ($46,238,050). The sale was 75.9% sold by lot and 67.7% sold by value and it saw two […]
Share:by Eileen Kinsella The rapid development of a market for contemporary art in the Persian Gulf area is typical of other regional art booms of recent years. Collectors and expatriates focus on work by artists from their respective countries—Iranian buyers snapping up Iranian art, Lebanese patrons buying Lebanese—fueling higher prices and creating international buzz. “Dubai […]
Share: A Digital Photograph from the series “Held Back”2006, By Dubai Artist Reem Al Ghaith Governments in the United Arab Emirates are spending billions of dollars in an ambitious, unprecedented effort to create cultural districts with world-class museums—along with a support system of creators, dealers, and collectors. But many Western art professionals wonder if this […]
Share:Though this article was published on 19th January. Its important to be shared – Aashu Georgina Adam 19.1.09 Issue 198 The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters…” This is what mega-dealer Larry Gagosian told his staff in a tough-talking, if ungrammatical, memo published last November in Flash […]
Share:Financial climate scares off sponsorsBrook Mason 30.1.09 GENEVA. The Swiss company Art Culture Studio has cancelled its sixth annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair, which had been scheduled for 25 May to 1 June at the Manege.Sixtine Crutchfield, Art Culture Studio’s general manager, blamed the financial and political climate for the decision, which was announced […]
Share:Washington, Jan 28: Artists from India and the Indian diaspora are featured in “Shifting Shapes-Unstable Signs” – an exhibition of contemporary art from around the world at Yale University School of Art`s new gallery.Organised by School of Art dean Robert Storr and Jaret Vadera, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidate in the School of […]
Share:Source: Business Standard How organised is the fake business in India? A lot of collectors will be asking themselves this in the wake of the Raza scandal that experts are already calling the Satyam of the art world. On Saturday evening, when 86-year-old, Paris-based artist SH Raza came to Dhoomimal Art Gallery in Delhi’s Connaught […]
Share:A ground-breaking exhibition featuring emerging artists from South Asia will be launched at the new-look Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.Artists currently living in India and Pakistan will make their international debut at the venue in Through Other Eyes: Contemporary Art from South Asia at The Herbert in Jordan Well in the city centre from January […]
Share:Georgina Adam 19.1.09 Issue 198 The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters…” This is what mega-dealer Larry Gagosian told his staff in a tough-talking, if ungrammatical, memo published last November in Flash Art, as the global financial meltdown continued to panic investors, the US recession was officially […]
