Share: The economic meltdown couldn’t stop British artist Damien Hirst busting records at his recent auction, but is the rest of the art market as robust? asks Simon de Burton Those hoping that Sotheby’s auction of 223 lots of freshly minted works by the art world’s enfant terrible Damien Hirst would be a flop — […]
Share:Source: pr-inside Ravenel Art, the leading art house in the Asia region, is excited at joining the growing Hong Kong market with its first Modern and Contemporary Asian Art sale on December 1 As Hong Kong gears up to become Asia’s pre-eminent art market, it will stage an art auction week over the last week […]
Share:Source: Art Daily Nathan Noland, Mario Kart DS, The Star Cup, Wynn, Las Vegas, Monday July 31, 2006, 0:34 a.m. ‑ 0:52 a.m., 2006. Matthew Pillsbury (American, born in 1973) Photograph, archival pigment ink jet print. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. James N. Krebs Purchase Fund for 21st Century Photography © Matthew Pillsbury, courtesy of […]
Share:Source: luxury-insider.com On 30 November and 1 December 2008, the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre will play host to Christie’s Autumn sales of Asian Contemporary Art. The sale includes more than 420 works valued in excess of US$30 million from acknowledged contemporary masters from China, Japan, South Korea and India. More than 30 works […]
Share:Source: news.dphotographer.co.u Delaye | Saltoun is delighted to announce its new program of international contemporary art, opening with London’s first solo exhibition by Indian artist Samit Das.Presenting an in-depth investigation into the inexorable growth of the cities of Bombay, Kolkata and Delhi, Das’s subjective archive of archaeological and architectural fragments is a series of conceptual […]
Share:Berlin – Berlin is locked in art fever, with four powerful exhibitions going ahead including work by Jeff Koons and Paul Klee. At the Mies van der Rohe-designed New National Gallery, US contemporary artist Koons is parading a glittering array of huge sculptures and paintings.On a lower floor is a superb selection of work by […]
Share: Sotheby’s, the auction house, has become the latest victim of the financial crisis after failing to make the high estimates it predicted for its contemporary art sales. By Urmee Khan Last Andy Warhol’s series of 10 skull paintings sold for £646,750 Photo: EPA The sales made a total of £43.9 million, down £11.4 million […]
Share:By Katya Kazakina and Scott ReyburnOct. 20 (Bloomberg) — The annual frenzied sales at London’s Frieze Art Fair evaporated this year as collectors felt no pressure to make expensive purchases instantly, dealers said.People are shell-shocked by the world economy,” said New York gallerist Marianne Boesky, who had a booth at the five-day fair, which ended […]
Share:The following interview was made with Marek Claassen, the director of artfacts.net and served as a starting point for an online research and a series of interventions with the purpose of giving higher visibility to the participants of Periferic 8. The results of this intervention can be viewed at . Zsuzsa Laszlo: How do you […]
Share:I would really like to see the response to the auction market in the coming few weeks. Frieze has bought all the art frenzy on their feet once again with a much improved fair.” – Aashu Maheshwari Works by big names were still selling: Subodh Gupta’s Still Steal Steel #9, 2008, at Hauser & Wirth […]
