Share:By ARTINFO NEW YORK—Specialists at banks and auction houses are saying that in the face of a volatile stock market and a housing slump, many collectors are looking to take out loans against their art, the New York Sun reports. “Art now is seen as a definite asset class which is traded,” said Caroline Sayan, […]
Share:The art collection of Yves Saint Laurent, who died last month, is to be auctioned off in what experts are describing as “the sale of the century” potentially worth half a billion euros. By Henry Samuel in Paris It is set to be the biggest single-owner art auction in history, and includes paintings by Goya, […]
Share: Bold leadership and an ambitious curatorial vision have vaulted the Peabody Essex Museum into a spot among the country’s best Could the Peabody Essex Museum be the Boston area’s most exciting art museum right now? It’s a question nobody would have asked five or 10 years ago. But a string of excellent shows — […]
Share:SAMILA WENIN Most of us are aware that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, not many truly understand one of the most important messages an image carries – the way a person, the photographer, sees the world.To open the long-awaited Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Bacc), the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Office of […]
Share:July 2008Melbourne Art Fair, Australia’s premier international visual arts event returns to the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens, Melbourne from 30 July – 3 August 2008. Over 3,000 contemporary artworks including Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, Photography to Digital Media and Video, will be showcased under one roof at the 11th […]
Share:Interview by Farah Nayeri July 23 (Bloomberg) — Anish Kapoor, the India-born contemporary sculptor, will get a stand-alone exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts in late 2009, RA Secretary and Chief Executive Charles Saumarez Smith said.The show of Kapoor’s work, filling all of the main-floor galleries, will look back at the evolution of the […]
Share:London (PTI): Noted Indian artist M F Husain, who is in self-imposed exile following attacks by fundamentalists over his controversial art works, has said he would return home after finishing his current series of paintings in Dubai and London.“India is my country and nobody prevents me from returning to my country. I will return as […]
Share:Ashoke Nag, ET Bureau KOLKATA: Original handmade prints created by famed artists are climbing on the price front. In a recent auction, Somnath Hore’s and Chittoprasad’s prints have fetched Rs 2 lakh-plus. This underlines the perception about the print medium, which was ignored a few years back, is now drawing closer attention. Mentionably, print prices […]
Share:Shanaya LalkakaTuesday, July 22, 2008 23:59 IST With a quirky style, Jayesh Sachdev is one of the most innovative of the few pop artists in IndiaAt the age of 21, in the hopes of honing in on his artistic interests, Pune based Jayesh Sachdev set out to Singapore to pursue a course in visual communications. […]
Share:JOSEPH BABCOCK Not many family albums are exhibited in the Tate Modern, but then again, Amrita Sher-Gil and her kin are no ordinary dynasty. Rather, an exceptional legacy is displayed in Amrita’s paintings, their creativity echoed alongside her father Umrao’s photography (a novel medium in the early 20th century) and nephew Vivan’s retouched images of […]
