Share:ON THE very day that a study by Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, sold for £17.3m ($34.4m) in Christie’s biggest contemporary-art sale, a group of British artists fired the opening salvo in what could prove a drawn-out battle. Should their heirs be entitled to royalties on such sales? Led by Damien Hirst, Britain’s most […]
Share:Stocks-hit investors cosy up to art4 Jul, 2008, 0146 hrs IST,Shailesh Menon, ET Bureau MUMBAI: Investors may not be willing to touch equities with a barge pole, but they still appear to be open to art as an alternative asset class. Contrary to popular belief, the ongoing bearish phase in the stock market has not […]
Share:Kishore Singh / New Delhi July 04, 2008, 0:55 IST At a time when the art market is booming, India has lost out chance to send enough invited works for the Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize supported by the Singapore Art Museum. Only one work instead of three will represent India at this […]
Share:July 3, 2008 in The “Art World” | Tags: art, art prices, art world, Globe and Mail, Mike Collett-White | There are enough “recession-proof,” super-rich buyers to push soaring prices for the best works of art still higher, experts predict, but the picture is less rosy at the lower end of the market. And in […]
Share:By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) – There are enough “recession-proof”, super-rich buyers to push soaring prices for the best works of art still higher, experts predict, but the picture is less rosy at the lower end of the market. And in a world where perception is everything, values for even the world’s most sought-after artists […]
Share:KOLKATA: Anish Kapoor has stolen the show among Indian artists at the Sotheby’s Evening sale of Contemporary Art in London. In the feverish bidding that took place, an untitled sculpture from 2003 by Kapoor sold for £1.945 million (about $4 million) after being hotly contested by three bidders. This price represents a new auction record […]
Share:By Marie Fowler Independence Day is at hand, and next month, India, too, will celebrate throwing off British rule. Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through the end of August, is a splendid retrospective of the work of the “Father of Modern Indian Art.”Bose (1882-1966) […]
Share:Sonia Kolesnikov-JessopSavvy collectors are heading to Burma. Like a swarm of insatiable locusts, Asian-art collectors have been feasting on contemporary Chinese works for several years now, pushing prices ever higher at recent auctions. In Southeast Asia, aficionados have focused on Indonesian and Vietnamese artists, often praised for their technique. Now, with those prices rising out […]
Share:The Jakarta Post The Indian art market is reaching new heights. Pavan Kapoor visits the subcontinent to find out what is fueling the boom.Indian art has formally arrived in its role as a financial asset. This is apparent as I walk into the pulsating Habitat Center, the 5000 sq feet complex in New Delhi which […]
Share: Samanth Subramanian The pages of a comic book drawn in a particular era become valuable when its original readers grow up and start making enough money to buy them, says Satyajit Chetri Hyderabad: In any economy, but particularly in this one, it’s tempting to hand your money over to a man who confidently says: […]
