Share: Richard Brooks, Arts Editor The collector Charles Saatchi is to go into direct competition with the Tate by opening what he believes is the world’s biggest private gallery of contemporary art. With 15 large rooms spread over three floors and covering 50,000 sq ft, the new Saatchi gallery in Chelsea, west […]
Share:Source:- indiaenews.com From correspondents in New York, United States, 12:30 PM IST Christie’s South Asian modern and contemporary art sale here March 20 will feature works of leading 20th and 21st century artists from various countries in the region, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The sale will focus on prime examples of many different movements, […]
Share:Source:- thehindubusinessline None of existing funds are governed by SEBI rules Kolkata, Feb. 13 Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has said that “art funds” are characteristically nothing but a “collective investment scheme or CIS” as defined by the relevant provisions of the SEBI Act, 1992, which essentially requires registration with SEBI and needs […]
Share: By Thomas Kostigen SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Art collectors are served well by the World Wide Web, allowing them to better compare prices, histories and upcoming auctions, and to buy and sell on the world market at the click of a mouse. But the agent of change may be the product of change […]
Share:Source:- Artdaily Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Oil on canvas. 72.5 x 91 cm. Painted in 1890 at Auvers-sur-Oise, De la Faille 820. ZURICH.-Swiss police reported the theft of four Impressionist masterpieces from the Buehrle Foundation museum this past Sunday. The works are worth around $164 million. The works are: Claude Monet’s “Poppies near […]
Share:PURCHASED: Horse Stable – Early 17th-century Japanese six-panel screen. Price: approximately $300,000. Gabriella CoslovichFebruary 13, 2008 A private benefactor has given the National Gallery of Victoria its biggest ever cash donation — a staggering $6 million towards a new fund for buying Asian art. Australia’s richest lawyer, Allan Myers, QC, a long-time gallery supporter and […]
Share:Source:- Artes Mundi Artes Mundi 3 exhibition opens next month on15 March 2008 at National Museum Cardiff. It features major works from the nine artists shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 3 Prize – Lida Abdul, Vasco Araújo, Mircea Cantor, Dalziel + Scullion, N.S. Harsha, Abdoulaye Konaté, Susan Norrie and Rosângela Rennó. In addition, the exhibition […]
Share:Source:- Art Daily Salvador Dali, Sentimental Colloquy, 1944, oil on canvas, 27.3 x 41 cm. Salvador Dali Museum, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Right Society, 2007. Collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida. ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg presents Dalí & Film, the first exhibition examining the profound […]
Share:Source: Art Daily Pablo Picasso, “Tete de Cheval” (1962). ZURICH.-Two Pablo Picasso paintings worth around $4.5 million were stolen from a museum in eastern Switzerland, according to Swiss authorities. The works are titled “Tete de Cheval” (1962) and “Verre et pichet” (1944) and were stolen this past Wednesday from a cultural center located in the […]
Share:Source:- Art Daily Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 – 1851), Regulus, 1828, reworked 1837, oil on canvas, Tate, London, Bequeathed by the Artist, 1856. © Tate, London. DALLAS, TX.-The Dallas Museum of Art presents the largest and most comprehensive retrospective ever presented in the United States of the career of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), […]
