By ALICE THORSONThe Kansas City Star “I am particularly fond of kitchens,” Gupta says. “When I was a child, I considered it a place of worship, a kind of temple.” Yet his eye-catching display, measuring a whopping 12 1/2 feet high by 35 feet long, would be at home in a high-end restaurant supply store, […]
LONDON, March 25: A Dubai-based Pakistani art collector regained possession of two of his rare paintings by an Indian artist, Francis Newton Souza, costing an estimated $600,000 when a British court after a four-day hearing recently ruled in his favour in a case of theft. Talking to Dawn here Mr Kurta said that he had […]
Georgina Adam and James Knox | 19.3.08 | Going to London in a suitcase: Huma Mulji’s Arabian Delight sold to Charles Saatchi for $8,000British collectors Charles Saatchi and Frank Cohen were among those who bought DUBAI. Arabian Delight, a stuffed camel squashed into a large blue suitcase, on show at the Art Dubai fair, has […]
Source: Washington Post TOKYO (Reuters) – Last November, a set of abstract gunpowder drawings by a Chinese artist fetched $9.5 million at an auction in Hong Kong. The top result for a painting by a Japanese artist at a Tokyo auction that same month: $140,000. Art prices around the world are going through the roof, […]
This Tang dynasty earthenware figure has an unusual number of coloured glazes Colin Gleadell rounds up the latest developments in the art market Jemima Khan, Mario Testino, and a chap called 3D from the band Massive Attack were among the buyers who made a bee-line for East End gallery Stolen Spaces last week for the […]
Gargi Gupta / New Delhi March 18, 2008Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art has signed an agreement to sell an approximately 9.4 per cent stake to Abraaj Capital, Dubai-based private equity firm, for Rs 80 crore. Osian’s valuation, going by this transaction, is Rs 840 crore. Arif Masood Naqvi, vice chairman and group chief executive officer of […]
16 Mar, 2008, 1515 hrs IST, PTI NEW YORK: A group working to advance the cultural heritage of Indians in the US along with a Hindu organisation has threatened to hold a demonstration unless the Christie’s Art Gallery here stops the scheduled auction of several paintings of noted artiste M F Husain on March 20. […]
Source:- modernartobsession.com So we at MAO have been wrongly accused of being a total Debbie Downer, too negative, and most shockingly, the team captain of the “Art Market Death Watch Cheerleaders” (AMDWC). Et tu, DinkyWinky? So just to prove we at MAO can be just like Fox News “Fare and Balanced,” today we bring to […]
Source:-theblindswimmer.com Tie Ying. The Long March 01, 2006. 46 NYC MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES JOIN TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART SATURDAY, MARCH 15 TO MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2008 Over 100 artists will present their works at 60 special events at 46 museums and galleries during the fifth Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), March 15 to […]
Source:- Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 (AScribe Newswire) — Dixon Doll, Chair of the Asian Art Commission and the Asian Art Museum Foundation, the dual governing boards of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, today announced the appointment of Jay Jie Xu as the museum’s new Director. Mr. Xu (pronounced shu) will begin his […]
