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 […]
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 itself: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
When it comes to Chintan Upadhyay’s clones, there’s more where they came from Manju Sara Rajan “It’s not my baby,” says Chintan Upadhyay. “I function like a DJ, constantly putting things together,” says the artist. Looking around the 35-year-old’s western suburb studio (one of several) in Mumbai—an unremarkable apartment in an unremarkable far-flung neighbourhood—you’d be […]
Moumita Chakrabarti Earth Synergy: An Indo-Korean Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, a joint venture of artists of the two culturally oriented countries, Korea and India, brought together 67 artists who presented more than 100 brilliant pieces of ceramic works. The seed for this was first sowed when Kristine Michael, a contemporary artist and co-curator of […]
