Does Money Grow on Art Market Trees? Not for Everyone

"... his art sells well. But not all boats have lifted with the tide. Prices for the work of a variety of artists, including some top names like Larry Rivers, Eric Fischl and Francesco Clemente, have declined or stayed flat at auction in recent years, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: New York Times
On: 05/30/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/


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Christie's Asian Art Sales Fetch $98 Million

"Mr. Zhao said he will display the work at his private museum in Beijing. The contemporary art auctions followed Christie's sale of Château Latour wine on Friday, the first day of the auction house's spring sales. All lots sold, bringing in almost HK$60 ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Wall Street Journal (blog)
On: 05/30/11
Website: http://blogs.wsj.com/


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The week Britain bounced back

"Record prices for LS Lowry and Stanley Spencer claimed the headlines of last week's 20th-century British Art auctions in London as Christie's posted the highest ever total for a sale in that category – £17.9 million. By Colin Gleadell 5:24PM BST 30 May ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Telegraph.co.uk
On: 05/30/11
Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/


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Art review: 'Tim Burton' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"'Tim Burton,' the big, poorly organized traveling show from New York's Museum of Modern Art that surveys the genesis and development of the Hollywood director's distinctive visual style, opened Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It should ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 05/30/11
Website: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/


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Italy's Largest Bank Becomes An Art Patron

As UniCredit has expanded through Europe, the bank has tried to become a leader in contemporary European art, with an active acquisitions and commissioning program (which includes loans to museums), a new €150,000 prize connected to the Venice Biennale, and a busy exhibition space at a flagship UniCredit branch in central Milan. [Read Full Article]

Published By: International Herald Tribune
On: 05/28/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/l

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Antique Chinese Painting Becomes A Metaphor For Taiwan-Mainland Relations

"The 660-year-old scroll, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, is considered one of the masterpieces of Chinese painting ... For decades a crucial section of the scroll has been sitting in a museum in mainland China, while the majority of the painting is on display at Taiwan's National Palace Museum. Next week, the museums on both sides of the Strait of Taiwan will bring the sections of the scroll together for the first time in 360 years." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Independent (UK)
On: 05/27/11
Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/

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The Pieta Hanging Above The Fireplace: Is It A Real Michelangelo?

A painting of the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus, a family heirloom now owned by a Buffalo-area man, has long been known to be a copy of a Michelangelo sketch. Until recently, scholars agreed that the painting was a copy, possibly by a student. But one historian is convinced that the canvas is one of only a few extant Michelangelo paintings on cloth - and he's beginning to convince some of his colleagues. [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/29/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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Whistler's Mother? When And How Did Artworks Start Getting Titles?

Giving a name to a work of art is, historically, a relatively recent phenomenon, and it is even more recent that artists provide the title. ... No one knows when titles by artists became standard practice," though it certainly wasn't common during, for instance, the Italian or Dutch Golden. [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Wall Street Journal
On: 05/28/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com/

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Chateau Latour, Chinese Art Snapped Up in $106 Million Auction

"'The art market tends to follow wealth and the greatest wealth is being created in Asia,' said Magnus Renfrew, director of the Hong Kong International Art Fair, which ended last night. Dealers are watching the auction after a HK$3.49 billion marathon ..." [Read Full Article]


Published By: Bloomberg
On: 05/29/11
Website: http://www.bloomberg.com/


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A First Look At SFMoMA's Expansion

"My quick reaction is that the addition is less deferential -- in same ways to its benefit -- than it lets on, or would like to easily admit, or than it has seemed to some critics and observers. The block-like addition is sliced or folded back in a few places. But in scale and flinty personality, the new building is likely to thoroughly outmuscle the old one." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 05/27/11
Website: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/

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Time For The Venice Biennale Again

"Competition for attention will be tough this time around: 89 nations are participating, up from 77 two summers ago. A third are setting up their shows in small buildings dotting the Giardini, a Napoleonic park on the city's eastern edge; the rest are staking spaces in the city's historic shipyards or in buildings nearby. Nearly 40 art foundations and private collectors are also organizing separate exhibits citywide." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Wall Street Journal
On: 05/27/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com/

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Enormous Statue Of John Paul II Has Romans Up In Arms

"The crescendo of outrage grew so rapidly that Rome's traffic cops had to be deployed to keep a 24-hour watch to ward off potential vandalism until video cameras could be installed on surrounding lampposts." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/27/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/


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Artists' Studios As Artwork (In Miniature)

"Artist Joe Fig 'interviewed 50 established and up-and-coming artists in their studios, turning 20 of those encounters into minutely observed replicas of the artists' paint-spattered worktables or even the entire studio space depicted in miniature.'" [Read Full Article]

Published By: Christian Science Monitor
On: 05/26/11
Website: http://www.csmonitor.com/


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US Museums Scramble As Russia Bans Art Loans

"Russia's actions are the result of a ruling in a U.S. District Court last summer that Russia must restore a trove of religious books and manuscripts to Chabad, a prominent international ministry based in New York City. Despite a U.S. law and diplomatic assurances to the contrary, Russian officials have said they fear art shipped to American museums could be seized as collateral." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 05/26/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com/

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What, Exactly Are Museums?

"It has become a cliche to say that museums are today's churches--special places for contemplation, separate from day-to-day concerns; conversely, there's an argument that museums should aim to be commonplace, part of normal life. It is intriguing that museums were once talked of as places that reinforced cultural hegemonies, but now they are more often seen as democratising access to art." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/26/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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Graffiti Artists Having Tough Time With The Law

"Law-enforcement officials around the country are prosecuting graffiti artists with harsher sentences than ever, pushing for felony charges, real prison time and restitution payments as they seek to wipe graffiti from the streets. At the same time, the art world and corporations are embracing the form like never before." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Wall Street Journal
On: 05/26/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com/

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Big Fight Over Two Paintings

"One of Europe's wealthiest and most fractious families has returned to feuding mode after the son of the Spanish art collector Baroness Carmen Thyssen took her to court in a battle over two paintings - valued at £5.2m - by Goya and Giaquinto." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Guardian (UK)
On: 05/25/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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Los Angeles Modern Auction's Offerings Getting Better Each Sale

"A rare Robert Rauschenberg Combine from 1958, a collection of William “Billy” Haines custom designs, and a Calder painting are among the many highlights in the upcoming LAMA June 26, 2011 Modern Art & Design Auction. Each of these highlights has come ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Art Daily
On: 05/27/11
Website: http://www.artdaily.org/


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Botero, Brazilian works drive record art sale

"Strong demand for Brazilian abstract art and works by Colombia's Fernando Botero propelled Sotheby's to its best-selling auction of Latin American art with more than $21.6 million in sales. Botero's painting "A Family," which fetched $1.4 million, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Reuters
On: 05/26/11
Website: http://www.reuters.com/


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A love story filled with fashion and art

"The film hinges on the auction of the couple's considerable art collection, which took place after Saint Laurent's death in 2008 at age 71. The art collection included museum-caliber paintings from Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Mondrian. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By:Boston Globe
On: 05/26/11
Website: http://www.boston.com/


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Test: Is It Art Or Is It Child's Play?

"To test whether people really mistake paintings by professionals with those produced by children and chimps, researchers at Boston College showed art and non-art students pairs of images - one by an Abstract Expressionist and one by a child or animal. Their survey results, released in March, revealed that a clear majority of participants in both groups liked the professional paintings more and judged them as better." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Globe & Mail
On: 05/25/11
Website: http://www.theglobeandmail.com

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Whitney Breaks Ground On New Home

"Today, we begin to create the Whitney of the future, an aspirational space where contemporary artists can realize their visions and audiences can connect deeply with art." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/25/11
Website: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/

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LA As Center Of The Art World? How Odd

It "seems, at first, like an unwitting irony. So does proposing that a center can be 'distinctly horizontal'--i.e., decentralized. It's either an unwitting irony, or it's very LA." [Read Full Article]

Published By: New York Observer
On: 05/24/11
Website: http://www.observer.com/

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Hong Kong Art Fair Reaches Out Into the World

"Auction houses are getting into the act too. Christie's is the most prominent among them, and has a casual partnership with ART HK to hold its spring auctions in the same venue, at about the same time. From now until June 1 at the convention center, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: NY Times
On: 05/25/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/


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Why Warhol Is Its Own Market

"Why such market-mania for Warhol? Why not Rothko, Newman, Nauman, or Judd? Why not Rosenquist, Kusama, Hesse, or any other first-rate big name?" [Read Full Article]

Published By: New York Magazine
On: 05/22/11
Website: http://nymag.com/

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Are Museum Blockbusters Dead?

"The consensus among museum professionals and exhibition organizers is that the large-scale exhibition is here to stay, 'as long as the public continues to attend and as long as the museum needs the exhibitions for its financial balance.'" [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/19/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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A New Generation Of British Artists?

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4584060251453949149"The reign of "the concept" in modern British art is finally over: long live "the object". As some of the former rebels of the notorious Young British Artist movement are accused of selling out to "the establishment", a new generation is taking their place, flaunting an altogether new aesthetic." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Observer (UK)
On: 05/22/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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Top Met Museum Curator Named Director Of Frick Collection

"Ian Wardropper, currently chairman of the Met's department of European sculpture and decorative arts, "is a safe choice for a museum steeped in the past, and whose trustees tend to resist change."' [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 5/20/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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Tulsa Indian Art Festival is this weekend

"'TOGETHER WE ARE ONE' is the theme of the 25th Annual Tulsa Indian Art Festival, Tulsa, Oklahoma -- May 20-21-22, 2011 at Central Park Hall at Expo Square, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Artists from around the United States will have booths in this juried art show, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By:Tulsa Native American Times
On: 05/19/11
Website: http://nativetimes.com/


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Rumor Confirmed: Frieze Art Fair Coming To New York

"There have been rumours about the London firm making a move into Manhattan over the past two years, but the organisers struggled with the logistical issue of finding a big, and convenient, enough location. Randall's Island, which is situated on the East river, is "good because you can drive. It's basically ten minutes from the Upper East Side." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/18/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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Company Offers Share Of Its Future Profits To Keep Barnes Collection Where It Is

"Argyrol Pharmaceuticals promises that an injection of cash from its future revenues--10% of profits--could be a cure for the Barnes Foundation's financial difficulties, which first prompted the relocation." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/17/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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Banff this summer anyone?

"Canada's unofficial summer mecca of the arts comes alive this year with everything from the inauguration of a brand new outdoor amphitheatre and the Alberta premiere of a successful new opera by Filumena creators John Estacio ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Calgary Herald
On: 05/15/11
Website: http://www.calgaryherald.com/


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Who Is Bruce Bushey?

"Collingwood based Bruce Bushey is an artist who loves and embraces wildlife and the natural world around him.  His fondness, no, his adoration for all the flora and fauna he experiences is apparent in the way he brings his emotions to canvas with a warmth of tone and a gentleness of touch to his lines and the shapes he creates." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Artistically Connected
On: 05/18/11
Website: http://www.artisticallyconnected.com/

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Granny Graffiti: Street Artists Tag Building and Statues With Yarn

"Yarn bombing takes that most matronly craft (knitting) and that most maternal of gestures (wrapping something cold in a warm blanket) and transfers it to the concrete and steel wilds of the urban streetscape. Hydrants, lampposts, mailboxes, bicycles, cars - even objects as big as buses and bridges - have all been bombed in recent years." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times  (includes slideshow and video)
On: 05/19/19
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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Museums And The Law, The Issues

"Tight museum finances, the recession and the threat that some policymakers may seek to squeeze a sector they see as elitist and wasteful, set the tone for the annual conference held last month on legal problems in museum administration." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/18/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/



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BC paintings expected to fetch record prices

"Going into Heffel Fine Art Auction House's spring sale on Tuesday, Coastal Boats was expected to sell for $700000 to $900000 (including buyer's premium), but there was speculation that the evocative painting could fetch more than $1-million (which ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Globe and Mail
On: 05/17/11
Website: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/


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NYS Adopts New Rules For Museum Deaccessioning

"The New York Board of Regents has approved new rules for deaccessioning artworks ... [At] least one of ten specific criteria be met when museums deaccession a work. Among the criteria are proving that an item is inconsistent with the museum's mission, that it is redundant in the institution's collection or that a work is stolen or inauthentic." [Read Full Article]

Published By: WNYC
On: 05/17/11
Website: http://culture.wnyc.org/


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Who Holds The Keys To Christo's Next Project? Bighorn Sheep

"Nearly 20 years after the artist Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, proposed draping a river canyon in southern Colorado in miles of translucent fabric, a federal thumbs up or down on the project may hinge on one factor above all others: the happiness of several hundred bighorn sheep." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/18/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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Rich art collection of jailed former CEO to be sold Sunday at Phila. auction house

"How did Freeman's land the right to auction the art of Scrushy, some of which had to be pried from the fingers of his wife, Leslie, who stuck "Leslie Scrushy claims an interest in this" stickers on virtually everything he owned? ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Philadelphia Inquirer
On: 05/11/12
Website: http://articles.philly.com/


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Wayne Clough Asks Smithsonian Employees To Take Buyouts, Retirement

The Smithsonian, he wrote, "will be able to reshape the workforce to meet current and future programming needs as we continue to move forward in implementing the Strategic Plan. This will also help us address critical Federal budgetary issues."[Read Full Article]

Published By: Washington Post
On: 05/17/11
Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

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Behind The Illicit Artifacts Trade

"The Getty and other American museums over the last decades have justified the acquisition of these things under questionable circumstances by saying that these poor orphan objects have been separated from their archaeological context already, and that we have a duty to rescue them from the market and to preserve them and display them publicly." [Read Full Article]

Published By: NPR
On: 05/17/11
Website: http://www.npr.org/

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Is The Getty An Impediment To A Great Getty Museum?

"The Getty Museum has improved immensely over the years, but nobody would say it has improved as much as it might have. The primary obstacle is that the director has full responsibility for the museum, but the president has final authority over it. And the president also has other obligations."[Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 05/17/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com


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Pigment at Hanging Rock: Thinking About Ancient Australian Aboriginal Art

"The Kimberley region of Australia is vast, remote, barely inhabited and strewn with ancient art. Jo Lennan takes a tour with a local elder to work out what it tells us about our distant past."[Read Full Article]

Published By: Intelligent Life Spring 2011
On: 05/16/11
Website: http://moreintelligentlife.com/

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So You Want To Be an Artist?

"First prize includes transportation, accommodation and meals for a two-night stay in Ottawa for the winner and an accompanying adult, as well as an exclusive behind-the-scenes visit to the NGC that will focus on careers in the visual arts. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: CanadianBusiness.com
On: 05/15/11
Website: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/


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Hughes works bought for a few hundred in 1955 could fetch millions at auction

"Coastal Boats Near Sidney, BC," which has a pre-sale estimate of $700000 to $900000, and "Mouth of the Courtenay River," estimated at $500000 to $700000, are among the highlights of Tuesday's spring sale at Heffel Fine Art Auction House in Vancouver. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Canadian Press
On: 05/15/11
Website: http://www.google.com/


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Richard Scrushy art collection sells for $549500 at auction

"The auction was held in Philadelphia at Freeman s Auctioneers & Appraisers, and attracted widespread bidding via telephone and Internet. As of early Sunday evening, the price paid for the Chagall piece was the highest for any art at the auction, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: al.com (blog)
On: 05/15/11
Website: http://blog.al.com/


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Despite recession, art thriving

"Larry Allen, a potter from Leeds, has changed his offerings as the spending habits of art show patrons has shifted. “I still make some expensive pieces, but I make a lot more inexpensive ones,” Allen said. “I've made a lot of adjustments price-wise in ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Times Daily
On: 05/15/11
Website: http://www.timesdaily.com/


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LA County Museum - The Michael Govan Years

"Five years into his stewardship of LACMA, having just signed a contract for five more, Govan, 47, has transformed the museum and its reputation. He has overseen the completion of two sleek new exhibition halls by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, grown the collection by about 12,000 objects and helped boost annual attendance by some 40%. But LACMA also has transformed Govan." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 05/14/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com/


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How Far Will Artworld Protests Over Ai Weiwei Detention Go?

"Despite the art world's concern over the fate of Ai Weiwei, it remains to be seen if any galleries pull out of the Chinese fair which has just been bought by MCH Swiss Exhibition Ltd, the company which organizes the two most prestigious modern and contemporary art fairs in the world, Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/15/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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Limits On The Current Art Market? Not Yet!

"Until this week, Contemporary art had to be big and colorful to hit the roof. Not any more." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/13/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/


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How Will James Cuno's Views On Antiquities Repatriation Fit At The Getty?

"Over that same decade, Cuno, 60, forged a reputation as an outspoken critic of efforts to curb the antiquities trade. In two books and many public appearances, he has called the efforts of foreign governments to regulate the trade in ancient art "nationalistic," and has lamented the limits put on museums' ability to collect art that has a murky ownership history." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 05/13/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com/

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American Folk Art Museum Sells Building To MoMA

"The cash strapped Folk Art Museum will be able to eliminate its $31.9m bond debt and [New York's Museum of Modern Art], which has first refusal on the sale, will be able to expand its exhibition space."[Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/11/11
Website: http://theartnewspaper.com/

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Met Museum Sues Man Who Bought Painting It Wasn't Selling

"In Chapter 2 of a long story that is growing longer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art filed suit Tuesday in United States District Court in Manhattan seeking possession of a painting now in the hands of Robert Wylde, a British collector." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/12/11
Website:  http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/


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The Good Burghers Of Milan Object To Financial District Sculpture

"Wall Street's charging-bull statue is the very epitome of financial strength. Outside the stock exchange in Italy's financial capital is an equally unambiguous symbol: a giant marble middle finger." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Wall Street Journal
On: 05/13/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com/


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Art Theft At Beijing's Forbidden City

"Guards saw a suspect leaving the area early on Monday but failed to stop him, a spokesman said. An investigation found nine pieces - all small Western-style, 20th-century gold purses and mirrored compacts covered with jewels - were missing from a temporary exhibition, on loan from the private Liang Yi." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Guardian (UK)
On: 05/12/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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When art becomes science to heal body and mind

"Now, such positive scientific elements of ancient and classical arts are at the core of a three-day cultural festival. Visual arts, as studies show, can deal with depression and foster healthy childbirth. The beat of Indian percussion instruments, ..." [Read Full Articles]

Published By: Times of India
On: 05/11/11
Website: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/


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Excessive Estimates Dampen Enthusiasm at Sotheby's $128 Million Contemporary Art Auction

"The new mark ranks as the third-most-expensive Koons at auction, trailing the giant, heavy metal "Balloon Flower – Magenta" from 1995-2000, which sold at Christie's London in June 2008 for $26 million, and "Hanging Heart" (1994-2006), which sold at .." [Read Full Article]

Published By: ARTINFO
On: 05/11/11
Website: http://www.artinfo.com/


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Met Museum To Take Over Whitney's Soon-To-Be-Former Building

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art will take over the Whitney Museum of American Art's Marcel Breuer building in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum in Manhattan's meatpacking district, according to the terms of a real estate agreement that the museum boards are pursuing."[Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/12/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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How Rumors Start In The Art World

"The art world never could keep a secret. Rumors are the beating heart of the tumultuous scene here, a kind of perennial self-fulfilling prophecy: Like Dorothy clicking together her red slippers and thinking of home, when some desired outcome is thought about hard and by enough people at the same time, it is willed into existence." [Read Full Article]

Published By: New York Observer
On: 05/10/11
Website: http://www.observer.com/


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Sotheby's Stock Price Takes A Fall

"More than 2.6m Sotheby's shares were traded today, following the quarterly report to shareholders in which the company announced that, while total revenue increased by 17% in the first quarter thanks to sales of high-end works, its operating costs--which were trimmed drastically during the downturn--rose 16%. This impacted the share price, which fell 6.1% today to close at $43.71." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/10/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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The End Of Blockbusters? (Hooray)

"The problem lies with the whole notion of the 'blockbuster', which is just a desperately hoped-for money-spinner for cash-strapped galleries."[Read Full Article]

Published By: The Guardian (UK)
On: 05/10/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/



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Study: Viewing Art Stimulates Feelings Of Love In The Brain

"A neurobiologist at the University College London scanned volunteers' brains as they looked at 28 pictures. Works by Botticelli and Monet caused increased blood flow to areas of the brain that are usually associated with romantic love." [Read Full Article]

Published By: he Art Newspaper
On: 05/10/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/


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A Look At Ai Weiwei's Art

"What about his art? Is it even any good? Well, though Weiwei himself came to denounce the Beijing Olympics as a "PR sham" hiding China's "disgusting" political reality, his stadium was a big hit, its twirling trusses suggestive of a bird's nest or woven basket of Chinese yore." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Telegraph
On: (UK) 05/08/11
Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/


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Restorers Try To Save Ancient Nevada Rock Art After Vandals Spray Paint

"The art, left by American Indians thousands of years ago, was the target of graffiti vandals in November. Areas as large as 9 feet wide were covered with maroon spray paint, apparently for the shock value of the damage, police said." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Las Vegas Sun
On: 05/06/11
Website: http://www.lasvegassun.com/


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Art Basel Buys Hong Kong's ArtHK Art Fair

"The owners of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach have "bought a 60% stake in Asian Art Fairs, the owner of the Hong Kong fair ArtHK (which opens its fourth edition in three weeks on 26 May), for an undisclosed price."' [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/07/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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Warning: Today's Digital Art Will Be Lost Without Better Conservation

"A team of experts is warning that some of Britain's contemporary artistic landmarks will be no more than memories within a decade unless conservationists can effectively archive digital works and stop them degrading." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Observer (UJK)
On: 05/08/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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Sotheby's Proposes 125 Percent Pay Raises For Its Top Execs

"The total compensation, up 125% from $6.8m in 2009, includes base salaries, plus other annual remunerations such as cash incentive bonuses and awards of Sotheby's shares. These additional perks take the total level of pay to at least five times these executives' base salary, and nearly nine times for the chief executive William Ruprecht." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 05/06/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

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Australian Curators Band Together To Protest Budget Cuts

"Staff say key institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum and the Australian War Memorial will be at breaking point if they suffer any more reduction in resources in next week's federal budget." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Australian
On: 05/06/11
Website: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/


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Great American Wilderness Meets Graduate Art Seminar, Courtesy Of Texas Tech

"Called Land Arts of the American West, the classes take place in a pair of heavy-duty Ford vans or wherever the vans and the camping gear they carry end up stopping during a 7,000-mile, two-month drive that a handful of participants ... make throughout the West." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The New York Times
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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'King Of Kowloon,' Hong Kong's Top Outsider Artist, Finally Gets Respect

"A toothless garbageman who once wandered Hong Kong's streets with dingy bags of ink and brushes tied to his crutches is now the subject of a major retrospective." Tsang Tsou-choi "spent half a century dodging security guards and police officers as he obsessively covered lampposts and mailboxes, slums and ferry piers, with his distinctive Chinese text." [Read Full Article]

Published By: International Herald Tribune
On: 05/05/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com/

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A Slow Start To Spring's Art Auction Season

"While the sales totals were disappointing, the strength of prices overall at this week's auctions show the market remains, strong says Suzanne Gyorgy, Citi Private Bank's director of Art Advisory and Finance. "When you look at the prices paid, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: CNBC.com
On: 05/05/11
Website: http://www.cnbc.com/


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Why Care About Art Auction Prices?

"The reporting of art sales - and beyond that, the figures themselves - create totally false narratives of the supposed value of art. Prices are given historic significance. Does it mean anything that Picasso is now so expensive? Did it mean anything when Klimt set a record? Does it tell us anything profound about our society if rich people buy contemporary art in preference to Old Masters, or vice versa?" [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Guardian (UK)
On: 05/05/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/


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Christie's art auction falls short of estimate

"Auction officials have spoken of the difficulty of assembling sales this season following a year of surprisingly buoyant results that saw prices recover from recessionary lows, enhancing the appeal of fine art as an investment. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Reuters
On: 05/05/11
Website: http://www.reuters.com/


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Director Of American Folk Art Museum Quits After Museum Misses Payments

"The museum, a few feet west of the Museum of Modern Art on Manhattan's W. 53rd Street, missed $3.7 million in payments to a debt service fund connected to bonds issued to construct a new building, it said in a January filing. It didn't expect to make payments into the fund "for the foreseeable future," the museum said." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Bloomberg
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.bloomberg.com/


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Waltons Give $800 Million For Arkansas Museum

"Of that, about $350 million will go to an endowment to meet operating needs, which are expected to run $16 to $20 million a year. $325 million will go to the general endowment and $125 million will go for future capital needs. All will be earning money for museum use." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Arkansas Times
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.arktimes.com/


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Turner Prize 2011 Shortlist: 'Humbrol Enamels Versus Bath Bombs And Lipstick'

"There may be two painters on this year's Turner prize shortlist, but traditionalists should pause before sighing with relief. One of them paints landscapes in the kind of enamel paint used for decorating model trains and aeroplanes; the other counts lipstick, bath bombs and bronzing powder among her unorthodox materials." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Guardian (UK)
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/


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Call for Art - Theme Nature - Apply Now - Deadline May, 29, 2011

"... a Juried Competition with the theme “Nature” in which 2D artists (Including Photography & Excluding Video) from around the world are called upon to make online submissions for inclusion into the Gallery's June 2011 online group exhibition. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: SBWire (press release)
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.sbwire.com/


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Commission Recommends National Museum Of Latino History For US Capitol

"In very clear language, the report says national recognition of Hispanic contributions to America is long overdue. 'The Mall, more than any other public space in our country does indeed tell the story of America, and yet that story is not complete'." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Washington Post
On: 05/05/11
Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/


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Sales steady at NY's Impressionist art auction

"An employee poses with artist Pablo Picasso's ''Femme Lisant (Deux Personnages)'' at Sotheby's auction house in London April 14, 2011. By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spring auctions began with a $170 million sale of Impressionist and modern art ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Reuters
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.reuters.com/


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Grandma Moses art show at Bennington Museum is largest in a decade

"The show will be in addition to the museum's permanent Grandma Moses exhibit house. As the best-known primitive artist of the 20th century, Grandma Moses and her work are considered exceptional, outside the mainstream of American art history. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Advocate Weekly
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.advocateweekly.com/


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Bloomberg Opens Art Exhibit By Imprisoned Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei

"However, because Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is composed of animal heads, it's a work that everyone can understand, including children and people who are not in the art world. I think it's more important to show your work to the public. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Gothamist
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://gothamist.com/


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Contemporary art gains ground for spring auctions

"Another Riopelle work of that era is also the top lot at Heffel Fine Art Auction House this spring. The West Coast auctioneer estimates that Sans Titre — a large, abstract, oil-on-canvas painting the Montreal artist created in 1955 — will sell for ..." [Read Full Article]


Published By: CBC.ca
On: 05/03/11
Website: http://www.cbc.ca/
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Tokyo Street Artist Adds Power Plant Image To Hiroshima Mural

"An anonymous painter in Japan at the weekend added an image of the stricken Fukushima atomic plant to a public mural about the horrors of a nuclear explosion by the late abstract master Taro Okamoto."[Read Full Article]


Published By: Yahoo! (AFP)
On: 05/02/11
Website: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/


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Auction houses gear up for New York art sales

"A Christie's employee poses for a photograph with artist Andy Warhol's ''Self-Portrait'' at Christie's auction house in London April 15, 2011. By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Buoyed by record results amid a dramatic art market recovery and an ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Reuters
On: 05/02/11
Website: http://www.reuters.com/


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Political Reality, Art, Politics

"As centers of power in the art world emerge beyond its longtime traditional capitals, questions of how to evaluate and influence human-rights issues have become more complicated." [Read Full Article]

Published By: ARTnews
On: 05/02/11
Website: http://artnews.com/

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Amsterdam's New Canal Museum

"'The history of the canals had never been told,' said Piet van Winden, the head of the 'Grachtenhuis' private museum which has just opened to the public. 'They are probably the best conceived urban extension project in the world,' he said. 'Here, we set the scene, we explain the how and why'." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Agence France-Presse (via Yahoo)
On: 05/02/11
Website: http://news.yahoo.com/

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Anish Kapoor's Installation At Monumenta Will Be - Giant Balloons?

"Kapoor intends to erect four giant PVC orbs that, when inflated, will fill the height, length and width of the 145,000-square-foot [Grand Palais in Paris]. The piece will be a major departure for the artist, who works almost exclusively with solid, predominantly metal, constructions." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Wall Street Journal
On: 04/28/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com/

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Major Modern Art Pieces At NY Auction May 3

"We are feeling confident and expect a very busy few days," said Conor Jordan, head of auction house Christie`s Impressionist & Modern Art. The sales are expected to make in total some 160 million dollars. Claude Monet`s 1891 oil painting masterpiece ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Spicezee
On: 05/01/11
Website: http://spicezee.zeenews.com/


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The Paradoxes of Penury

"A unique sequence of Impressionist and modern sales that took place at Christie's and Sotheby's in London in February highlighted the paradoxical situation in which art buyers and auction houses will find themselves in coming years. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: ArtInfo
On: 05/01//11
Website: http://www.artinfo.com/


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Debate: Should Smithsonian Show Commercially-Excavated Treasure?

"It was a commercial transaction, which is a no, no. But this is one of the most important discoveries over the last 50 years. I don't think we can miss the chance to tell this historic story. We can create a teachable moment." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Washington Post
On: 05/01/11
Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com/

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Documents Show Controversy About Tate Purchase 30 Years Ago

"More than 30 years after Andre's 120 bricks provoked outrage, newly released documents show how bitter that debate became and how the embattled Tate fought its corner. They reveal how the gallery was shocked by the ridicule it was subjected to after buying what appeared to be ordinary bricks." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Indepepndent (UK)
On: 05/01/11
Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/

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Street Artists Do What They Do For LA Show. Police Upset About It

"Several artists featured in the exhibition have moved beyond the gallery confines and marked up walls and urban furniture in surrounding streets with their trusty spray-paint cans, and even posted videos online showing them tagging a wall in Hollywood. The police are accusing the gallery of glorifying vandalism, and forcing them to remove graffiti from the streets." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Nerve
On: 04/21/11
Website: http://www.nerve.com/

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The Artisans Behind The Artists

"Plagiarism and authorship are prickly topics, particularly in the fine arts. If an artist does not physically make his or her own work, then what does that mean for the nature of art, and for the status of the artist? What is the difference between the person who conceives of the work, and the person who crafts it; between artist and an artisan? Is it helpful to distinguish art from craft?" [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Independent (UK)
On: 04/29/11
Website: http://www.independent.co.uk/

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