Artprice Enters Online Auction Arena
"French-owned Artprice, the art information and price database website, will launch its online auctions in a competitive market space this month.
Online auction service will commence on January 18, according to a company release. Previews of upcoming lots will begin on January 9.
Artprice reports it has 1.3 million members in more than 90 countries, and several thousand lots are already uploaded for auctions." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Artfix Daily
On: 01/03/12
Website: http://artfixdaily.com
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Musket Remnant, Herzog Painting Lead Doyle’s Americana Auction
"Doyle New York's auction of American furniture and decorative arts, including paintings and prints, on November 17 showcased important American furniture and decorative arts from the colonial period through the Federal and classical styles.
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Highlighting the sale was a painting by Hermann Ottomar Herzog (American, 1832–1932) depicting a sunset in the Florida Everglades that doubled its estimate of $25/35,000 to fetch $74,500." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Antiques and the Arts Online
On: 01/03/12
Website: http://antiquesandthearts.com
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David Hockney and Damien Hirst go head to head with solo London shows
"A small note on the posters for David Hockney's forthcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy contains a sly dig at another superstar artist about to launch a major exhibition. The note reads: 'All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally.'
In an interview with the Radio Times, Hockney confirmed that he had in mind Damien Hirst, whose £50m diamond and platinum skull will be the centrepiece of a Tate Modern exhibition in April, the first solo show of his work in a UK museum." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 01/03/12
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Big Beat: Why is some art a better investment than stocks?
"It’s a slippery thing to compare the art of specific artists to the stock market as a whole, as one measure is individual and the other is aggregation. Ottawa collector Glenn McInnes notes, 'I suspect there are some individual stocks such as Microsoft and Google that have performed equally for the original purchasers to those of the Hirsts and Warhols, and I suspect very strongly that all stocks have outperformed all art produced in the last century.'
True enough, but it’s also true that by times investors (or perhaps just extraordinarily lucky art lovers) have earned far greater returns by buying art than a stock-market index would have gained in that same period." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Ottawa Citizen
On: 01/02/12
Website: http://www.ottawacitizen.com
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This is not a tax, says Boston’s mayor
"The Museum of Fine Arts was dismayed to learn that the city of Boston is requesting a payment of $250,000 this year under new rules for the amount that not-for-profit organisations have to pay in lieu of taxes. The city plans to quadruple the bill to more than $1m by 2016.
The steep rise in contributions is a result of the Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino’s revised Payment in Lieu of Taxes scheme, known as Pilot. The art museums, and the city’s other not-for-profit organisations owning property that is worth more than $15m, face paying a fee that is based on 25% of what they would have to pay if they were charged the city’s commercial tax." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 01/01/12
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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Arab protesters put their art on the streets
"'What is interesting to see in Egypt, and in all these countries, is that artists are not only going out into the city, they also become agents of change in society,' says Hans Ulrich Obrist of London’s Serpentine Gallery, who is chairing a discussion on art patronage in the Middle East as part of a summit at the British Museum and the Royal College of Art (12-13 January). 'If you think about it in terms of the Russian Revolution and Mayakovsky saying ‘the streets are our brushes, the squares our palettes’, it’s about art going beyond the museum and blurring the boundaries between art and life.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 12/30/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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UK Droit de Suite Comes Into Law
"In case you took your eye off the ball, while everyone was popping their Champagne or Prosecco corks at midnight 2012, the EU Droit de Suite Artist's Resale rights came into effect, here in Britain. This is perhaps the most detrimental law, ever to be passed, since the UK was art market leader, back in the 1960's -1970's. At the beginning of 2011, the UK was the number two secondary market for Modern and Contemporary art, after the United States. It has since slipped into third place after China. British dealers and auction houses will now lose works of art to rival markets in New York, Geneva, Moscow and Hong Kong or wherever the European sales levy, known as Droit de suite is not implemented." [Read Full Article]
Published by: ArtLyst
On: 01/01/12
Website: http://www.artlyst.com
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Leicestershire Council auctions off art collection for over £170,000
"An oil on canvas, painted by the late artist Avinash Chandra, sold for a staggering £16,000 – making it the most expensive painting sold at the auction.
Leicestershire County Council is aiming to cut £79 million from its budget over the next four years, and said that the money raised from the auction would be reinvested in museums." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Blottr
On: 01/01/12
Website: http://www.blottr.com
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Salon International 2012
| INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | ||
San Antonio, Texas
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| Deadline: January 20, 2012 | ||
| Posted: 11/17/11 | ||
| Exhibit Dates: | April 14 - May 4, 2012 | |
| Title: | Salon International 2012 | |
| Sponsor: | International Museum of Contemporary Masters | |
| Venue: | Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art | |
| Awards: | $8000 Best of Show ($30,000 total awards) | |
| Juror: | Edward Minoff | |
| Eligibility: | Salon International is open to all original oil paintings created after April 14, 2010. All Paintings must be available for sale. Canvas may not exceed 30 inches on either dimension. Accepted work must be appropriately framed and wired for hanging. Each artist may submit up to three entries. | |
| Fees: | 1 entry $35, 2 entries $65, 3 entries $90 | |
| Commission: | 40% to gallery | |
| Send SASE to: | Greenhouse Gallery SI2012, 6496 N. New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio, TX 78209 | |
| E-mail: | Jason Smith | |
| Phone: | 210-828-6491 | |
| Website: | http://si.greenhousegallery.com | |
| Prospectus: | http://si.greenhousegallery.com | |
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