Canadian artworks yield $7.8M at auction
"A Sotheby's Canadian art auction of painters, including works by Jean Paul Lemieux, Alex Colville and Jack Bush, fetched more than $7.8 million Monday evening, against pre-sale estimates as low as $4.7 million, at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
The Lemieux canvas Country Club, which had attracted much pre-sale interest during the Sotheby’s preview at the Arsenal in Montreal, surpassed expectations when it was sold for $1,095,000 against a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000." [Read Full Article]
Published by: CBC News
On: 11/29/11
Website: http://www.cbc.ca
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Sotheby's important Russian art evening auction brings £5.6/$8.7 million
"This evening, Sotheby’s Important Russian Art auction which was exceptionally well-attended brought £5,597,000/$8,657,999 (est. £5,755,000-8,415,000). The sale achieved sellthrough rates of 66.7% by lot and 74.6% by value, and established two new artist records for Alexander Golovin and Pavel Kovalevsky.
The top-selling lot of this evening’s auction was Petr Konchalovsky’s exceptionally rare, pre-revolutionary painting Tatar Still Life, dated 1916. The painting saw competition from 5 bidders and realised the above-estimate sum of £914,850/$1,415,181 (est. £500,000-700,000)." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Artdaily.org
On: 11/30/11
Website: http://www.artdaily.org
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Curators becoming a vanishing breed on local art scene
"The big story in the Front Range art scene over the past five years has been the explosive growth in museums, from the addition of a $29 million institution devoted to artist Clyfford Still to an array of sleek new buildings and additions.
. . .
But as museums take major strides forward, the area's alternative art centers seem to be slipping backward, cutting curatorial positions and settling for inconsistent and often unambitious exhibition schedules." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Denver Post
On: 11/26/11
Website: http://www.denverpost.com
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Arts in Harmony 2012 Seventeenth Annual International Juried Art Show
| INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | ||
Elk River, Minnesota
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| Deadline: December 2, 2011 | ||
| Posted: 10/6/11 | ||
| Exhibit Dates: | February 6 - March 29, 2012 | |
| Title: | Arts in Harmony 2012 Seventeenth Annual International Juried Art Show | |
| Sponsor: | Elk River Area Arts Alliance | |
| Venue: | Sherburne County Government Center | |
| Awards: | $10,750 for 55 Awards. $1,000 Best of Show, $300 Best Out of State Artist. | |
| Juror: | Peter Spooner, Curator, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth | |
| Eligibility: | Open to all living artists. Paintings, drawings, digital and hand-pulled prints, mixed media, fiber, batik, photography, ceramics, glass, sculpture, and sequential art. | |
| Fees: | $35 for one or two entries. Additional entries $6 per entry. | |
| Commission: | $25%, 15% for members | |
| Send SASE to: | Elk River Area Arts Alliance, 716 Main Street, P.O. Box 737, Elk River, MN 55330 | |
| E-mail: | David Beauvais | |
| Phone: | 763.441.4725 | |
| Website: | http://www.elkriverart.org | |
| Prospectus: | http://www.elkiverart.org | |
Cruel Portrait of Brooklyn Museum Director Displayed in Staten Island Borough Hall
"Scott LoBaido, a Staten Island painter, describes himself as a "Creative Patriot." According to his website, his most ambitious works have been the world's largest version of the American flag (he claims) and a project where he painted 50 flags on one rooftop each state. He's also a religious Catholic and was so offended by the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly," a video that features a shot of ants crawling over a crucifix, that he decided to take matters into his own hands. LoBaido painted a portrait of Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman nude and sitting on the edge of a truly icky green toilet bowl and tried to hang it in the museum himself." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Village Voice
On: 11/23/11
Website: http://blogs.villagevoice.com
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Prized works by Czech painter Emil Filla stolen
"Four of Filla’s works were stolen in the early morning hours from the Peruc Chateau, located about 50 km northwest of Prague, which houses a permanent exhibition of Filla’s works and where the artist spent several years after the second world war. According to Alica Stefancikova, the exhibition’s curator, the alarm system, which is directly connected to the Peruc police station, sounded at 4:04am on Friday morning. Although police arrived at the chateau within ten minutes, the thieves had already fled the scene." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 11/26/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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London auctions: a week of Russian art
"The traditional “Russian Week” of auctions selling objects of art in London between the 28th of November and the 1st of December began with the sale of Viktor Vasnetsov’s picture A Knight at the Crossroads (over $1.6mln). Christie’s started the auction to be followed by Sotheby’s, MacDougall’s and other famous houses." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Voice of Russia
On: 11/29/11
Website: http://english.ruvr.ru
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Osman Hamdi’s piece stays at auction house
"Osman Hamdi Bey’s “Serenity,” an oil canvas work dating from 1904, was expected to fetch a record price for a work of Turkish art when it went under the hammer yesterday in Istanbul. However, due to the insufficient bidding prices, the painting could not find any buyer. The bidding opened from $9 million and the first bidding prices were ranged around 100,000 to 150,000 Turkish Liras." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Hurriyet Daily News
On: 11/27/11
Website: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com
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Art lovers queue up for RCA's £45 sale
"They say you must suffer for your art. Usually this applies to the artists, not the buyers. Yet more than 1,300 art lovers braved the cold for hours in London yesterday morning to queue for the chance to snap up affordable original artwork at the Royal College of Art's Secret postcard sale.
. . .
The "secret" to the annual sale is that buyers do not know which of the 1,119 artists involved – who include RCA students – has created each of the 2,900 postcards, displayed anonymously and signed on the reverse, until after they have handed over their cash. However, the postcards had been on display for a week beforehand, giving punters the chance to make an educated guess." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Independent
On: 11/27/11
Website: http://www.independent.co.uk
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Telluride Plein Air 2012
| INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | ||
Telluride, Colorado
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| Deadline: November 30, 2011 | ||
| Posted: 9/26/11 | ||
| Exhibit Dates: | June 29 - July 5, 2012 | |
| Title: | Telluride Plein Air 2012 | |
| Sponsor: | Southwest Art Magazine | |
| Venue: | Historic Sheridan Opera House | |
| Awards: | Quick Draw $800, Artist Choice $1,000 | |
| Eligibility: | Any artists over 18 years old are eligible to apply. Application required three Plein Air images and a resume. | |
| Fees: | $45 | |
| Commission: | 40/60 split between the Sheridan Arts Foundation and artist | |
| E-mail: | Julia Wentowrth | |
| Phone: | 970.728.6363 | |
| Website: | http://www.telluridepleinair.com | |
| Prospectus: | http://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/ | |
Auction of Canadian art may set sale price record
"How do you price a painting that could set a record for a contemporary Canadian painting sold by auction? Jean-Paul Riopelle holds the record for a con-temporary painting sold in Canada ($1.6-million in 2006). But Heffel believes that Jean Paul Lemieux's Nineteen Ten Remembered, arguably his most famous piece, will also crack the million-dollar mark in Toronto today." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Calgary Herald
On: 11/24/11
Website: http://www.calgaryherald.com
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World record at auction expected for a Turkish work of art at Antik A.S. in Istanbul
"Antik A.S. is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an exceptional auction. The leading auction house of Turkey will offer exceptional paintings by the most important classic Turkish masters. The auction will take place on November 27, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 200 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. exhibition rooms until 27th of November. " [Read Full Article]
Published by: Artdaily.org
On: 11/25/11
Website: http://www.artdaily.org
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Arts in Harmony 2012 Seventeenth Annual International Juried Art Show
| INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | ||
Elk River, Minnesota
| ||
| Deadline: December 2, 2011 | ||
| Posted: 10/6/11 | ||
| Exhibit Dates: | February 6 - March 29, 2012 | |
| Title: | Arts in Harmony 2012 Seventeenth Annual International Juried Art Show | |
| Sponsor: | Elk River Area Arts Alliance | |
| Venue: | Sherburne County Government Center | |
| Awards: | $10,750 for 55 Awards. $1,000 Best of Show, $300 Best Out of State Artist. | |
| Juror: | Peter Spooner, Curator, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth | |
| Eligibility: | Open to all living artists. Paintings, drawings, digital and hand-pulled prints, mixed media, fiber, batik, photography, ceramics, glass, sculpture, and sequential art. | |
| Fees: | $35 for one or two entries. Additional entries $6 per entry. | |
| Commission: | $25%, 15% for members | |
| Send SASE to: | Elk River Area Arts Alliance, 716 Main Street, P.O. Box 737, Elk River, MN 55330 | |
| E-mail: | David Beauvais | |
| Phone: | 763.441.4725 | |
| Website: | http://www.elkriverart.org | |
| Prospectus: | http://www.elkiverart.org | |
Heffel auction includes two Albert Henry Robinson works taken from a barn
"They've adorned the living room walls of a smoky apartment near the Bronx, sat on a three-season porch in upstate New York and were buried under a tarp in a Massachusetts barn.
But these days, a couple of paintings by late Hamilton artist Albert Henry Robinson are getting the royal treatment. The owners realized their value and sent them to Heffel Fine Art Auction House, which will try to sell them Thursday for tens of thousands of dollars a piece." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Macleans.ca
On: 11/23/11
Website: http://www.macleans.ca
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Six Art-Market Trends to Watch in China's Fall Auction Season
"Beijing’s fall auction season opened last week, and it has already confirmed the pattern set at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong last month of a cooler-headed market which, in the face of financial turmoil abroad and a credit crunch at home, is forsaking risk for quality. Unproven contemporary names were shunned in Beijing and even established artists failed where offerings were mediocre or reserves were unrealistic. Buyers prepared to spend were drawn — as in Hong Kong — to Chinese modern masters, antiquities, and artistic works of iron-clad provenance." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Artinfo
On: 11/23/11
Website: http://artinfo.com
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Leonardo: National Gallery to act over ticket resales
"The gallery said tickets that have been resold will be cancelled without refund and holders refused admission.
The £16 exhibition tickets are now being resold on eBay and Viagogo for up to £400.
'We are obviously very disappointed at the resale of these tickets for profit,' a spokeswoman said." [Read Full Article]
Published by: BBC News
On: 11/23/11
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk
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World famous Barnard Castle artist's work auctioned
"Works by Mackenzie Thorpe, who comes from Middlesbrough, are to be sold by auctioneers Addisons, of Barnard Castle.
. . .
His works appear in galleries around the world and the paintings in the auction are set to reach prices from £1,800-£7,000.
David Elstob, auctioneer and valuer at Addisons, said: 'We are very privileged to be able to offer such a large number of Mackenzie Thorpe’s paintings for sale.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Advertiser
On: 11/22/11
Website: http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk
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In Art Fraud Case, Defendant With a History Receives a Six-Year Sentence
"It has been a big, if bizarre, year for “Portrait of a Girl,” an oil painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, which has been valued as high as $1.35 million in recent years. It was an even more eventful year for Thomas Doyle, the Manhattan man who pleaded guilty in July to one count of wire fraud in connection with his deceitful purchase of the painting in 2010.
Mr. Doyle, 54, was sentenced on Monday to six years in prison — twice the sentence stipulated by guidelines relating to his plea bargain." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Art to download is little more than dead-eyed commercialism
"This week sees the launch of s[edition], a website dedicated to selling digital editions of art. It has been founded by top art dealers and offers the works of top artists, including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, to download for "affordable" prices. You can get a limited edition Hirst skull to put on your mobile phone for £500.
Emin, telling the BBC about the project, said it gives art back to the people by making it affordable (or something like that). But are the starving masses or the squeezed middle really going to fork out £500 for a mobile phone picture? Isn't it more like a trivial luxury for the same fabled Russian moneyed elite who buy their art yachts at Frieze?" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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When art breeds success in the bedroom
"To deal with their realisation that some artists get a lot of sex while others get little or none, Helen Clegg, Daniel Nettle and Dorothy Miell made use of an ancient tool – a tool that mathematicians count among the sexiest of mankind's inventions. The logarithm.
The trio had joined forces, as they later described it, to 'investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists'." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Fall auctions highlight long-hidden and post-war art
"A trove of Canadian art treasures — canvases uncovered after decades, paintings from key periods and highlights of the burgeoning post-war scene — will cross the block in Toronto during the fall auction season.
Prominent collections are being featured by Heffel Fine Art, which holds its sale on Thursday and includes 216 lots. A prominent Montreal collection is offering several of the auctioneer's most significant works, including Jean-Paul Riopelle's Grande Fête (painted during his coveted, early 1950s period), the life-sized Michael Snow sculpture Sideway (a piece from his Walking Woman series) and Jean Paul Lemieux's beloved canvas Nineteen Ten Remembered." [Read Full Article]
Published by: CBC News
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.cbc.ca
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Why you can’t always trust auction results
"There’s a lot of opacity when it comes to fine-art auctions, but the one thing which is always fully transparent is the final sale price. Sellers can negotiate deals when it comes to the commission they pay the auction house; buyers can’t. The buyer’s premium is set, and is public, and can always be used to find out the total amount of money which was spent by the buyer on the work of art in question. That’s why art-price databases use auction results: they know exactly how much was spent, even if they don’t know who the buyer was.
But now, with the system of third-party guarantees, we no longer know for sure that the reported price was in fact the price actually paid by the buyer." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Reuters
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://blogs.reuters.com
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Renoir’s Le Bouquet Brings $657,250 at Heritage Auctions
"Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Le Bouquet, 1910, brought $657,250 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ American & European Signature® Art Auction, Nov. 8, at Heritage’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Dallas Art News
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.dallasartnews.com
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Grand clashes in miniature
"IT SEEMS an unlikely success story: identical twins of Indian origin, born in Britain, become famous artists for depicting their home city of Liverpool and other more controversial scenes in the style of Mughal miniature paintings. Yet this is the case of the Singh Twins, Amrit and Rabindra, now in their 40s. They recently completed a month’s tour of India, where they were feted in Delhi and Mumbai.
. . .
Their work consistently records the lives of Indians as they merge with British society, and also attacks what they see as wrong with society. The usual targets are increasing commercialism, the misuse of power and challenges to Indian culture. 'We saw our works as being important to challenge established cultural biases,' says Rabindra. The idea, they say, is to recognise the beauty and complications of India’s heritage and British culture." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Economist
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.economist.com
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Pepper-spray cop works his way through art history
"Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis campus police officer who pepper-sprayed passive student protesters, is popping up in some of the world’s most famous paintings as part of an Internet meme intended to shame him for his actions.
. . .
The images are a cheeky way of fighting back against what students say was an unwarranted use of forceful policing tactics. The university has defended Pike’s actions, though he and two other police officers have been suspended pending an investigation." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Washington Post
On: 11/21/11
Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com
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LUMIERE, Durham
"It would be hard to say which was the more breathtaking: a sunny Autumn morning walk around the woody-banked loop of the River Wear, looking up at Durham’s monumental Norman cathedral from every perspective, or seeing the great edifice illuminated the previous evening with pages of the Lindisfarne Gospel, centerpiece of the city’s LUMIERE festival. For dynamic outdoor art to rival one of the world’s most spectacular natural-urban scenes is quite something; for the citizens, who must almost take Durham’s hilly location for granted, the festival offers a bewitching chance to renew a sense of awe about where they live." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Desk
On: 11/18/11
Website: http://www.theartsdesk.com
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Art works better as long-term investment
"WThese days, a number of people are trying to sell their artworks in order to raise funds for either their businesses or personal use, but clearly this is not the best time to sell. If possible, it is advisable to hold onto the artworks till the overall market conditions improve because not only is it difficult to do sell now but one is unlikely to get an optimal price." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Economic Times
On: 11/20/11
Website: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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A ONE-MAN MARKET
"Warhol is now the god of contemporary art. He is indeed, it is said, the “American Picasso” or, if you prefer, the art market’s one-man Dow Jones. In 2010 his work sold for a total of $313m and accounted for 17% of all contemporary auction sales. This was a 229% increase on the previous year—nothing bounced out of recession quite like a Warhol. But perhaps the most significant figure is the rise in his average auction prices between 1985 and the end of 2010: 3,400%. The contemporary-art market as a whole rose by about half that, the Dow by about a fifth. 'Warhol is the backbone of any auction of post-war contemporary art,' says Christopher Gaillard, president of the art consultants Gurr Johns. 'He is the great moneymaker.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: More Intelligent Life
On: November/December 2011
Website: http://moreintelligentlife.com
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Tamayo tops Latam auction, kinetic art sales strong
"'It was a great night for Rufino Tamayo,' Sotheby's Latin American art chief Carmen Melian said of the Wednesday evening sale, which totaled $17 million.
'Watermelon Slices is a symphony of colors that recall the (late U.S. master abstract colorist) Mark Rothko. Dozens and dozens of reds and orange shades vibrate,' she said." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Reuters
On: 11/17/11
Website: http://www.reuters.com
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Appetite for Art: Restoring Ancient Works With Hungry Bacteria
"The frescoes in the Church of Santos Juanes in Valencia, Spain, have been damaged by fire (the Spanish Civil War), glue (botched restoration attempts in the ’60s), and salt blooms (a side effect of pigeon nests). But the 17th-century masterpieces aren’t lost yet. The Polytechnic University of Valencia’s Institute of Heritage Restoration and Centre for Advanced Food Microbiology have joined forces to rejuvenate the priceless works. Tool of choice: bacteria." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Wired magazine
On: 11/01/11
Website: http://www.wired.com
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Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969
"Published by New York’s Maecenas Press-Random House in 1969 and distributed as their book of the month, the volume went on to become one of the most sought-after Dalí suites of all time. It contains 12 heliogravures, one for each chapter of the book, and one original signed etching in 4 colors as the frontpiece.
. . .
The book isn’t exactly easy to acquire — Amazon currently spots just a single copy, handsomely priced at $12,900." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Brain Pickings
On: 11/15/11
Website: http://www.brainpickings.org
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Mondrian's little known London period highlighted by exhibition of rare works
"The exhibition, which opens in February, and brings together works by Mondrian and Nicholson originally shown in the same galleries, examines a little-known period of Mondrian's life in the late 1930s when he lived for two years in a bedsit in Hampstead, north London, and socialised with Nicholson, his first and second wives Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, and other avant-garde British artists.
'He spent two years in London and only three years in New York,' the Courtauld's director, Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, said, 'and yet everyone knows about his New York period, hardly anyone that he lived in London.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 11/17/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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L.S. Lowry painting sells for $8.8 million
"An L.S. Lowry painting has matched a world record price for the artist at a London auction, Christie's auction house said Wednesday.
Christie's said "Picadilly Circus" fetched 5.6 million pounds ($8.8 million) at an auction of 14 Lowry oil paintings." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Sacramento Bee
On: 11/16/11
Website: http://www.sacbee.com
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Strip Poker Art Project Attracts a Crowd
"The idea of the exhibit is that clothing is money -- who loses how much is up to luck, but people who start out with more have an advantage over people who start out with less. While some people stopped to read the information about the exhibit posted on the wall, most were content to stand on the sidewalk or in the street and observe from afar, though one middle-aged man attempted to climb a pole in order to get a better view. When another man failed for a third time to drag his friend away from the window, he angrily shouted, 'That's what peep shows are for!'" [Read Full Article]
Published by:
On: 11/14/11
Website: http://blogs.villagevoice.com
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notBIG Small Works Competition
| INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | ||
Lexington, Kentucky
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| Deadline: November 30, 2011 | ||
| Posted: 9/17/11 | ||
| Exhibit Dates: | January 9 - February 3, 2012 | |
| Title: | notBIG Small Works Competition | |
| Venue: | M S Rezny Studio/Gallery | |
| Awards: | $800 plus | |
| Juror: | Jack Girard | |
| Eligibility: | No works over 12 inches in any direction. Painting, Photography, Fiber, Ceramics, Digital, Video, Mixed Media, Collage, Sculpture, Glass. | |
| Fees: | $20 for 3 images, $25 for 4 images, $30 for 5 images | |
| Commission: | 40 percent | |
| E-mail: | Mary Rezny | |
| Website: | http://www.msrezny.com | |
| Prospectus: | http://www.msreznygallery.jimdo.com | |
Faith in contemporary art in billionaires' increasing
"In just three days last week contemporary art sales by auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury racked up $635 mn.
. . .
'This strong trend will continue in the market,' said Koji Inoue, Associate Vice President, Specialist, Post-War & Contemporary Art and Head of Evening Sales over phone. 'I think it is has been spurred by collectors who are not really looking at art as an investment. It is more buoyed by a powerful store value. They weren't necessary speculators and as they were offered with a once in a lifetime opportunity, they could not let it pass on, no matter what the economic standards are,' he added." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Economic Times
On: 11/15/11
Website: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Haiti heritage rescue could stall
"In the 22 months since a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, heritage professionals from the US, Canada and Europe have worked non-stop with their Haitian colleagues, through cholera epidemics and political upheavals, to salvage the country’s fragile heritage. Among the many initiatives resulting from the disaster was the Smithsonian’s creation of a new conservation centre where foreign conservators could assess and conserve works pulled from the rubble as well as train a new generation of native conservators. But before handing over the centre to the Haitian government on 1 November, the project’s supervisor expressed concerns about its future should the necessary funding not be raised to sustain the project." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 11/15/11
Website: http://theartnewspaper.com
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DIA embraces challenge on marketing religion, art
"The marketing slogan “See Jesus in a New Light” made the cut, but “If Jesus Came to Detroit, Would You Go See Him?” did not. Promoting a household name like Rembrandt is a no-brainer for museums, but marketing Jesus is more complicated.
The Detroit Institute of Arts’ important upcoming exhibition “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” actually combines two household names. But finding ways to honor both Rembrandt’s artistic genius and the profound spiritual meaning that Christ carries in the lives of believers has been one of the greatest marketing challenges the DIA has ever faced." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Detroit Free Press
On: 11/15/11
Website: http://www.freep.com
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Andreas Gursky’s $4.3 Million Print Sets New Record
"Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II” sold for $4,338,500 at an auction of contemporary art at Christie’s auction house in New York on November 8, making it the most expensive photo sold at auction. This is the second time a Gursky print has held this distinction. His 2001 photo “99 Cent II Diptychon” sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $3,346,456 in 2007, and was only displaced in May 2011, when a 1981 Cindy Sherman self-portrait sold for $3,890,500 at Christie’s. The buyer of “Rhein II” is unknown." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Photo District News
On: 11/14/11
Website: http://www.pdnonline.com
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Botero sculpture, Tamayo painting lead Latam sales
"A towering Fernando Botero sculpture and a painting by Mexican master Rufino Tamayo lead Latin American art auctions this week, which could benefit from strong demand seen in earlier art sales in New York.
. . .
On Wednesday and Thursday, Sotheby's estimates its sale of Latin American art could go as high as $19.2 million to $26.2 million.
'What is outstanding about the sale is the retrospective quality of the work of the great Mexican master Rufino Tamayo, represented from 1928 to the 1970s,' said Carmen Melian, Sotheby's Latin American art chief." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Reuters
On: 11/14/11
Website: http://in.reuters.com
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Venus, meet Elvis
"Masterpieces get a makeover at The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation’s retrospective of the New Academy of Fine Arts, an underground art movement that flowered in St. Petersburg in the 1990s. In an unprecedented exhibition, the gallery is displaying 200 works by 14 of the group’s artists, who eschewed modern art for a new breed of classicism." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Moscow News
On: 11/14/11
Website: http://themoscownews.com
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Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota urges art galleries to turn down the heating
"Galleries and museums are guilty of boosting global warming and paying too much for heating and air conditioning, according to Tate galleries director Sir Nicholas Serota. The influential art expert is leading a backroom campaign to urge fellow art gallery chiefs across the world to drop stringent rules about the temperature and humidity levels inside their buildings.
. . .
Today, alongside improvements in technology, the understanding of how artworks are damaged has deepened. Behind the scenes Serota, along with Mark Jones, former head of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is now calling for a radical rethink. 'We need to establish a new dialogue between professionals and empower them to consider fresh options,' Serota told an international conference, before setting up a working group and looking into how to make changes at the Tate. 'We need to devise imaginative new solutions to resolve the dichotomy between long-term collections care and expensive environmental conditions,' he said." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 11/13/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Art auctions elicit mixed response
"During this period of economic uncertainty, the art market too has had its share of ups and downs. Perhaps, the lows have been more frequent than the highs, especially in the recent past. There has been a mixed response to art auctions as well. Certain auctions have performed exceedingly well while others have failed to make an impression." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Economic Times
On: 11/13/11
Website: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Art: An unlikely form of army therapy
"Outside of the NHS, the charity Combat Stress is the biggest provider of support to armed forces veterans with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety.
Art therapy is one of the treatments it uses. Drawing, sculpting and painting are helping patients manage their symptoms with great success.
'Traumatic memories take a different path from our normal memories and tend to be frozen in the body in the central nervous system,' explains Janice Lobban, who has been a trauma therapist at Combat Stress for the past 10 years.
'When a trauma happens, the person will react to get through the experience, but it leaves the trauma unprocessed.' . . . . Art therapy, therefore, aims to help people express themselves unconsciously and process the meaning afterwards." [Read Full Article]
Published by: BBC News
On: 11/11/11
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk
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Folk art auction price tag sets record in Boston
"A painting sold at auction in Boston over the weekend has set a new record in an obscure but cherished corner of the art world that has a long history in New England.
The painting, an 18th century portrait of a young Connecticut woman, sold for $1.27 million at an auction of American furniture and decorative arts, held Saturday in Boston by Skinner Inc. The previous record was held by a similar painting sold in 2007 by Christie’s Group plc for just a few tens of thousands less, according to the auction house." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Boston Business Journal
On: 11/10/11
Website: http://www.bizjournals.com
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New York art auctions see record prices
" The stunning $61.7 million sale of a painting by American abstract artist Clyfford Still capped a week of record prices at auctions in New York, despite turmoil in the world's financial markets.
Against the backdrop of a noisy protest by union workers outside, Sotheby's sold Still's painting "1949-A-No. 1" for almost three times the previous record of $21.3 million for works by the famously reclusive artist, who died in 1980." [Read Full Article]
Published by: AFB
On: 11/10/11
Website: http://www.google.com
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Pushkin accused of displaying a fake
"Concerns are growing that a Modigliani painting on show in the “Paris School: 1905-32” exhibition (until 20 November) at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow is a fake. Portrait of Marevna is described as a 1919 portrait by Modigliani of Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska, the Russian-born cubist painter known as Marevna who moved in Modigliani’s circle in Paris. The show is curated by Andrei Tolstoy, the deputy director of the museum, and the work is on loan from a private collection." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 11/10/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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Beauty Comes in Many Forms
| INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES | ||
Irvine, California
| ||
| Deadline: November 30, 2011 | ||
| Posted: 9/29/11 | ||
| Exhibit Dates: | January 7, 2012, 5:30-9pm | |
| Title: | Beauty Comes in Many Forms | |
| Venue: | Linus Art Gallery | |
| Eligibility: | What's your idea of beauty? It's all very subjective, isn't it? This is a juried competition where we'll choose the best artists and then ask the audience to decide on the best artists from those showing. All worldwide artists, amateur and professional. | |
| Fees: | $35 for 3 submissions, $5 for each additional | |
| Commission: | 40% | |
| E-mail: | Linnea Lenkus | |
| Phone: | 310-491-0869 | |
| Website: | http://www.linusgallery.com | |
| Prospectus: | http://linusgallery.com/beauty-art-exhibit-irvine.html | |
Archeologists Find Central Europe's Oldest Painting
"When [Nicholas] Conard's archeology team made their discovery at the Hohle Fels site in the early summer of 2009, they had not been expecting to find anything because they were working in comparably young layers of sediment created at the end of the last ice age rather than the older, deeper layers where other artifacts had been found. Nothing had ever been uncovered from this particular era in the numerous caves dotted around the Swabian Alps.
Then one student noticed a strange stone lying amongst the sediment. "This stone was so dirty that at first you didn't see anything," Conard recalled. It was only when the stone was washed that it became clear one side had been painted." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Spiegel Online
On: 11/09/11
Website: http://www.spiegel.de
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Postwar and Contemporary Artworks Draw Record Prices at Christie’s
"At a sale attended by the actor Leonardo DiCaprio hiding under a baseball cap and China Chow, host of the Bravo reality show “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist,” as well as serious collectors like the newsprint magnate Peter Brant and the London-based jeweler Laurence Graff, bidders knew what they wanted and, when they thought something was worth the stretch, they were willing to pay record prices.
It was a big auction — 91 works — running the gamut from masters like Warhol and Twombly to many of today’s trendiest artists. And it made big prices. The sale totaled $247.6 million, which fell between its $226.4 million to $312.3 million estimates. Only nine lots failed to sell." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 11/08/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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W.R. Leigh Painting Sets Record with $1.195 Million at Heritage Auctions
"W.R. Leigh’s Home, Sweet Home soared to nearly double its pre-auction estimate selling for $1.195 million and setting a new world record price for the artist in Heritage Auctions’ $2.27 million Art of the American West Signature® Auction, Saturday, Nov. 5. The painting came to auction from The Property of Philip Jonsson, son of former Dallas Mayor and Texas Instruments Co-Founder Eric Jonsson." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Dallas Art News
On: 11/09/11
Website: http://www.dallasartnews.com
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Art Work that was Displayed at OFA Sold at Christie’s Auction House
"For years, three pieces of art work hung high, mostly unnoticed, above students passing through the main lobby at Owego Free Academy. In late May, two of these pieces were sold at the famed Christie’s Auction House in Rockefeller Center, New York City, in its auction of “Important Works of American Art.” The two pieces sold for a combined $83,000. A third painting was sold in August for an additional $22,500.
What’s perhaps most interesting is that the art work, and its recent sale, places Owego Apalachin schools in one of the major stories in the art world in the United States during the 20th century." [Read Full Article]
Published by: WIVT/WBGH News Channel 34
On: 11/09/11
Website: http://www.newschannel34.com
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France bars UK gallery from leaving with 'stolen' art
"The Carrying of the Cross by the French master Nicolas Tournier was bought last year for 400,000 euros ($550,000) by the Weiss Gallery of London.
But the French government says it is stolen property and that its whereabouts had been a mystery for nearly 200 years.
France has put an export ban on the work to prevent it leaving the country." [Read Full Article]
Published by: BBC News
On: 11/07/11
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk
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The problem with authenticating Warhol
"Works by Andy Warhol are due to take centre stage in this month’s contemporary art auctions in New York (7-9 November). An estimated $114m worth of art, comprising 49 works, ranging from $20,000 to $19m, will be sold; works by Warhol will represent 11% of the evening sale material. Their success, or failure, will act as a barometer for the health of the contemporary market at a time when fears of a new recession are looming.
There is, though, a twist in this month’s test of the Warhol market following the announcement that the Andy Warhol Foundation will dissolve its authentication board at the beginning of 2012." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 11/07/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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$71 Million in Art Is Sold at Phillips, Near Low Estimate
"Phillips de Pury & Company’s auction of contemporary art — which started this week’s back-to-back big-money auctions — was a tepid affair, with price resistance on everything from paintings by Warhol and Lichtenstein to sculptures by Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan.
It was the first time that Phillips led off the week’s lineup, but whether this new position helped or hurt sales was impossible to gauge. The auction brought $71.2 million, just above its low $66.1 million estimate but nowhere near its optimistic $97.3 million high. Of the 44 works on offer, 7 failed to sell." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 11/07/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Harris lumberjack painting among highlights of auction
"TORONTO — A Lawren Harris painting depicting a group of jolly lumberjacks returning to their camp on a snowy night is among the highlights of the Joyner Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art.
. . .
'The Return from Town' -- which has a pre-auction estimate of $500,000 to $700,000 -- was painted by Harris for a Harper's Monthly Magazine article in 1911.
It bears the initials "LSH," the earliest form of the artist's signature." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Canadian Press
On: 11/08/11
Website: http://www.ctv.ca
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Rare Clyfford Still paintings likely to earn millions for Denver museum
"The eyes of the international art world will be on the work of painter Clyfford Still on Wednesday evening, when four of the late artist's rare paintings are expected to earn millions at a New York auction, with the proceeds to benefit a new Denver museum devoted to him.
Sotheby's estimates that the works, which date from 1940 to 1976 and offer a cross-section of the abstract expressionist's output, could bring in somewhere between $51 million and $71.5 million." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Denver Post
On: 11/08/11
Website: http://www.denverpost.com
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How Many Artists Does It Take to Depict a Light Bulb?
"It's been cast in bronze, stuffed in a jar and painted by the likes of Jasper Johns, Man Ray and Alexander Calder. Introducing one of the art world's lesser-known icons: the light bulb.
"Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb" casts light on 37 of these efforts, by 32 artists. The exhibition opened last week at the Pace Gallery's 545 West 22nd Street outpost in New York and will end Nov. 26." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Wall Street Journal
On: 11/05/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com
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Devil found in detail of Giotto fresco in Italy's Assisi
"The devil was hidden in the details of clouds at the top of fresco number 20 in the cycle of the scenes in the life and death of St Francis painted by Giotto in the 13th century.
The discovery was made by Italian art historian Chiara Frugone. It shows a profile of a figure with a hooked nose, a sly smile, and dark horns hidden among the clouds in the panel of the scene depicting the death of St Francis." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Reuters
On: 11/08/11
Website: http://news.yahoo.com
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Not A Billionaire? You Can Still Be An Art Collector
"Most of us do not have the resources—or clout—of billionaire collectors Edye and Eli Broad, Norman and Irma Braman or Doris Fisher. But starting an art collection is more affordable than you think and you can take a cue from them and become an arts patron at the same time. Collector and MOCA Board President Jeffrey Soros advises: 'Without supporting a museum or an arts organization, the collector is just a tourist in the art world gathering souvenirs. With the support comes citizenship.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: Forbes
On: 11/07/11
Website: http://www.forbes.com
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Williams's Hillside makes a mountain of money
"The estimates for the Williams painting ranged between $1 million and $1.5 million. The $1.28 million price tag included a buyer's premium of 22 per cent.
. . .
Williams, who died in 1982, is considered one of Australia's greatest landscape painters and is said to have single-handedly revolutionised the way Australians view the bush, according to art critic John McDonald." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Sydney Morning Herald
On: 11/08/11
Website: http://www.smh.com.au
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Teach the kids well...about Seurat and Chihuly
"Heck's 'Artrageous with Nate' [...] puts kids in touch with famous artists, their work and the science behind what they do. The pilot episode of 'Artrageous with Nate,' shot at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and currently airing on WFYI, focuses on George Seurat and the mechanics that inform pointillism.
'I was one of those kids who liked to take things apart,' says Heck, 'So I think that's why in these art videos I want to deconstruct how things work.'
Heck's vision for his thirty-minute program is to help kids engage with art in a new way." [Read Full Article]
Published by: NUVO News
On: 11/04/11
Website: http://www.nuvo.net
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US history museums struggle to update exhibits
"In an effort to boost numbers of visitors, museum and historical sites around the country are searching for new ways to update old exhibits amid a time of economic uncertainty and declining support for museums in general and history museums in particular.
'History is tough to sell,' said Flacke, president of the Fort William Henry Corp.
Updating exhibits often is one way to attract more visitors, but it's expensive, especially for smaller museums and lesser-known historic sites." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Wall Street Journal
On: 11/06/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com
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MF Husain painting fetches Rs.1.45 crore at art auction
"NEW DELHI: An untitled composition of galloping horses by the late M.F. Husain, painted in acrylic pigments on canvas, sold for Rs.1.45 crore at an auction here.
The painting, estimated at Rs.1.25 crore, was sourced from a private collector in Mumbai for the inaugural auction of Art Bull - a new art auction house in the capital." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Economic Times
On: 11/06/11
Website: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Sotheby’s modern art auction beats recession, fetches $200 mn
"Sotheby’s sold an impressive $200 million in Impressionist and modern art on Wednesday, led by a $40 million Klimt landscape at a sale that broke records and helped reassure an unsettled art market.
A day after a dismal auction at rival Christie’s saw virtually every top lot go unsold, falling far short of its lowest expectations, Sotheby’s found buyers for just over 80 percent of the 70 works on offer and often beat estimates." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Firstpost.com
On: 11/03/11
Website: http://www.firstpost.com
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Klimt painting fetches $40.4m
"Litzlberg on the Attersee, a painting of a lake in western Austria, was originally owned by Austrian iron magnate Viktor Zuckerkandl before being passed on to his sister, Amalie Redlich, when he died in 1927.
She was deported in 1941 and never heard of again. Her art collection was seized by the Nazis and sold off." [Read Full Article]
Published by: BBC News
On: 11/02/11
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk
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Sympathy grows for alleged forgers
"The four protagonists in Germany’s biggest art forgery scandal were sentenced a total 15 years in prison on 27 October following charges of forgery and corruption in a Cologne court. The group duped leading art world figures into buying forgeries from the fictitious “Werner Jägers” and “Wilhelm Knops” collections by artists including Max Ernst, André Derain and Fernand Léger. Ringleader Wolfgang Beltracchi, his wife Helene, her sister, Jeanette, as well as Otto Schulte-Kellinghaus, all confessed to their involvement in creating and selling 14 forgeries, which earned them an estimated €16m over the past decade. Beltracchi was given a six year sentence, his wife a four-year term, her sister—named as Jeanette S—a 21-month suspended sentence; and their associate, Otto Schulte-Kellinghaus, a five-year term." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 11/03/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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Anger over Louvre’s plan to clean a Leonardo
"The proposal to clean the work was first mooted at a two-day conference held at the Louvre in June 2009, attended by key Leonardo scholars such as Martin Kemp, emeritus professor at the University of Oxford. 'The event at the Louvre was a genuine scholarly exercise. The work is tricky; there are some rather nasty scars and very ugly, discoloured retouching,' he says. 'It’s not just a question of cleaning off the dirt but ensuring that the internal colour balance is not disturbed.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 11/01/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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After Gadhafi, Hope for Modernity
"'Now we have to hurry to do everything we want. Everyone from his place. Me, from this museum." Fatheia al Howasi, the director of Libya's National Museum since 2007, is soft-spoken, determined, and refreshingly honest in her serviceable English. She is also eager to get to work bringing the museum up to international standards and reopening it to the Libyan public—it has been closed since the revolution started in Benghazi on Feb. 17. Though the capital grows calmer every day, life is far from normal; armed men are ubiquitous and there is a serious shortage of cash." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Wall Street Journal
On: 11/02/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com
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Reversal for Christie’s impressionist and modern art auction
"The expected impressionist and modern art auction at Christie’s New York on 1st November received negative results, as 31 out of 82 sculptures and paintings displayed remained unsold. With a total sales figure of $140.7 m, under estimations ranging from $200 m to 300 m, Christie’s met the same disastrous atmosphere in November 2008, when the art market suffered from the consequences of the financial crisis." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Art Media Agency
On: 11/01/11
Website: http://www.artmediaagency.com
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Painting Phenom Devin Crane. Two Art shows within one week, two worlds apart!
"On the heels of a sensational exhibit at the James Gray Gallery in Santa Monica, Ca., artist Devin Crane was an international hit the following Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 at the Contemporary Art Auction by Maitre Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris, France, amongst masters of contemporary art. The two paintings included in the auction, 'Chole Was Never Alone With Her Paintings' & 'Their Words Will Never Hurt Her Again' were instant favorites and were quickly snapped up as the auction gavel fell. This set new record prices for Devin Cranes' paintings. At the James Gray Gallery exhibition, Devin blazed new paths with dynamic and innovative paintings. It further established Devin's tremendous following in the art market. Following the Paris Auction and Santa Monica, CA exhibitions, Devin will be exhibiting in the spring of 2012 with Galerie Arludik in Paris, France with an all new collection of paintings." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Sacramento Bee
On: 11/02/11
Website: http://www.sacbee.com
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Giant Russian painting of Indian mosque sold in NY
"A giant painting by a Russian artist has fetched more than $3.1 million at auction in New York City.
The 'Pearl Mosque at Delhi' painting was sold Tuesday at a Sotheby's auction of Russian art." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Wall Street Journal
On: 11/01/11
Website: http://online.wsj.com
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Artists File Lawsuits, Seeking Royalties
"For many visual artists, the issue is clear. “We need legislation to enact the right to royalties,” said Frank Stella, the president of the International Council of Creators of Graphic, Plastic and Photographic Arts, “and we need to align it with what goes on in Britain and the E.U.” Literature, music, film, computer programming and patents all have better intellectual-property protection than American visual art, Mr. Stella added. The Visual Artists and Galleries Association, a nonprofit group that seeks to protect the intellectual-property rights of artists, also supports a national law." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 11/01/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Contemporary Art and Question Marks in Britain
"Unlike France or Germany, where funding and important art is somewhat balanced between major centers and smaller towns, Britain has historically kept its resources in its big cities, most notably London.
'There was a sense that we really needed to invest more in the visual arts outside of London,' said Alan Davey, the chief executive of the Arts Council England, which distributes public money to the arts. 'We had an opportunity, with lottery money, to plan substantial capital investment at various key points around the country, but we didn’t point at a map and say we’ll have one there and there. The motivation had to come from local ambition or existing networks.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 11/01/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Are Britain's art schools in crisis, as fees stifle a creative generation?
"Although Universities UK says it is too early to comment on the figures, experts fear that the double grip of increasing fees – with many colleges starting to charge the full £9,000 a year – and the perceived lack of stable income in creative industries is already putting students off creative subjects.
The latest figures suggest that one in three arts graduates is unemployed three years after their graduation." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 10/30/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Italy takes treehouses to a whole new level
"Plans for 'vertical forests' – 25-floor buildings, flecked with balconies full of bushes and small trees – are sprouting up in several European countries.
Fittingly, Milan, the continent's design capital but also one of western Europe's most polluted cities, is leading the way with the construction of two green towers. The Bosco Verticale (vertical wood) project, due to be completed in 2015, consists of two residential blocks, 110 metres and 76 metres in height, set in the Isola neighbourhood just north of the city centre. The towers will house a total of 900 trees, ranging from 3m to 9m in height, plus thousands of shrubs and flowering plants." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Independent
On: 10/29/11
Website: http://www.independent.co.uk
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Kluge, Wasserman Trophies Test Art Market in $1.1 Billion Sales
"A Matisse painting that once belonged to Lew Wasserman and a trio of Maillol bronzes from the collection of John W. Kluge will be among art offered during the next two weeks as New York auctioneers present works valued at more than $1.1 billion.
'Everyone will be watching these sales very closely,' said Jeff Rabin, co-founder and principal at New York-based Artvest Partners, which provides investment advice for the art market. 'Art is a good store of value in uncertain times. On the other hand, art is highly illiquid and if you have financial need, it is not the place to be.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: Bloomberg
On: 10/31/11
Website: http://www.bloomberg.com
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