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.
. . .
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 | |
2011’s Biggest Art Stories
"TIME Magazine has designated 2011 the year of the “Protester”, and the art world proved no exception, from picketing Teamsters, to an outspoken Chinese activist, to artists fighting for their resale rights. With sales fluctuating at auction, art forgery scandals, and rediscovered masterpieces - this year proved to be very provocative!
MutualArt.com presents our summary of this year’s top news stories that grabbed the headlines, followed by major award-winners, humanitarian nods and a special In Memoriam section." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Mutual Art
On: 12/28/11
Website: http://www.mutualart.com
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Auction Houses See Increase in High-End Contemporary Art Sales
"'The art market is a place for new people these days,' Christophe Van de Weghe, a New York dealer, was quoted as saying. 'There are Americans nobody has seen before who are excited by this world and who want an alternative to shares. And then there are buyers coming in from places like India and China.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/29/11
Website: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
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Dulwich Picture Gallery saves St Cecilia from ruin – but who painted her?
"The work was bought in 1790 by one of the gallery's founders, Noel Joseph Desenfans, under the impression it was by the Bolognese master Annibale Carracci. Bray said it was "not good enough" to be a Carracci, but whoever did paint it could have been inspired by the Carracci school.
Desenfans and his business partner Sir Francis Bourgeois, the gallery's other founder, thought they had a masterpiece and so wanted it hung prominently in the 'skylight' room of the beautiful home they shared in what is now Hallam Street, in the West End of London." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 12/29/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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How Is the Art Auction Market Doing?
"Over at Bloomberg, Scott Reyburn calculates that the two major art auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, sold about $1.7 billion of art in this year’s evening sales, the auctions that typically have the highest-value art on offer. That is a roughly $500 million jump over last year’s total, meaning that, at least at the very upper edge of the art market, collectors are increasingly comfortable shelling out major money for some works (and sellers are comfortable supplying them)." [Read Full Article]
Published by: Gallerist NY
On: 12/28/11
Website: http://www.galleristny.com
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Preparing Christie’s for a quantum leap
"Christie’s hired Steven Murphy as its first American chief executive in September 2010, when he replaced Ed Dolman (who was made chairman but has since joined the Qatar Museums Authority). Murphy’s appointment surprised the market given his music and publishing—rather than art or auction—background. 'Veteran auction watchers are scratching their heads,' said New York’s CultureGrrl column at the time. Since then, say staff, he has worked hard to win respect throughout the business, exerting a subtle but positive influence on the world’s largest auction house. Murphy, who is based in Christie’s London headquarters, talks to The Art Newspaper about his work over the past year, his plans to introduce 'quantum changes' to the business in the internet age and how he will never shake off those rumours about Qatar." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Art Newspaper
On: 12/13/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com
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Louvre's Leonardo was overcleaned, say art experts
"The Louvre is facing accusations that it overcleaned a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, leaving it with a brightness that the Renaissance master never intended.
Two of France's top art experts have voiced their protest over the cleaning of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne – a jewel of western art – by resigning from the Paris museum's advisory committee responsible for its 'restoration.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Guardian
On: 12/28/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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Old Masters Set Records Amid Meager Offerings
"Record prices were achieved at Christie’s auction of old masters and British paintings in London on Dec. 6. The evening auction reached close to $38 million overall with 73 percent of the works selling above their pre-sale estimate.
The records were made, in part, due to the scarcity of fresh new works coming to the market, with buyers competing over what was available.
Art consignors in this category are tending to hold onto their works during the recession. The vendors are doing their best to entice them to sell with overly high sale estimations, many of which were not met at Old Masters Week this month for Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Bonhams." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Epoch Times
On: 12/27/11
Website: http://www.theepochtimes.com
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Expensive Art
"Some of Poland’s most expensive paintings can be viewed at the Art NEW Media Gallery through Jan. 4. The exhibition is entitled Art More Valuable Than Gold and features works that have fetched the highest prices at art auctions in Poland over the past two years. For the needs of the exhibition, the gallery has compiled a special list of the most expensive contemporary Polish painters." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The Warsaw Voice
On: 12/27/11
Website: http://www.warsawvoice.pl
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Two Artists With a Shared Sense of Freedom
"It is strange that the sculptor John Chamberlain and the painter Helen Frankenthaler should have died within a week of each other — he on Dec. 21, and she on Tuesday — considering that they occupy such similar positions within the history of American art. Both emerged in the 1950s and provided crucial links between art styles, specifically helping to forge the transition from Abstract Expressionism to what lay beyond.
Both brought a new, unfettered approach to materials that pushed their respective mediums toward greater expressive freedom, unabashed physicality and a rough-edged, aggressively color-based beauty. These qualities became identifying hallmarks of American art, especially in the 1960s, but remain crucial to it even now." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/27/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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Another Collapse at Pompeii Renews Fears About Its Fate
"'This is a torment without end,' Luisa Bossa, a lawmaker from the leftist opposition Democratic Party, told Reuters. 'We have been complaining for three years, but the country’s most important archaeological area continues to fall apart. The truth is that the site has been left alone for years and now, a bit at a time, we are paying the price.'" [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/23/11
Website: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
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Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built, Opens
"By just about any measure, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened last month in this small town in northwest Arkansas, is off to a running start. The dream-come-true of Alice Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune, it is characterized by people both inside and outside the museum as a work in progress, with plenty of room for improvement. But there it stands, a big, serious, confident, new institution with more than 50,000 square feet of gallery space and a collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars in a region almost devoid of art museums." [Read Full Article]
Published by: The New York Times
On: 12/26/11
Website: http://www.nytimes.com
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