Fundraising Campaign Reaches £20,000 To Keep Art Center

"Local and international artists are donating their work to a charity art auction in support of Save the Forest Campaign. The event is at the AXO Gallery in Leith between 13 and 15 May. AXO owner Sarah Wilson said: "By bidding in this auction, ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Guardian
On: 04/06/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/



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Sid Vicious' Art To Hit The Auction Block

"These pictures were all done when he was at art college, aged 15 or 16, and were probably part of his course work. "They are watercolours or sketches, and show a completely different side of the Sid Vicious people think of now. ..." [Read Full Article]
Published By: Contactmusic.com
On: 04/06/11
Website: http://www.contactmusic.com/

 

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16th Century Portfolio Sets Islamic Art Auction Record

"The sale price, which includes buyer's premium, eclipsed the previous Islamic art auction record set at rival auction house Christie's last year, when a 17th century Kirman "vase" carpet from Persia fetched 6.2 million pounds. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Los Angeles Times
On: 04/06/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com/

 

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Rec Room Treasures: Special Hand-Me-Down Paintings

"The two 15-by-24-inch paintings, their varnish yellowed and crusted with dirt, are scheduled to be auctioned off May 15 at the Clarke Auction Gallery in Larchmont. While Mr. Maddox said Cropseys of that size have sold in a bustling art market for ..." [Read full Article]

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

 

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SA Art Breaks New Record

"Recently, four new records for South African artists Irma Stern, Alexis Preller, Gerard Sekoto and Francois Krige were reached at a Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers art sale in London. Giles Peppiatt, director of South African Art at the auction ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Times LIVE
On: 04/05/11
Website: http://www.timeslive.co.za/

 

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Artprice: the 2010 Art Market Annual Report - China Winner of the Past Decade

"Over the last 10 years, China jumped from ninth place to first place in 2010, becoming the world's largest auction marketplace for Fine Art and overtaking the United States and the UK, the grand masters of the market since the 1950s. ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: PR Newswire
On: 04/05/11
Website: http://www.prnewswire.com/

 

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The Art of Bubbles: How Sotheby's Predicts the World Economy

"In fact, tracking auction records and auction house stock is one of the best ways to smell out a simmering economic crisis. "As one of the world's leading art auction houses, Sotheby's has been a beneficiary of booms in the art market," he writes in ... [Read Full Article]
Published By: The Atlantic
On: 04/05/11
Website: http://www.theatlantic.com/

 

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$10 Million Painting Boosts Chinese Contemporary Market

"In a $54.8 million sale of contemporary Chinese art from the collection of Belgian collector Baron Guy Ullens, a packed auction room bid ferociously for 106 works acquired over decades by the now retired tycoon. The star lot was Zhang's early 1988 work ..." [Read Full Article]

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

 

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Auction Houses In Duel Under The Sun

"Eighteen million dollars (£11.2 million) of art and jewellery goes up for auction in Dubai this month as Bonhams and Christie's go head to head in a duel under the sun. By Colin Gleadell 12:09PM BST 05 Apr 2011 But the strategies and contents of the ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Telegraph.co.uk
On: 04/05/11
Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

 

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As Party Princess, It's Marina Abramović's Moment

"The dour, serious performance artist is the hot guest and sometime host of this spring's slew of art-world benefits, co-chairing an event for Exit Art, being honored at a bacchanalia at Capitale and donating art to Creative Time, ..." [Read Full Article]


Published By: Katherine Clarke
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://www.observer.com/

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Museum Gives Out Fake Drugs In Art Exhibit Experiment

"The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Taipei assured the public Tuesday that all of its exhibitions follow law and safety regulations in the wake of a controversial art show that was staged April 3. The show involved a local ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Focus Taiwan News Channel
On: 05/04/11
Website: http://focustaiwan.tw/

 

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Ai Weiwei's Public Art Project In Manhattan To Proceed As Planned

"The installation of Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, a 12-piece sculpture to be installed at the Pulitzer Fountain near the Plaza Hotel and Central Park, 'will go forward even if Mr. Ai, who was detained by Chinese authorities on Sunday, is unable to be present.'" [Read Full Article]

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

 

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Triptych Sets Chinese Art Record

"A three-panel oil painting by artist Zhang Xiaogang has sold for 79m Hong Kong dollars (£6.3m) - a record auction price for Chinese contemporary art. The 1988 work, Forever Lasting Love, shows half-naked figures in an arid landscape surrounded by ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: BBC News
On: 04/04/11
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/

 

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What If The Stuckists Are Right About Contemporary British Art?

"There is a palpable tension between painters and the current - inaccurate - British idea of what modern art is. If you reject the notion that physical skill, natural talent or technical training have any value as art in themselves, then painters are screwed." [Read Full Article]

Posted By: The Guardian (UK)
On: 04/03/11
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

 

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China's New History Museum Writes Its Own History

"China spent more than a decade and nearly $400 million to remake the National Museum into a leading showcase of history and culture, a monument to its rising power no less grand -- it is designed to be the world's largest museum under one roof -- and more enduring than the Olympic Games it hosted in 2008. But one tradition has remained firmly in place: China will not confront its own history." [Read Full Article]

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

 

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The Larry Gagosian Empire

"As the contemporary art market rebounds from the recession, Mr. Gagosian's art empire is exploding. In the last few years, he has opened new galleries in London, Paris, Rome, Geneva, Athens and Hong Kong, expanding his global art network to 11 galleries world-wide--the largest blue-chip franchise ever attempted in the industry." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal
On: 04/01/11
Website:http://online.wsj.com/

 

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LA Museum Attendance Lags

"Only two Southern California institutions, the Getty Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, made the top-100 list in the Art Newspaper's international survey of museum attendance. With 1,205,685 visitors last year, the Getty came in 33rd, behind not just the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with more than 5 million but also San Francisco's De Young Museum with 2 million and the Art Institute of Chicago at 1.6 million." [Read Full Article]

Published By: LA Times
On: 03/30/11
Website: http://www.latimes.com/

 

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The 2010 List: The World's Most-Attended Museum Shows

"The survey of 2010 exhibitions is more international than ever, featuring for the first time figures from several Brazilian and Korean venues. Japanese museums retain the top spots in the exhibition survey." [Read Full Article]

Published By: The Art Newspaper
On: 03/30/11
Website: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/

 

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Popular Open Air Fine Arts Festival Returns to Little Italy April 30, May 1

"Mission Federal ArtWalk has partnered with organizations including the Little Italy Association, the City of San Diego, the County of San Diego, CCDC, San Diego Museum of Art, and the San Diego Visual Arts Network to create a spectacular event that ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Mission Valley News
On: 04/01/11
Website: http://www.missionvalleynews.com/

 

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The Art and Music Worlds, Compared

"A few months ago, Alex Ross, The New Yorker's music critic, lamented the way that audiences have embraced modern art, but spurned modern music. People flock to museums to see challenging modern visual art, like Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollack -- so why ..." [Read Full Article]

Published By: Boston Globe
On: 03/28/11
Website: http://www.boston.com/

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