Art Market

Monday 28 June 2010

Contemporary Art At Auction In London

Contemporary art is reopening in London the competition between the three leading international auction houses, Sotheby's, Phillips de Pury & Co. and Christie's. After the success, in May, of the Contemporary Art Sales in New York, at the end ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Art Exhibits

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Basel Celebrates Basquiat’S Talent

This year Jean-Michel Basquiat would have turned fifty, if an overdose of heroin had not killed him when he was only 27 years old, on 12th August 1988 in his New York apartment in Great Jones Street. Who knows ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Flashnews

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Polaroid Photographs Raise $12.5 Million At Ny Auction

A sale of photographs from the collection of the Polaroid Corporation brought in $12.5 million, setting an auction record for iconic photographer Ansel Adams and new marks for the medium by artists including Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and David Hockney. ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Thursday 17 June 2010

Damien Hirst In Line To Open His First Gallery In Hyde Park

Damien Hirst is bidding to launch his first gallery, in Hyde Park. He and architect Mike Rundell have submitted plans to the Royal Parks to create a gallery space from an old munitions store. They have made the shortlist and ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Monday 14 June 2010

Show Unveils Andy Warhol’s Catholic, Abstract Side

As a pop art pioneer, Andy Warhol blazed his way to fame with trademark Brillo soap pad boxes and silk-screens of Campbell's Soup cans. But a new museum exhibit shows pop art was just a seven-year phase for Warhol in ...

by arcadja

Art Market

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Polaroid, “Instant” Sale At Sotheby’S New York

The electrifying thrill of something becoming instantly image, the delight of seeing family portraits appear on the small plastic lacteous square under the sunlight, the extraordinary result which for Jean Baudrillard represented “the ecstasy of our era”: all of ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Flashnews

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Warhol’s Liz Taylor Face May Fetch $11.6 Million At Christie’s

An Andy Warhol painting of Elizabeth Taylor estimated at as much as 8 million pounds ($11.6 million) is among several high-value lots entered in a London auction as dealers see renewed confidence in the contemporary-art market. Christie’s International said it ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Monday 7 June 2010

Art Fund Bets On Late Picassos, Pop Artist Indiana

Fund firm Castlestone Management is betting that late Picassos and paintings by U.S. pop artist Robert Indiana will help revive performance, after a tough first year in which its art fund fell more than 20 percent. The $20 million Collection ...

by arcadja

Art Market

Tuesday 1 June 2010

In London, Photography Soars Above The Crisis

For the Photographs auctions in London this has been a very intense period. On 20th and 21st May, the spotlights of the art market were pointing on the English capital and the three leading auction houses - Sotheby's, Christie's ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Art Market

Monday 31 May 2010

The Cattelan Effect: The Italian Artist That Everyone Likes

Once again, Cattelan has set a new record. On 12th May at Sotheby’s New York, an anonymous collector bought Maurizio Cattelan’s Untitled – 2001, a bizarre installation which represents the life-size figure of the artist emerging from a hole ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Flashnews

Tuesday 25 May 2010

Alex Katz At The National Portrait Gallery, Review

Alex Katz is now in his eighties, but a new display of his work at the National Portrait Gallery, including a powerful recent painting of Anna Wintour, the formidable editor-in-chief of American Vogue, suggests that he is still blessed with ...

by arcadja

Work of the Week

Thursday 20 May 2010

‘Stolen Pieces’ By Eva And Franco Mattes: Stealing Art To Make Art

The Postmasters Gallery of Chelsea, in Manhattan, has displayed a work realised with chips of rare masterpieces of contemporary painting and sculpture, stolen from famous international museums. It is Stolen Pieces by Eva and Franco Mattes, ...

by arcadja