Flashnews

Wednesday 17 March 2010

Vincente Todolì Leaves Tate Modern

In a press release, Tate Modern has announced that Vincente Todolí is leaving the museum. After serving as its director for seven years he will leave not only Tate Modern, but the city of London as well. He has executed ...

by arcadja

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Friday 29 January 2010

Afro Modern: Journeys Through The Black Atlantic

Liverpool’s location as a portal to the Atlantic and its pivotal role in the slave trade gives a new exhibition at the city’s Tate a particular pertinence. But this is merely the starting point for Afro Modern: Journeys through the ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Monday 19 October 2009

Maharajas’ Mad Lifestyle Goes On Display: Martin Gayford

The Victoria & Albert Museum’s spectacular new exhibition, “Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s Royal Courts” begins and ends with a means of transport. At the start, the visitor is confronted by a regal Indian procession involving an elephant -- a full-scale ...

by arcadja

Art Market

Wednesday 7 October 2009

Fine Art Photography At Auction

New York and London are getting ready to house fine art photography. In just a few days the international leading auction houses, Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury & Co., will be challenging each other at auction to offer ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Art Exhibits

Thursday 6 August 2009

Leonor Fini Returns To Trieste

It has been 26 years since the last exhibition of Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 1907-Paris, 1996) organised in Italy. Now an exhibition at the Museo Revoltella of Trieste, open until 4th October, is making up for this long ...

by Silvia Bosi

Art Market

Monday 25 May 2009

Contemporary Art Astonishes At Blindarte

The spring auction session at Blindarte has just begun. After the sale on 20th May dedicated to ancient paintings, art objects and 19th and 20th century paintings, on 26th May the Neapolitan auction house is proposing a rich catalogue ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Flashnews

Monday 23 March 2009

Andy Warhol’s Dolled-Up, Jet-Set Portraits Go On Show In Paris

The late Yves Saint Laurent’s image is still vibrant enough to discombobulate the Andy Warholshow that has just opened at Paris’s Grand Palais. Pierre Berge, Saint Laurent’s heir, canceled a loan of four portraits of his late partner after he learned ...

by arcadja

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Tuesday 10 March 2009

Dealers Aim For $1 Billion Sales, Ysl Boost In Dutch Art Fair

A record 239 dealers are aiming to repeat the success of the Yves Saint Laurent auction when they offer $1 billion of paintings and other works at the world’s largest antiques and art fair. Dealers said the 22nd annual edition of ...

by arcadja

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Tuesday 24 February 2009

Saint Laurent Auction Defies Slump To Fetch Record $262 Million

Yves Saint Laurent’s art collection set an auction record last night as collectors in Paris defied the economic slump to set new high prices for works by Matisse, Brancusi, Mondrian and Duchamp. Christie’s International’s first evening of a three-day event fetched ...

by arcadja

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Wednesday 4 February 2009

Saint Laurent Lush Collection Merits Preserving: Martin Gayford

It is a shame that the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge is to go under the hammer. True, the auction -- organized by Christie’s International at the Grand Palais in Paris from Feb. 23 through Feb. 25 ...

by arcadja

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Monday 26 January 2009

Dali Lips, Miro Sets Coming To Toronto In Surrealist Show

Surreal Things, an exhibit highlighting the work of artists such as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Man Ray, will be coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto this spring.Organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum, the show is ...

by arcadja

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Friday 16 January 2009

Munich Art Museum Secures $158 Million Private Photo Collection

Ann and Juergen Wilde, owners of one of the most valuable private collections of photographs from the early 20th century, will donate works worth 120 million euros ($158 million) to Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne museum. The couple, who ran a gallery ...

by arcadja