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Art and antiques evade recession, says Rics
Date posted: January 2010
LONDON. Contemporary art has come back into favour, the survey says. Art and antiques have shunned the recession with prices rising as investors look for "safe" places to put their funds, a survey has suggested.
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Reclusive Artist Alexander Aizenshtat Exhibits at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Date posted: January 2010
MOSCOW. The “Spectrum of life” exhibition by Alexander Aizenshtat will be on view in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Tverskoy Boulevard from January 15. His name is not widely known to the public, since the master deliberately avoids active exhibition activities. FULL STORY ...
Scream Gallery will present a major solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed artist Russell Young
Date posted: January 2010
LONDON. Fresh from his exhibition of ‘Diamond Dust Paintings’ in Palm Beach, Florida, Young will sprinkle a bit of fairy dust over the Scream Gallery in Mayfair. FULL STORY ...
Forthcoming Frida Kahlo book denounced as fake
Date posted: September 2009
NEW YORK. A collection of Frida Kahlo oil paintings, diaries and archival material that is the subject of a book to be published by Princeton Architectural Press on 1 November has been denounced by scholars as a cache of fakes. FULL STORY ...
Athens’ burgeoning contemporary art scene
Date posted: September 2009
ATHENS. Athens Biennale, ReMap and the developing “KM” district prompt an influx of cultural activity. The christening of the Acropolis Museum in June cemented the Greek capital’s association with its ancient past, but a growing contemporary art scene has begun to refresh the city’s cultural profile. Private initiatives in museums and the market are accelerating the pace of change. FULL STORY ...
Modern and Contemporary Art Fair in Delhi
Date posted: September 2009
INDIA. The second edition of the Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, with top galleries from India, the Asian region, Middle East, Europe and the United States showcasing a range of artworks, was held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi from August 19 to 23. FULL STORY ...
How the Mona Lisa almost came to a watery end
Date posted: May 2009
US. Faulty fire sprinkler “rained on” Leonardo’s portrait, reveals former director of Metropolitan Museum. The most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, narrowly missed a catastrophe in 1963 when it was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Leonardo da Vinci’s enigmatic portrait of a smiling woman, widely believed to be Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, had left the Louvre in Paris for its first trip to the US. FULL STORY ...
Facebook is more than a fad—and museums need to learn from it
Date posted: May 2009
US. Social networks and blogs are the fastest growing online activities, according to a report published in March by research firm Nielsen Online. Almost 10% of all time spent on the internet is spent on these types of sites, which Nielsen describes as “member communities”, and they are visited by more than two-thirds of the world’s online users.
This has not gone unnoticed by museums and galleries, with many creating some kind of presence on sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. But because this has primarily been done as a marketing tool, institutions are missing a far greater opportunity. FULL STORY ...
I am Banksy, Prince William jokes at contemporary art opening
Date posted: May 2009
UK. “Before I start,” said Prince William, on his first official engagement in the tricky world of contemporary art, “I would like to admit something.”
The audience at the Whitechapel Gallery, where William was opening the newly expanded centre, must have wondered what was coming next. A confession that he did not really know the first thing about modern art? The announcement that he and Kate were going to get married? Something ghastly involving Damien Hirst? “I am actually . . . Banksy,” the Prince said. FULL STORY ...
Tate rebuilds installation that left the biggest impression
Date posted: April 2009
LONDON. Gallery's first interactive exhibit – which gave art lovers splinters – is to return after 38 years. When Robert Morris unveiled the first interactive artwork to be installed at Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in 1971, he was convinced that the British public would be too prim to engage with the "rough and tumble" of his piece... FULL STORY ...
Peter Blake creates new Venice inspired prints
Date posted: April 2009
PENZANCE. Sir Peter Blake, known to many as the father of British Pop Art, has created twenty new prints, entitled The Venice Suite, inspired by his recent experiences in the Italian city. Depicting an imagined, fairytale vision of the city, the prints draw from a host of source material and were inspired by the artist’s 2007 visit to the Venice Art Biennnale... FULL STORY ...
Chinese Modern and Asian Contemporary Show Strength
Date posted: April 2009
HONG KONG. Lin Fengmian's "Chinese Opera Figures: Autumn River" (c. 1960s) sold for HK$5,540,000 (est. HK$1–1.5 million)... FULL STORY ...
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is looking to establish an exhibition centre in Blackpool
Date posted: March 2009
LONDON. To be branded "V&A at Blackpool", it would be in an iconic new seafront building near the Blackpool Tower. Although the V&A will take the lead on appointing an architect and programming the exhibitions, Blackpool Council (and its regeneration agency ReBlackpool) will be responsible for funding the capital and running costs... FULL STORY ...
Obama signs Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Bailout benefits NEA and Smithsonian
Date posted: March 2009
NEW YORK. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Smithsonian Institution have secured a small allotment of federal funding as part of the $787bn American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama on 17 February, following fears that arts groups would be completely excluded from the stimulus package... FULL STORY ...
The boom is back, at least for one night
Date posted: March 2009
PARIS. The first session of the marathon auction of the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection staged by Christie’s (in association with Pierre Bergé & Associes) at the sumptuous Grand Palais lived up to its pre-sale billing as "the sale of the century," racking up a stunning €206,154,600 ($266,743,437), a result that far eclipsed the daunting pre-sale estimate of €128.9-181 million... FULL STORY ...
French investigators claim to have uncovered a large-scale counterfeiting operation
Date posted: January 2009
PARIS. Led by a Parisian artist that produced fake 20th-century design classics by Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Alexandre Noll and Pierre Chareau. Six suspects, including four members of the artist’s family, were arrested on 25 November; they are accused of counterfeiting, receiving counterfeit goods and fraud. The artist, Christian Duran, died in 2006... FULL STORY ...
Alexander Girard introduces colour
Date posted: January 2009
NEW YORK. Born in New York City and raised in Florence, Girard was educated as an architect in Europe. Back in the US, his break came in 1949 when he designed the For Modern Living show at the Detroit Institute of Arts... FULL STORY ...
Art gets new home south of the border
Date posted: January 2009
MEXICO. Mexico City’s vast new contemporary art museum, Muac, opened to the public on 27 November with an inaugural installation that is as provocative as it is political. The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, to give it its full title, is a significant addition to the Mexican art world, providing 3,300 sq. m of gallery space, which its chief curator, Guillermo Santamarina, plans to fill with large-scale international exhibitions, installations and Mexico’s largest public collection of contemporary art... FULL STORY ...
Rosenthal revealed: a nude portrait of the Royal Academy's exhibitions secretary goes on show
Date posted: 23/05/07
LONDON. Royal Academy (RA) exhibitions secretary Norman Rosenthal’s secret past as a model is revealed in a painting which was unveiled on Friday. Beachy Head, Break of Day, by Jeffery Camp, shows Mr Rosenthal as an athletic, nude forty-year-old, floating above the cliffs. “It’s a picture which is full of the delights of eroticism,” Camp told The Art Newspaper... FULL STORY ...
The
art world backers of Barack Obama
Date
23/05/07
NEW YORK. Figures released last month by the Federal Election Commission
show that Senator Barack Obama raised more money ($24.8m) than Senator
Hillary Clinton ($19.1m) during the first quarter of the Democratic
primary campaign... FULL
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Experts discuss how market appreciation
is affecting art appreciation
Date
posted: 23/05/07
On a recent trip to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s “Picasso
and American Art” exhibition, with two collectors in tow,
PaceWildenstein president Marc Glimcher stood listening as the pair
assessed the works: “‘This is great, this is terrible,
this is worth $8 million, this is worth $15 million, that’s
an A, that’s a B plus,’” he recounts... FULL
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Andy
Warhol's Campbell Soup Sells For $11.7 Million
Date
posted: 2006
The highlight of the evening was Andy Warhol’s Small Torn
Campbell Soup Can (Pepper Pot), 1962, from the Collection of Irving
Blum, which realized $11,776,000 and set a world auction record
for a painting of the Campbell Soup Can series... FULL
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Legal Headaches For DaVinci?
Date
posted: 2006
A Roman Catholic cardinal who was on the shortlist to become pope
last year is hinting at potential legal action that could be taken
by the church against DaVinci Code author Dan Brown and the producers
of the movie version of the controversial book... FULL
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Guggenheim
Said to Consider New Branches
Date
posted: 2006
Thomas Krens, director of the New York based Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, recently held discussions about the possibility of opening
Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi and Moscow... FULL
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