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Curators, Critics,
Artists & Dealers tell collectors where to put their money
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Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey (Artists' Books at Arnolfini)
Manga! Japanese
Animation at
Louisiana, Denmark
Chito Salarza-Grant
on
Saatchi going Chinese
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Irish Poet
Frank J. Cunningham & Scottish
Artist Jim Lambie' encounter at The
Boston MFA
Barbara Kruger at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
&
Jenny Holzer at Mass MoCA
Kate Sells
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This month Cao Fei, one of
China's most lauded young
artists, will open a city in the
online virtual world Second
Life. Its 10 leased buildings
may be constructed from zeros
and ones rather than concrete
and steel but their prices are
very real: they range from
$80,000 to $200,000.
A
fast-paced, pulsating vision, "RMB
City", condenses contemporary
urban China into an amalgam of
symbols and icons, from shiny
new skyscrapers to the
much-loved panda. "The project
comments on the current
hyperactive pace of Chinese real
estate development and urbanism,
so it is fitting that the spaces
of the city follow the market
system conceptually," Cao says....
Art Patronage Played Role in 20th Century
Minimalist Movement
Fordham University
In the contemporary
world, art patrons are rarely thought to exercise sway over the creation
of modern art works, according to art historian Anna Chave, Ph.D. Yet
the age-old practice of patronage, she said, has been surprisingly
influential within the modern school of minimalism.
Speaking on Oct. 9 at Fordham School of Liberal Studies’ Art in the City
Lecture, Chave, professor of art history at the City University of New
York’s Graduate Center, pointed specifically to a few wealthy patrons,
such as art dealer Heiner Friedrich and his wife, Philippa de Menil, and
art dealer Giuseppe Panza di Biuono, as having revolutionized the
stature and influenced the direction of minimalism in the 20th
century.....
Antiquities
dealer has colorful, checkered career
International Herald Tribune - France
Leonardo Patterson made his first
archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica — a
piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.
It launched a lifelong fascination with pre-Columbian art, and a career
checkered by charges of smuggling and selling forgeries. Patterson has
become known to many in the close-knit world of collectors and curators
as a wily salesman with a nervous stutter and humble demeanor.
"The guy is legendary in the field," said
Michael Coe, a retired Yale anthropology professor who told authorities
that a 1997 Patterson exhibit in Spain included possible fakes. "He has
managed to have a career that is just unbelievable."...
Modern finance
seems a lot like modern art
Harold James for Business Day
IN THE
middle of the financial meltdown, a remarkable event occurred in London.
While the City was shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the run
on HBOS, Sotheby’s staged a record-breaking auction for the works of
artist Damien Hirst, which produced a gross take of about $200m.
Compared with the values that were being destroyed on Wall Street, this
was small change; but it was a remarkable vote of confidence in the work
of one artist.....
Pop Goes the Bubble
in Chinese & Indian Art
BusinessWeek - USA
While much of Hong
Kong hunkered down just hours before the arrival of a typhoon on Oct. 4,
the start of Sotheby's three-day auction of modern and contemporary
Asian art was buffeted by the financial storm on Wall Street. Of the 47
works that went under the hammer, more than 40% were unsold. What's
more, earnings for Sotheby's (BID),
including the auctioneer's commission known as the "buyer's premium,"
were a paltry $15 million, accounting for just 41% of the auction
house's estimated takings for the night. Among the biggest upsets was
the unsold work by India's hot-selling artist Subodh Gupta,
Untitled, which had an estimated price of $1.55 million to $2.05
million. Another big surprise: Chinese cynical realist painter Liu Wei's
triptych, The Revolutionary Family Series, failed to find a
bidder willing to meet the $1.55 million suggested minimum.....
Russia's Mercury
Group Buys London Art Company Phillips de Pury
JohnVaroli for Bloomberg - USA
Moscow-based Mercury
Group has bought control of Phillips de Pury & Company, the New York and
London- based auction house said today in an e-mailed statement.
Phillips's founder and chairman, Simon de Pury, retains his position and
stake in the company as part of what the e-mailed news release calls ``a
strategic partnership.".....
Nonfiction review: '$12 Million Stuffed Shark'
Don Thompson for San
Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
In "The $12
Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art,"
economics Professor Don Thompson nearly gets away with writing more
about the filthy lucre than about the much-more-fascinating hands
exchanging it. Thompson's focus is in the right place, even if he
doesn't always seem to understand why.....
Phillips de Pury, the
art auction house that
specialises in contemporary
works, has been sold to Mercury,
a Moscow-based luxury goods
group.
Simon de Pury, Phillips’s
founder and chairman, will
retain his position and stake in
the company, it said in a
statement on Monday.
The sale comes as the art market
is hitting a peak, with prices
remaining strong in spite of
worldwide financial turmoil.
Phillips did not give a price
but it is believed the auction
house carries some debt, which
is included in the sale.....
Art for investment's sake
James Goodwin for Investors
Chronicle - London, UK
"There's only one indicator for
telling the value of paintings,
and that is the saleroom," said
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841-1919) the French
Impressionist painter. If
artists can provide a deeper
insight into our world, the
themes of health, love, and even
religion are among the foremost
concerns of the ultra wealthy.
These are the subjects occupying
the top of the western post war
and contemporary art market
where average prices have risen
nearly four times in just under
two years, according to the Art
Market Research index.....
Miquel Barceló: The African Work focuses on works inspired by
Barceló’s frequent stays in West Africa, where he has been a regular
visitor since 1988 and where he has had a home, in the Dogon area of
Mali, since the early 1990s. Comprising some 90 works, the exhibition
ranges over the entire period of his association with West Africa,
presenting works on paper – some being shown for the first time – large
and small-scale paintings, sculptures, ceramics and sketchbooks... (more)...
A selection of
Contemporary
Chinese art at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
from the Logan Collection reveals a
spectrum of individual responses to
the utopian dreams that have been
driving Chinese society since 1949.
Approximately 50 paintings,
sculptures, and installations
spanning 1988 to 2008 convey a sense
of the shadows, masks, and monsters
that have haunted the nation's
collective psyche during its process
of modernization. The exhibition
offers insight into the
post-Tiananmen Square art and
cultural scene, and features a
diverse range of artists, including
Ai Weiwei, Fang Lijun, Li Songsong,
Liu Xiaodong, Zhang Huan, and Zhang
Xiaogang... (more).
Scotland's second chance to fall in
love with Impressionists
Impressionism and Scotland
will
present more than 100 paintings by
French, Dutch and Scottish artists
whose careers intertwined around the
end of the 19th century.
A large and
valuable chunk of their output was
bought during the passion for
collecting that swept through the
wealthy industrialists of Glasgow.
More than that, say art experts, the
relationships between buyers,
dealers and artists would create a
unique moment in history... (more).
Harley's latest
launch a museum piece
Legendary American
motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson has opened its museum to the
public for the first time. The opening began with a
Harley-Davidson-style ribbon-cutting ceremony in which a motorcycle
primary chain wrapped around a museum tower was cut with an
acetylene torch... (more).
Art is everywhere in "The City
Different," the nickname Santa Fe has
earned. Spilling out of more than 200
galleries and museums and onto the
town's historic streets. Hanging on the
walls of public restrooms.
It's high
season in America's second-largest arts
market. The world-class Santa Fe Opera
is in full fortissimo on a wooded
hillside north of town. Moneyed locals
in neat jeans and handmade cowboy boots
of gator and ostrich share wine and
cheese with tourists in tell-tale
T-shirts and tennis shoes at the weekly
gallery openings along Canyon Road's
"Magic Mile of Art." Up on Bishops Lodge
Road, they're turning 2,000-degree
liquid brass and glass into hardened
treasures... (more).
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