Archive for the ‘modern art’ Category
The YSL sale with totals of $484, 426, 456, is now the greatest single-owner auction in history and second only in all-time high grossing sales to Christie’s multi-owner Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York in November 2006, which had totals of $491,472,000. Auction records were set, thousands of visitors crowded the Grand Palais […]
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Tags: auction, bronze heads, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, faux Chirico, Giorgio di Chirico, history, Le Monde, Le Revenant, Pierre Berge, Pompidou, pre-sale estimate, Qing bronzes, vente YSL-Bergé, YSL Bergé sale, Yves Saint Laurent
Exclusive to Damien Hirst’s new retail store, “All You Need Is Love,” 2007, ed. of 50, $12,000. Could the timing for a new commercial art space be any worse? NY Times: Art in Two Germanys Often Spoke the Same Tongue NY Times: The Boom is Over. Long Live The Art! NY Times: Edvard Munch: So […]
Filed under: Asian Art, auctions, collecting, contemporary art, galleries, London, Los Angeles, modern art, museums, New York, Paris | 4 Comments
Tags: Art in Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, art market, Christie's, Damien Hirst, LACMA, Other Criteria, Phillips, Pierre Berge, retail store, Shepard Fairey, Sotheby's, YSL sale, Yves Saint Laurent
One of the largest single-owner sales of all time is hitting the auction block on February 23, 24, & 25 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé is being offered by Christie’s in association with Pierre Bergé Associés (PBA) with a pre-sale estimate of $280-560 million. The collection was amassed […]
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Tags: Christie's, haute couture, Paris, Pierre Berge, Pierre Berge & Associes, rue Bonaparte, rue de Babylone, sale of the century, Yves Saint Laurent
By Emily Waldorf I first fell in love with Pierre Bonnard’s paintings when I was an art history student living in Paris, wandering around the Musee d’Orsay. Bonnard’s simple yet elegant paintings transport the viewer into his color saturated world, incorporating everyday objects into a blend of interiors and still lifes that almost sing. […]
Filed under: education, modern art, museums, New York | 5 Comments
Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nabis, New York Times, Pierre Bonnard, Roberta Smith, The Late Interiors, Vuillard
Brandeis’ decision has been met with harsh criticism from local arts leaders and the wider higher education community. However, the decision does not come as a shock. David Robertson, a Northwestern University professor and president of the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries explained: “Clearly, what’s happening with Brandeis now is that […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Brandeis University, higher education, Jasper Johns, petition, Ponzi scheme, Rose Art Museum, Roy Lichtenstein, selling art collection, shrinking endowment
By Emily Waldorf I was browsing through Suzanne’s Files, one of my favorite lifestyle resources, and stumbled across a wonderfully helpful and well-vetted list of museum gems from across the globe that I wanted to share with ArtsEtoile readers. A museum gem is a smaller scale collection, frequently housed in the original collector’s or artist’s […]
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Tags: Boston museums, Florence museums, hidden museums, Los Angeles museums, museum gems, New York museums, Rome museums, Suzanne's Files
Timeless Style: The Best Holiday Art, Architecture & Design Books To Give and Receive this Season
By Emily Waldorf With one scandal unraveling after another and the increasingly frightening economic situation, escaping into the pages of a beautifully bound and illustrated book is a simple and relatively inexpensive pleasure that feels right this holiday season. Well-edited art, design, and architecture books never go out of style and serve the dual purpose […]
Filed under: art market, books, collecting, contemporary art, decoration, design, education, fashion, modern art, old masters, photography | 2 Comments
Tags: best architecture books, best design books, best holiday art books, Eric Karpeles, Portfolio.com, Sarah Thornton, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
Here’s How to Rescue a Museum on the Brink (NY Times) What Recession? London Gets New Contemporary Spaces (The Art Newspaper) All’s Not Fair in Miami (WSJ) Modern Art Showcase Expands, Hoping to Revitalize a London Area (NY Times) Rosa Martinez on Anish Kapoor’s ‘Islamic Mirror’ (ARTINFO) From Mexico, with Love and Violence (NY […]
Filed under: art fairs, art market, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, London, Miami, modern art, museums, New York | 1 Comment
Tags: Art Basel Miami, Art Basel party pics, art slump, culture clicks, Daniel Gúzman, Harris Lieberman, London modern art showcase, MOCA, Roberta Smith, weekly arts news summary
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Culture Picks
By Emily Waldorf If you are a Gwyneth Paltrow fan, you will be excited to learn that she has started a new lifestyle newsletter called GOOP: Nourish the Inner Aspect, covering all sorts of fun topics such as health, nutrition, beauty, fashion and culture with an A-list twist. This week she zeroes in on the […]
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Tags: culture picks, Elizabeth Peyton, exhibitions, GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow