Warhol’s ‘Dollar Bills’ Fetches $43.7 Million at Auction (NY Times)
Zaha Hadid’s Modern Lines for the Eternal City (NY Times)
Some Object as New Museum Trustee Joannou Shows his Art (NY Times)
MOCA Revs Up Chris Burden’s ‘Big Wheel’ (LA Times)
Francesco Vezzoli Escorts Lady Gaga to MOCA’s Gala (LA Times)
Christie’s Sale Brings in $74.1 Million (WSJ)
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Posts Tagged as ‘Andy Warhol’
November 12, 2009
Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup
September 2, 2009
Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup
Pop! An Empty Shop Fills with Art (NY Times)
A Modern Artist Who Welded Both Pen and Brush (NY Times)
‘Personal Meditations’ on the Koran: Sandow Birk (NY Times)
The Travails of Plein Air Painting (WSJ)
His Pictures Belie Lofty Words: Jean Luc Mylayne (WSJ)
Van Gogh Hysteria, Kapoor’s Toothpaste Cannon: Autumn Art Picks (Bloomberg)
UCLA’s Hammer Museum’s ‘Second Nature’ Short [...]
March 23, 2009
Culture Clicks™: Weekly Art News Roundup
East in the Eye of This Beholder: Kamrooz Aram’s New Orientalism (NY Times)
Getty Ex-Curator, Marion True, Testifies in Rome Antiquities Trial (NY Times)
Graffiti Artists Hold Panel With Old Nemeses in Blue (NY Times)
Stories Found in the Streets: Paul Graham at MOMA (WSJ)
A Victorian Novel Set in Stone: British Houses [...]
January 27, 2009
Brandeis University Selling Important Art Collection to Raise Cash
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 they [...]
November 18, 2008
The Trouble With Auction House Guarantees
By Emily Waldorf
This year’s annual fall Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales produced the worst results in over a decade according to Carol Vogel’s article in The New York Times. Although over $600 million of art exchanged hands over the two week auction period, Sotheby’s lost a whopping $52 million from overly optimistic guarantees made [...]
