Posts Tagged ‘Sotheby’s’
Despite Assurances, Met Finds Artworks Aren’t Restored Overnight (NY Times) Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso (NY Times) For Tapestry, One More Renaissance (NY Times) How Art Affects the Brain (WSJ) A Cultural Agony in a Nation Where Art is Life (LA Times) A Gleaming New Showcase for the Acropolis (LA Times) Christie’s Sees Art-Market Recovery […]
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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 […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Artissima, Chris Burden, Christie's, Dollar Bills, Francesco Vezzoli, Joannou, Lady Gaga, Lower East Side, MOCA, New Museum, party pics, Sotheby's, Tracey Emin, Zaha Hadid
Degas Pastel is Highlight of a Tepid Christie’s Sale (NY Times) On the Block: Traditional Offerings, Bargain Prices (NY Times) Van Gogh’s Personal Letters Debut Online in English (LA Times) New Street Signage Coming for Downtown LA Galleries (LA Times) Psychoanalyzing Twitter at the Rubin Museum of Art (WSJ) Asian Art Worth $26 Million Lures […]
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Tags: art party pics, Brothers, Christie's, Degas, downtown LA galleries, Giacometti, Lehman, performance art, pyschoanalysis, Sotheby's, Twitter, Van Gogh
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) […]
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Tags: 81st birthday, Andy Warhol, art philanthrophy, Eli Broad, Hammer, Jean Luc Mylayne, Kapoor, plein air, results, review, Second Nature, Sotheby's, UCLA, Van Gogh
by Emily Waldorf There is much urban lore about the ambitious and creative women who choose to work in the art world. Charlotte York of Sex and the City fame first incarnated the archetype and it was further developed by Danielle Ganek’s loveable gallerina protagonist in her novel Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him. What happens […]
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Tags: art world, Charlotte York, Christie's, Danielle Ganek, Emily Evans Eerdmans, how to find an art job, hunting, job, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, Sotheby's
Where Art Trumps Industry: Cannes Film Festival (NY Times) Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe: Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney (NY Times) Art Market Optimism: Contemporary Art Sales Up (NY Times) Starting with Fashion, Ending with Art: Richard Avedon (NY Times) Country Club, a New L.A. Gallery Opens with a “NewAgeRiot (ARTINFO) Two More Departures […]
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Tags: Argentina, art scene, Cannes, Centre Pompidou, Christie's, Claes Oldenburg, contemporary art sales, Country Club, film festival, Hess, International Center of Photography, James Turrell, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, NewAgeRiot, party pics, real housewife of Beverly Hills, Richard Avedon, Sotheby's, Whitney, wine
My Dream is for Sale; Buy It For Me: Collector’s Committee at LACMA (NY Times) A Scarcity of Goods Hovers Over Art Market (NY Times Global) ‘HomeBase IV’: At A Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home (NY Times) Great Performances – Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Opera (WSJ) Christie’s Bests Sotheby’s With $102.7 Million Sale […]
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Previously published on Decorati.com By Emily Waldorf It is staggering how many auction house clients, including seasoned collectors who should know better, fail to read the fine print when bidding at auction. In the February 2009 issue of Art + Auction magazine, art lawyers and brothers, Charles and Thomas Danziger discuss in their column, “Brothers […]
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Tags: Art + Auction, auction house, bidding at auction, Brothers In Law, buyer beware, Charles Danziger, Christie's, fine print, Halsey Minor, how to, lawsuit, Sotheby's, Thomas Danziger
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 […]
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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
By Emily Waldorf Though auction houses have never been known to be particularly generous with employees, the art market downturn has exacerbated the industry’s tendency towards thrift. According to Bloomberg, Sotheby’s has fired 60 employees since December, including a rising star auctioneer and a 35 year Impressionist and Modern art veteran. Apparently, the layoffs have […]
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