Archive for September, 2008
By Emily Waldorf If money were no object, which works of art would you pick out from the 20th century to create the ne plus ultra in art collections? Private art advisers Franck Giraud and Philippe Ségalot of the New York and Paris based art consultancy Giraud.Pissarro.Ségalot (François Pinault is a client) take a stab […]
Filed under: art market, books, collecting, contemporary art, modern art, reviews | 2 Comments
Tags: Franck Giraud, Philippe Ségalot, The Impossible Collection
By Emily Waldorf ArtForum’s Kate Sutton reports live from the scene in Moscow at the A-list openings of the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov retrospective at Dasha Zhukova‘s Center for Contemporary Culture and Gagosian Gallery’s exhibition, for what you are about to receive. According to Bloomberg, Gagosian makes half of all global sales to Russians. Click […]
Filed under: art market, celebs, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, non profit spaces | 1 Comment
Tags: Anselm Reyle, art party pictures, Center for Contemporary Culture, Dasha Zhukova, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Kate Sutton, Moscow Gagosian, Piotr Uklanski, Victoria Gelfand
By Emily Waldorf The charming, bubbly, and Brown educated Alie Waldman has been in the design business since 2004 and opened her own store, Alie Waldman Home Couture, in January 2007. As a design student at FIDM, the self described “people-person” worked for Amy Devault and Brunschwig & Fils. While completing her thesis, she serendipitously […]
Filed under: antiques, celebs, dealers, decoration, design, Los Angeles | 11 Comments
Tags: Alie Waldman, Alie Waldman Home Couture, Amy Devault, Brenda Antin, Celerie Kemble, David Houck, Houck Construction, L.A. design, Tim Cyran, Vicente Wolf, West Hollywood
By Katie Enna Damien Hirst’s latest antic has been all the talk of the auction world this past week. His exhibition “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” and subsequent sale on Monday and Tuesday at Sotheby’s in London made auction history. Historically auction houses have been secondary dealers, respecting the contemporary galleries who sell an artist’s […]
Filed under: art market, auctions, celebs, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, London | 4 Comments
Tags: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Gagosian, Haunch of Venison, Jay Jopling, Sotheby's, White Cube
By Emily Waldorf For better or worse, the art market continues to defy expectations in the face of a dramatically declining economy. Damien Hirst’s groundbreaking Sotheby’s “artist direct to auction” sale beat expectations, with many lots exceeding their high estimates. His famous shark sold for $17.2 million and his golden calf for a mind boggling $18.6 […]
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Tags: Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Damien Hirst auction results, Golden Calf, Hirst shark, Ivor Braka, Sotheby's, Wall Street losses 2001
By Laura Gatewood I recently had the opportunity to visit Japan and while there had the good fortune to attend not one, but two exhibitions exploring the role of decoration in Japanese culture. Contrary to the widely held assumption that minimalism or simplicity, known as wabi-sabi, is the primary motivation throughout Japan’s decorative history, both the Museum of […]
Filed under: antiques, Asian Art, decoration, design, museums, travel | 11 Comments
Tags: Edo Period, Haute Couture Kimonos, Kazari, kosode, Suntory Art Museum, The Museum of Kyoto, Tokyo, wabi-sabi
