Archive for the ‘Asian Art’ Category
Optimism and Jitters at Maastricht (NY Times) A Wounded Museum Feels a Jolt of Progress: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (NY Times) Asian Arts, From Robes to Porcelains, Have Their Annual Jamboree at Asia Week (NY Times) Getty Gives in to Recession (ARTINFO) Late Frank Lloyd Wright House Up For Sale (ARTINFO) Armory Show 2009 Roundup […]
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Tags: Armory 2009, Asia Week, CAA, Damien Hirst, Frank Lloyd Wright house, Getty, Haunch of Venison, Hoxton Square gallery, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kiev Museum, Maastricht, Pinchek, porcelains, portfolio, recession, Serpentine, Yvon Lambert
Pulling Art Sales Out of Thinning Air: Gagosian Gallery (NY Times) Art of the Computer Generation at the New Museum (NY Times) Beyond the Armory: Volta, Pulse, and Scope Slideshow (NY Times) L.A.’s Artistic Iconoclasts: “Nine Lives” at the Hammer (LA Times) Strong Suit: Armor in the Art Market (WSJ) Optimism Ahead of Maastricht Fair […]
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Tags: Armory, art fair, auction sabotage, Bridge, Chinese bronzes, Gagosian Gallery, Hammer Museum, Maastricht, New Museum, Nine Lives, opium, party pics, Pulse, Scope, Volta, YSL auction
By Emily Waldorf The first night of the historic three-day Yves Saint Laurent sale already made $264 million, making it the most successful single owner sale in history. According to Bloomberg, “Dealers said collectors were attracted by the quality of the objects gathered together and were choosing to ignore concerns about falling demand at international […]
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Tags: Brancusi, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, Duchamp, instruments de musique sur un guéridon, James Ensor, Matisse YSL, Mondrian, Paris, Picasso, Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, Pierre Berge, Thomas Seydoux, Yuanmingyuan, 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 […]
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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
Treasures of Northern India
By Celine Mactaggart Mumbai (locals still say Bombay) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum While most of the museums in India’s major cities have troubling infrastructure, this one stands apart. Also known as the Prince of Wales Museum, it was commissioned in 1909 to commemorate the future king’s visit. Most of the collection was gifted by the […]
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Tags: Agra, Benares, Best of Northern India, Bombay, Calcutta, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum, Jodphur, Kolkata, Mehrangarh Fort, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Taj Mahal, Udaipur, Umaid Bhawan Palace Hotel, Varanasi
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 […]
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Tags: Edo Period, Haute Couture Kimonos, Kazari, kosode, Suntory Art Museum, The Museum of Kyoto, Tokyo, wabi-sabi