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Previously published on Decorati.com By Emily Waldorf Art and antiques magazines are getting thinner, auction houses and galleries are laying off employees, and art prices are slowly but surely coming down. The art market has officially entered a recession like the rest of the U.S. economy. As we learned in Decorati founder Shane Reilly’s article in […]


Images Separated at Birth?  Edward Hopper at Fraenkel Gallery (NY Times) A Caged Man Breaks Out at Last:  The Art of Tehching Hsieh (NY Times) Is Anybody Buying Art These Days?  The Mugrabis Are (NY Times) Art World’s Stimulus Package:  Matisse, Mondrian, Not Picasso (WSJ) Guggenheim Director is a Portrait of Modesty (WSJ) Fine Arts […]


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 […]


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 […]


  Why University Museums Matter (NY Times) Contemporary Indian Art Gives Fresh Spin to Yale School of Art Gallery (NY Times) Recession-Related Closures Rock Chelsea Galleries (ARTINFO) Party Pics:  Dan Graham at MOCA, BMWs and Beyond (ARTINFO) Crowds Mob Exhibition of Yves Saint Laurent Collection (ARTINFO) Party Pics:  Andrew Berardini at Dan Graham’s Opening at […]


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 […]


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 […]


  WSJ:  Art World Jitters Ahead of Contemporary Art Auctions WSJ:  Elizabeth Peyton’s Portraits from Napoleon to Kurt Cobain LA Times:  The Annenberg Space for Photography NY Times:  USC Film School’s Historic New Look  NY Times:  Unusual Shaper of Talent,  Nicola Vassell of Deitch Projects NY Times:  Red Carpet at the 2009 Grammy Awards ARTINFO: […]