Archive for the ‘auctions’ Category
Keeping Art, and Climate, Controlled (NY Times) I Dream the Clothing Electric: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits (NY Times) Valentino Finds Passion in Fashion: Review ‘The Last Emperor’ Film (WSJ) London Sales Feature Prints (WSJ) UBS Stops ‘Art Banking’ for Rich Clients (Forbes.com) Getty’s $100,000 tab for Chinese Photos Signals Bargain Time (Bloomberg) Baroque Bling Glistens in Ornate […]
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Tags: Anne Hathaway, art banking, celebs, Chinese photos, Dave Muller, Getty, Gwyneth Paltrow, LACMA, Leo Villareal, London auctions, Martin Gayford, Nick Cave, party pics, soundsuits, The Last Emperor, UBS, Valentino
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
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 […]
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Tags: art market, art quality, bubble, Damien Hirst, David Wojnarowicz, Eugenio Merino, high-end decor, inflated prices, low-end budget
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 […]
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Tags: ADAA, art world, Culver City, director, Edward Hopper, Fraenkel Gallery, graffiti art, Guggenheim, Honor Fraser Gallery, KAWS, LA Louver, Lisa Yuskavage, Matisse, Mondrian, opening, Picasso, Poltergeist, Rebecca Campbell, Royal/T, stimulus package, Tehching Hsieh, Will Cotton, YSL sale, Yves Saint Laurent
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 […]
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Tags: auction, bronze heads, Chinese bronzes, Christie's, faux Chirico, Giorgio di Chirico, history, Le Monde, Le Revenant, Pierre Berge, Pompidou, pre-sale estimate, Qing bronzes, vente YSL-Bergé, YSL Bergé sale, Yves Saint Laurent
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
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 […]
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Tags: Andrew Berardini, BMW art cars, Chelsea galleries, contemporary Indian art, crisis, crowds, Dan Graham, Frick, Gatsby, London graffiti artist, MOCA, Norton Simon, old masters, Oscar Night, Red Carpet fashion, Yale School of Art Gallery, Yves Saint Laurent
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
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: […]
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Tags: Annenberg Space for Photography, Brussels Antiques and Fine Art Fair, contemporary art auctions, Elizabeth Peyton, Jeffrey Deitch, Kurt Cobain, Napoleon, new look, Nicola Vassell, Shepard Fairey, USC Film School