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The 3rd India Art Summit (NY Times) Colbert Portrait, with Art World Input to be Sold at Auction (NY Times) Dispute Over Jewish Archive Derails Russian Art Loans to US (NY Times) Google’s Art of Technology (WSJ) VIP Art Fair Gets Negative Press as Top Works Go Unsold (Bloomberg) What Artists Think About When […]
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Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century (NY Times) Kiki Smith: Works in Glass (NY Times) J.M.W. Turner’s Last Rome Painting to Be Sold (NY Times) Jeff Koons Curator’s Debut Features Candy Giants, Jesus: Review (Bloomberg) Anish Kapoor to Design $29 Million Olympic Tower (Bloomberg) Cy Twombly: Hitting the Louvre Ceiling (LA Times) Review: ‘Leonardo […]
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Tags: 21st century, Anish Kapoor, Carla Bruni, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Cy Twombly, Getty Museum, J.M.W. Turner, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, London Olympics, Louvre, Olympic Tower, painting, USC, William Kentridge
Jeff Koons, one of the world’s most famous living artists, is well-known for his inflatable lobsters, puppy dogs, and porn stars but he is also a passionate and very private collector of Old Masters and blue-chip 19th and 20th century works. In addition to being an avid collector, Mr. Koons can now add curator to […]
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Tags: Dakis Joannou, Jeff Koons, New Museum of Contemporary Art, private collection, Skin Fruit
Bustling Armory Opening Heralds Contemporary Art Market Resurgence (ARTINFO) The AI Interview: Alex Katz (ARTINFO) Buyer of Giacometti Sculpture is Revealed (NY Times) The Koons Collection (NY Times) Anger and Angst, Explored with Animation by William Kentridge (NY Times) At the Hammer, Louisa Lambri Makes Herself at Home (LA Times) Richard Wyatt’s Reunion with His […]
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Jeff Koons: New Paintings at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills features ten oil on canvas paintings that breath new life into Koons’ tradition of questioning taste, banality, sexuality, and consumerism. The multilayered paintings are either 9 x 12 feet or 9 x 7 feet and the dominant colors are graffiti tinged silver, verdant green, and […]
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Koons and a Sailor Man in London (NY Times) Sketch to Stage: Modern Designs for Theater and Opera at Morgan Library (NY Times) Artist Dash Snow Dead of Drug Overdose (ARTINFO) Decoration, Trompe l’Oeil, and Soft Porn at ArtHamptons (ARTINFO) Bon Jovi, ‘Real Housewives,’ Few Buyers Attend ArtHamptons (Bloomberg) Art Dealer Lawrence Salander Indicted for […]
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Art Imitating Lunch at the Venice Biennale (NY Times) ArtHamptons: Twice As Much Art as Last Year (NY Times) Where Art Meets Social Networking Sites (NY Times) Live-Tweeting from “Summer Scoops Live”: Cai Guo-Qiang and Shen Wei (WSJ) Michael Jackson Portrait by Warhol Offered for $800,000 Minimum (Bloomberg) Sarah Jessica Parker on Bringing Art to […]
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Previously published on Decorati.com By Emily Waldorf Profits are down at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, but business in their private sales departments has doubled. Selling privately is very attractive now since it is quick, confidential, and avoids the inherent production costs and time delay of selling at auction. Carol Vogel wrote an article in The New […]
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Previously published on Decorati.com By Emily Waldorf Did you know that Jeff Koons, John Currin, and Damien Hirst all collect Old Masters? In a follow up to my post, “The Recession’s Silver Lining: Art Quality & Value Improve,” I wanted to pinpoint where exactly quality and value are to be found in an uncertain market. […]
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By Emily Waldorf This year’s annual fall Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales produced the worst results in over a decade according to Carol Vogel’s article in The New York Times. Although over $600 million of art exchanged hands over the two week auction period, Sotheby’s lost a whopping $52 million from overly optimistic guarantees […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Carol Vogel, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Edward Dolman, fall auctions, guarantees, Jeff Koons, Kazemir Malevich, Peter Doig, Ruprecht, Sotheby's, Takashi Murakami