Art News

CHARITY ON (RED) CARPET

New York,NY,USA
By DAN MANGAN and KELLY MAGEE February 15, 2008 - A star-studded Valentine's Day art auction to benefit AIDS-fighting efforts in Africa raised more than … http://www.nypost.com

Doig's quiet path to art recognition, record price

Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Doig, who moved to Trinidad in 2002, said in a recent interview that the amount spent on the picture had made him feel sick, and did not make painting any … http://in.reuters.com

Art bucks recession fear

Guardian Unlimited - UK
Over at Bonhams auction house last night the world's first sale of urban art saw a Banksy screenprint of Kate Moss, a pastiche of Andy Warhol's portrait of …

At Christies, 2nd highest ever European auction

International Herald Tribune - France
The session was only into its fifth lot when the first of two world auction record prices was paid for a painting by Kees van Dongen. …

Move over, Banksy: Meet the next generation of artists coming up …

Independent - London,England,UK
In terms of technique, the works in Bonhams' sale are no different from those in most art auctions. For all the grunge of their imagery - spray-painted …

Who Will Bring Home the Bacon?

Wall Street Journal - USA
Next week, in London, Christie's and Sotheby's will hold their first major art auctions of this year. Both companies have impressionist/modern and …

Christie's To Hold Inaugural evening Sale of Asian Contemporary Art

Art Daily - USA
Asian Contemporary and Chinese 20th Century Art has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. Christie's November 2007 sales of Asian Contemporary Art …

JANUARY OLD MASTERS 2008

Artnet - New York,NY,USA
It seems to have been worth the effort, as the recent stock market downturn affected the results not at all, and prices were exceptionally buoyant all …

Art houses sure market turmoil won't derail sales

Reuters - USA
So far the spectacular rise in the value of paintings in recent years, particularly post-war and contemporary art, has defied doomsayers who predicted long …

It started with the Big Bang

Emirates Business 24/7 - Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates You must have already read in the columns of Emirates Business that Bonhams, one of the oldest and largest international fine art auction houses in the …

Art sales: auctions weather the storms

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
A sale of 19th-century European art at Christie's in London fell just short of its pre-sale estimate to realise £2.68 million, but the total was comparable …

The Market's Not Dead Yet

ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA
… and Old Master and 19th Century European Art on January 26, which earned $4.9 million, $4.2 million, and $2.6 million, respectively. …

myartspace and HotShoe International Launch "Next Perspective" - A …

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA Juliet joined the Institute in 2006 from Sotheby's auction house (London) where she was the Head of the Photographs Department (from 2003). …

New view: See the world through different eyes. Find out what's …

San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA 828 Valencia St. (415) 970-9900. www.cityartgallery.org. SF "The Annual Faculty Art Exhibition and Auction." Works by current art faculty members. …

Atlantis Music Conference & Festival 2008

By info@sonicbids.com Atlantis showcases are known throughout the industry for featuring the best new artists--95% of which are unsigned--performing in Atlanta's renowned live music venues. Independent artists from rock Rock, Hip Hop, Soul, Country, ...

Spectacular Wows Audience at Dodge Theatre in Phoenixa

Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA Collette Tolen, a makeup artist from Tempe, Ariz., said, "I liked the drums the best. They were fantastic!" Mark Freed, a sales representative born and …

Sotheby's To Auction Jack Vettriano's " Bluebirds "

PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND - Over the past decade Jack Vettriano's paintings have caught the imagination of the public like those of no other Scottish contemporary artist and this summer with the sale of his first major commission - a … Art Knowledge News - Keeping…

Masterpiece goes for a song

Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia THE art world is agog after a painting listed for auction at £300 ($700) instead fetched £205000 and could well be formally identified as a Titian with a £5 … http://www.smh.com.au/

Colin Gleadell rounds up the latest developments in the art market

Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
A feature of the sale was the lively bidding for works from the 1960s by artists previously overlooked by the auction market. … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Saatchi's pledge for new art gallery

Guardian Unlimited - UK
One of the wealthiest collectors in Britain has secured a partnership with a contemporary art auction house, so that admission to his huge new gallery in … >

Netherlands sells 1000 items from national art collection on eBay

By theApe
One thousand paintings, statues and objects from the Dutch national art collection are going on sale through online auction site eBay, officials with the Institute Collection Netherlands (ICN) have announced. [CBC link..] … LCSV4

A proper temple

Economist - UK
A few years ago it was Chinese art that was at the centre of attention. International curators, museum and gallery directors, auction-house specialists and … http://www.economist.com/

Antoni Tapies in EMMA

By chrome3d(chrome3d)
Antoni Tapies in Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Retrospective exhibition of spanish master of abstract expressionism. EMMA is the largest finnish museum of modern art. It´s rough exterior and interior fitted nicely to the textures of … chrome3d

ART MARKET WATCH

Artnet - New York,NY,USA
Among the July sales at Sotheby's New York is an auction of modern and contemporary Indian works of art to benefit the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art in … http://www.artnet.com/