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Virtual VIP Art Fair debuts in January
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2010
For the first time, a world-class art fair is planned online-only. From January 22 to 30, 2010, the VIP Art Fair will aggregate leading international contemporary art galleries on an Internet platform which offers the art fair's appeal of a limited-time event featuring fresh and exicting works of ...
Will Cotton to speak at ArtTalks
ArtfixDaily / August 18th, 2010
New York artist Will Cotton, who recently made news as the artistic director for pop singer Katy Perry's California Gurls music video, is the first featured speaker in the 2010/11 ArtTalks series. Cotton is internationally recognized for his dreamy landscapes often composed of sugary desserts and ...
Princess Diana's necklace stars in Iconic Object sale
ArtfixDaily / August 16th, 2010
On September 24, Guernsey’s will present an Iconic Objects auction at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. Each lot in this extraordinary themed sale relates to a significant person or an event that impacted cultural history. Highlights include the only known recordings of 26 speeches ...
The Aspen Art Museum's new building
ArtfixDaily / August 12th, 2010
The Aspen Art Museum announced last Friday that the second phase of its capital campaign is underway with matching gifts of $5 million, adding to $28.5 million in existing pledges, for a new building in downtown Aspen. City Council must confirm the plans within 30 days, reports the New York ...
Christie's Haunch of Venison consumes Chelsea gallery
New York Observer / August 10th, 2010
One of New York's more popular young art galleries has merged with Haunch of Venison, the contemporary art dealer owned by auctioneer Christie's International. Robert Goff, who owns an eponymous gallery in Chelsea, along with four of his represented artists, are reportedly joining the auction ...
Expanded Crocker Art Museum inaugurates new galleries with special exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / August 2nd, 2010
This fall the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, California, will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming ...
Art & antiques fair renaissance
ArtfixDaily / July 12th, 2010
Art Basel, TEFAF Maastricht, New York's Winter Antiques Show, each is long-established in its own niche as a world-class art fair, drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually, at least some of them deep-pocketed buyers. These mainstays of the art and antiques scene, to name a few, are now ...
Rose Art Museum collection to be leased through Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / July 11th, 2010
The sordid situation which took shape in early 2009 around the collection of Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, a leading repository of modern and contemporary art, took a new twist recently. A contract has been signed between the debt-plagued university, located in Waltham, Mass., and ...
A taste of SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2010
ArtfixDaily / July 8th, 2010
Twenty-eight premier galleries and dealers converge this weekend in Santa Fe for the second annual SOFA WEST, a hotbed of cutting edge design and decorative arts. On offer are fresh works drawn from traditional artisan materials and methods just as much as they reach for new heights in artistic ...
Weekend Destination: ArtHamptons 2010
ArtfixDaily / July 8th, 2010
Now in its third year, ArtHamptons, a cultural star of the Hamptons summer season and increasingly a major buying venue for modern art, is chock full of special events this weekend. Friday begins the first annual Worldwide Art Collectors' Conference along with more than two dozen meet-the-artist ...
American artists top $68.2 million London auction
Bloomberg / July 1st, 2010
Pop artist Andy Warhol led a 45.6 million pound ($68.2 million) sale at Christie’s International in London Tuesday night. Good quality and low estimates were a deciding edge in helping along the 52-lot sale's 84% sell-though rate. Twenty-five lots exceeded estimates. The silver 1963 silkscreen, ...
Paul Thiebaud, art dealer son of artist, remembered
San Francisco Gate / July 1st, 2010
Art dealer Paul Thiebaud, who handled the creative output of his father, the celebrated California painter Wayne Thiebaud, passed away from cancer June 19. Thiebaud, who was 49, ran galleries in New York and San Francisco's North Beach. He also represented lesser known artists and hosted ...
Johnnie Shand Kydd photographs expose the irresistible Siren City
ArtfixDaily / June 29th, 2010
Tough, dirty, and noisy, Naples is nevertheless a charming city that never fails to make you laugh. Fifty black and white photographs present an evocative tableaux of southern Italian life in "Siren City: Photographs of Naples by Johnnie Shand Kydd," an exhibition opening on June 30, at the ...
Art Basel: The blue-chip art bonanza ends on a high note
ArtfixDaily / June 21st, 2010
The 41st edition of Art Basel wrapped on Sunday, June 20, with rave reviews and strong sales. The world's largest modern and contemporary art fair, held along the Rhine in Switzerland, attracted more than 62,500 artists, collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts from around the globe, a new ...
The buzz at Art Basel
Bloomberg / June 14th, 2010
A $25 million Giacometti sculpture, “Trois Hommes qui Marchent I,” offered by the Montreal-based dealer Landau Fine Art is one of the classic modern pieces already causing a stir at the 41st Art Basel. The modern and contemporary art fair in Basel, Switzerland, opened its marketplace to VIPs on ...
June Auctions: 10 hot lots
ArtfixDaily / June 14th, 2010
A dazzling array of artwork is coming to the auction block this June. Sellers are seemingly confident that the upper level of the market is steady and ready for top tier works of art to be sold. "The best of the best" in all categories is in high demand. So far, 2010 has seen the world record ...
Market-fresh Picasso cherries painting may fetch $1 million
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
So far, 2010 has been the year of Picasso in the press. In May, Christie's sold the 1932 Picasso painting of his mistress, titled "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," for the staggering sum of $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is ...
Bankrupt Lehman Bros. to auction more art at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / June 6th, 2010
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is seeking to raise at least $10 million in an auction of its art collection this fall. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge must rule on whether to allow the sale which is scheduled for Sept 25. at Sotheby's. Proceeds would go the bank's creditors. On offer will be ...
MOCA exhibition now a tribute to Dennis Hopper
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
On Saturday, actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper passed away at age 74. As ARTFIXdaily wrote last Friday, his artwork will be showcased in the upcoming retrospective "Dennis Hopper Double Standard," curated by artist-film director Julian Schnabel as the debut exhibition under new Museum of ...
Influential sculptor Louise Bourgeois passes away
ArtfixDaily / May 31st, 2010
Paris-born American artist Louise Bourgeois passed away Monday at age 98 in New York City. She was creating artwork just last week, according to Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio. Dubbed the "the mother of American feminist identity art" by Robert Hughes in his ...