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Google wins "thumbnail" lawsuit
BusinessWeek / April 29th, 2010
An artist who posted photographs of her work on a website in 2005 lost a case in Germany against Google Inc., the Internet search engine giant. Her lawsuit, which aimed to prevent Google's use of "thumbnail" preview images, was dismissed in Germany’s top civil court. ...
Chicago's newest curator will bet on emerging artists
Time Out Chicago / April 29th, 2010
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago has poached Michael Darling from the Seattle Art Museum. On July 12, Darling will step into his new role as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in the midwestern art hub. Darling hopes “to do the kinds of shows that other museums ...
Clars' browse-worthy May auction
Auction Central News / April 29th, 2010
Bolstered by four big estates, Clars' May 15-16 auction includes some important 17th and 18th century furnishings and a fine selection of art from Old Masters to contemporary artists. Asian art and jewelry round out the Oakland, Calif. firm's sale. Top-notch Western artists represented ...
Remembering abstract painter Robert Natkin
New York Times / April 28th, 2010
Robert Natkin (b. 1930), whose bold paintings expertly melded the abstract style of artists like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky with vibrant post-impressionist colors reminiscent of Henri Matisse, passed away in Connecticut on April 20. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicago-born Natkin rose to ...
Balloon Dog art fabricator shuts doors
Bloomberg / April 27th, 2010
California-based art fabricator Carlson & Co. is known for producing large-scale sculptures such as Jeff Koons’s giant, $20-million, stainless-steel “Balloon Dog” series. The company announced it is closing due to the recession-weary contemporary-art market. Founded in 1971, Carlson & ...
Thousands attend Jeanne-Claude tribute
New York Observer / April 27th, 2010
Artist Jeanne-Claude, who died in November at the age of 74, was honored at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a massive memorial service on Monday. "As we waited to unfurl the first Gates, the anticipation was palpable," Mayor Bloomberg recalled of the famous saffron-hued Jeanne-Claude and ...
'BRIC' auction: Russia leads, China dominates in numbers
Telegraph / April 26th, 2010
A painting by the Russian artist Erik Bulatov fetched 713,250 pounds, snagging top lot position in a £7.2 million sale held by Phillips de Pury & Co at the Saatchi Gallery last weekend in London. Sheer weight of numbers saw China prevail over Brazil, Russia and India in the inaugral ...
Phillips bringing its gavels to Park Avenue
Wall Street Journal (subscription required) / April 26th, 2010
In a bid for the blue-chip art business dominated by rivals Sotheby's and Christie's, auction house Phillips de Pury & Co. is expanding to Midtown Manhattan. London-based Phillips, owned since 2008 by Russian retailing giant Mercury Group, has signed a lease for 25,559 square feet of space ...
Can Art Chicago keep up with the Basels?
Chicago Tribune / April 25th, 2010
Global and year-round competition from modern and contemporary art fairs like upstart Art Basel Miami have thrown a monkey wrench in Art Chicago's ability to attract gallery exhibitors and collectors. Thirty years after the birth of this once-dominant world art fair, Art Chicago, which opens ...
Mess over Marlene Dumas moves ahead
LA Times blog / April 22nd, 2010
A hearing for the injunction took place in Manhattan on Tuesday in a lawsuit allegedly waged over an artist's blacklist. South Beach developer and collector Craig Robins sued dealer David Zwirner for $8 million on March 29. Robins claims that Zwirner breached a contract, telling artist Marlene ...
So-called Man with a Golden Gavel is banking on BRIC
Guardian / April 20th, 2010
Auctioneer Simon de Pury tells the Guardian, "I don't think the market is as jittery as you suggest." He cites rapid-fire bidding at last week's Phillips de Pury auction of 318 works from the estate of Nina Abrams, late wife of publisher Harry N Abrams. The collection fetched $6 million, twice ...
LACMA committee steps up for new acquisitions
LA Times / April 19th, 2010
More than six dozen couples helped raise $1.8 million for new acquistions to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collections over the weekend. The Annual Collectors Committee Weekend has been likenend to an "American Idol" competition with several curators taking stage to passionately promote ...
Deitch to debut at MOCA with Dennis Hopper
LA Times / April 15th, 2010
Former art dealer Jeffrey Deitch has enlisted painter-director Julian Schnabel to curate his first show as the incoming director at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition will be a survey of works by Dennis Hopper, the 73-year-old actor now stricken with cancer, who has had a long ...
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Entertainment Weekly / April 14th, 2010
"Prankishly enjoyable" says EW reviewer Owen Gleiberman of a new documentary called Exit Through the Gift Shop. He writes that the film, made by stealthy London street artist Banksy, "...is an exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become ...
Artnet pushes for profits in online auctions
Skate's Market Notes / April 13th, 2010
After reviewing artnet's 2009 annual report, Skate's remains skeptical of the company's online auction strategy as a revenue source. Revenues, which are largely based on its price database, advertising and a gallery network, were down 5.6% compared to 2008 due to the auction segment. ...
Marc Glimcher sees branding, networking as future for art dealers
Artinfo / April 13th, 2010
In the age of globalization, “What does it mean to be an art gallery?” The Pace Gallery's Marc Glimcher tells Artinfo: "The answer for a lot of innovative people, has been a franchise, a brand. That has been incredibly successful...." Click through to read more of Artinfo's conversation with ...
Oakland Museum interprets the California experience in art
San Francisco Chronicle / April 12th, 2010
To better engage its visitors, California's Oakland Museum of Art has mixed up the traditional manner of art display, replacing chronological order with high-interest thematic groupings. Re-opening May 1 after a two-year renovation, the museum, for example, has a California landscape section ...
Crusader sword, "Lockheed Lounge" coming to auction
Financial Times / April 11th, 2010
Islamic art is on the block in a series of London auctions this week. Among the highlights, Christie's is offering a circa-1400 Crusader sword with an estimate of £150,000-£200,000. FT writer Georgina Adam also notes that the financial troubles of CNET founder Halsey Minor has pushed to market ...
Whitney Museum board debates move downtown
New York Times / April 11th, 2010
When the cosmetics heir Leonard A. Lauder gave $131 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art two years ago, it was the biggest donation in the institution’s history, and it came with one important stipulation: The Whitney could not sell its popular but cramped home on Madison Avenue in ...
Sarah Jessica Parker inks deal for art world reality show
New York magazine / April 8th, 2010
Gallerists Bill Powers and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, auctioneer Simon de Pury, art enthusiast China Chow, and New York art critic Jerry Saltz are signed-on as judges in actress Sarah Jessica Parker's production of a new reality TV show, 'Work of Art.' The Bravo series, which debuts June 9, ...