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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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 | Bidders battle hard for Chinese paintings
Bloomberg - December 1st, 2009 06:06
Christie's Asian art sales in Hong Kong sent records tumbling. One reason is the new buying power of Mainland Chinese such as Shanghai-based Wang Wei, who has spent more than 1 billion yuan ($146 million) this year with her stock-investor husband, Liu Yiqian. The couple paid HK$7.2 million for a vivid work by Liu Ye, titled “I Always Wanted to be a Sailor,” and they spent about 170 million yuan ($25 million) at Beijing’s Poly International for a Ming Dynasty scroll by ...Read more | |
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 | V&A reveals $53 million medieval, renaissance gallery
Times Online - December 1st, 2009 05:44
It has been a massive undertaking. An entire wing of the Victoria and Albert Museum has been requisitioned. A suite of ten galleries has been completely overhauled. More than £30 million has been spent. But now, at last, the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, with 2,000 objects that stretch from AD300 to 1600, open this week. This is a wonderful display that transforms the V&A from an outmoded Victorian maze of glass cases into a modern museum of world-class calibre.Read more | |
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 | He changed the way we look at US
Boston Globe - November 30th, 2009 18:49
Robert Frank’s “The Americans’’ certainly is a book, one that consists of 83 photographs taken during 1955 and 1956. It is also one of the defining documents of American culture, bearing witness to a larger, stranger, more mythic America than anyone had ever previously presented. The National Gallery of Art has organized a comprehensive traveling exhibition, “Looking In: Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans,'" now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...Read more | |
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 | Tiny treasure takes in a surprise £228,000
Daily Mail - November 30th, 2009 19:07
A vase valued at just £375 broke an auction house record when it sold for a staggering £228,000 at the Welsh auction house Byrne's. The anonymous consignor said the tiny vase had been in her family for generations, and nobody thought it was of any value. But a London dealer buying on behalf of a collector helped bid up the lot which emerged as a rare 18th century Chinese Imperial gilt bronze and cloisonné vase, crafted in the Forbidden City in the style of Ming, but more ...Read more | |
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