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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, February 01, 2010
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 | Art financier gets into auction guarantees
Wall Street Journal - February 1st, 2010 05:00
Asher Edelman, the former corporate raider who helped inspire the character of Gordon "Greed is Good" Gekko in the 1987 film "Wall Street," has taken up a new position: art financier. Going beyond art lending, he says he intends to guarantee artworks bound for auction, even lower priced works. Also an art dealer, Edelman's brash tactics were recently displayed at Art Basel Miami Beach. He stormed the show with U.S. marshals who confiscated $15 million worth of art from ...Read more | |
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 | California modernism as seen by Leland Lee
Palm Springs Life - February 1st, 2010 04:29
Chinese-American photographer Leland Y. Lee carefully framed images of celebrated 20th century architecture. In fact, some of his pictures are worthy of Lee’s former employer, the late Julius Shulman, the renowned architectural photographer who died last July. This month, at age 91, Lee celebrates his first solo photography exhibition at Michael H. Lord Gallery during Palm Springs Modernism Week.Read more | |
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 | A personal look at an artist's super-stardom
Variety - February 1st, 2010 02:19
Reviewed at Sundance, the new documentary "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child," is a tender ode from one friend to another, but it's also another wheel in the hype machine that persists around the late, famed painter who blew apart the art scene in the 1980s. That it is both at the same time will complicate reaction to this talking-heads-heavy doc. The cautionary aspect of Basquiat's rise and fall was the suddenness of his fame, thrusting him from absolute poverty to ...Read more | |
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 | Reincarnating Diamond: Wittelsbach-Graff on view in D.C.
Irish Times - February 1st, 2010 02:06
The first obituary of 2010 in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper was headlined “The Elimination of Eternity”. The reference was to “Wittelsbach Blue”, an azure 35-carat diamond that once graced the crown of the Bavarian royal family. After paying a record €19 million at auction for it, London jeweler Laurence Graff has recut the big blue in a more modern, multifaceted manner and put the piece on display in Washington next to the Hope diamond...Read more | |
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 - Giovanni 119x160.jpg "The Singer (La Cantante mondana), c. 1884, by Giovanni Boldini Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm) Collezione Fondazione Carife, on deposit at the Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Ferrara")
