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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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 | Must-sees during Americana Week 2010
Maine Antique Digest - January 19th, 2010 20:42
Maine Antique Digest's Lita Solis-Cohen has compiled a list of the top museum, gallery, show, and auction events to attend from Janaury 19-31 in New York City. From the Historic New England loan exhibit at the Winter Antiques Show to "Modeling Grace: Two Centuries of American Sculpture" at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, the city will be chock-full of top-notch informational lectures, exhibitions and buying opportunities...Read more | |
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 | De Pury will helm new reality TV show on artists
Reality TV World - January 19th, 2010 20:36
Bravo has revealed the hosts and judging panel for Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, a new Project Runway-like reality competition series for aspiring artists that is being produced by Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker. Art enthusiast China Chow and auctioneer Simon de Pury will be joined by New York gallery owner and literary art contributor Bill Powers, New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz, and Salon94 gallery owner and curator Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, as judges...Read more | |
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 | Billionaire Abramovich buoys contemporary art market
Bloomberg - January 19th, 2010 18:29
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought 35 contemporary artworks for his luxury yacht, “Eclipse,” according to the Millennium gallery in southwest England. While his recent purchases have tallied 200,000 pounds ($326,000), Abramovich is known to have spent much more for Francis Bacon’s 1976 “Triptych” ($86.3 million) and Lucian Freud’s 1995 “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” ($33.6 million) at auctions in New York in May 2008Read more | |
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 | Jewelry, silver seen as 'safe haven' for investors
Cambridge News - January 19th, 2010 20:18
Prices in the arts and antiques market continue to rise with silver and jewellery leading the way, while contemporary art came back into favour following a year of price falls, says the latest survey from the U.K.'s RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). For lots over £50k, the top bracket, 17% more surveyors recorded rising rather than falling prices. In contrast the balance was only 9% for contemporary art, indicating that traditional pieces remain more popular for large ...Read more | |
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 | 1934: A New Deal for Artists
Release Date: 19 January 2010
On January 30, 2010, "1934: A New Deal for Artists" opens at the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh’s East End. Providing a view of America in 1934 as seen through the eyes of its painters, the exhibition was organized to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Public ...Read more | |
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