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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, November 12, 2009
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 | Basquiat bombs, Koons blooms at a $74.2 million Christie's sale
Bloomberg - November 11th, 2009 21:36
Price-savvy bidders sent Jeff Koons’ 1991 wooden sculpture titled “Large Vase of Flowers,” to a strong $5.7 million, within its presale estimate. The Christie's consignor was art publisher Benedikt Taschen, who paid $999,322 for the work in 2000. While magazine mogul Peter Brant's 16-foot-wide Basquiat, “Brother Sausage,” estimated at $9-12 million, failed to get any bids. “There is zero tolerance for overpriced or overestimated work now,” said ...Read more | |
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 | The pleasure principle: David Hockney at Nottingham Contemporary
Guardian - November 11th, 2009 21:35
Joyous, funny and inventive, David Hockney's early work was his bravest and his best. What better way to launch Britain's newest art gallery? From Nottingham Contemporary, which opens on Saturday, you can look straight in from the street and see glimpses of paintings: there's Hockney's A Bigger Splash, an explosion of water in a swimming pool on a day that will forever be blue and sunny and 1967 in California, brightening up this grim November Midlands afternoon. ...Read more | |
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 | UK and US Top List of Most Reported Art Thefts
UnBeige Mediabistro - November 11th, 2009 16:04
As writer Judith H. Dobrzynski puts it "If you live in Britain, better hide that Picasso." She's referring to a recent study released by the Art Loss Register that ranks countries by the total amount of reported art thefts. We would have said that Brazil was near the top, given those high-profile thefts and museum embarrassments from a while back, but turns out it's the UK and the US right there at the very top of the list (and the UK has more than double US thieving ...Read more | |
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 | Sculpture expert named as Tate Britain director
Guardian - November 11th, 2009 18:13
Penelope Curtis is to become director of Tate Britain, succeeding Stephen Deuchar, who has been appointed head of the arts charity the Art Fund. Currently curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and an expert in British sculpture, Curtis will ascend to the super-league of British museum directors through her new role. Curtis takes up the role in April – when she will become the only female director among the bosses of the four Tate galleries.Read more | |
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