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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, October 27, 2011

Ai Weiwei at his exhibition "Sunflower Seeds," a work consisting of 100 million hand-painted porcelain seeds, installed from Oct. 2010 to May 2011 at the Tate Modern in London.

WSJ. Magazine Names Ai Weiwei as Art "Innovator of the Year"
ArtfixDaily Staff - October 27th, 2011 03:18

Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei has seen his star rise higher this month. He led ArtReview’s annual ranking of the 100 most influential people in the art world and has now been named "Innovator of the Year" in art by WSJ. Magazine.

Anish Kapoor, Turning the World Inside Out, 1995. Cast stainless steel. SBMA, Museum Purchase, 20th Century Art Acquisition Fund and funds provided by Eli and Leatrice Luria and the Luria Foundation, Lillian and Jon B. Lovelace, Jr., Smith Richardson and the Grace Jones Richardson Trust, and the SBMA Visionaries.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out and Selected Abstraction, 1940s-90s
Release Date: 25 October 2011
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out, and Selected Abstraction, 1940s-90s, on view now through January 15, 2012. Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Born in Bombay, he has lived and worked in London since the ...

Richard Prince's Runaway Nurse, 2006 (Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000).

Highlights of Phillips de Pury & Company Nov. 7 Contemporary Art Sale
Release Date: 25 October 2011
Phillips de Pury & Company's New York Fall 2011 Contemporary Art Part I Sale will take place on November 7 and will present 45 superb works with a pre-sale estimate of $66,560,000 - 97,970,000, representing major artistic movements across the category. Significant works by Post-War ...

Lot 502: 15th Century Chinese Ming Xuande MP Blue & White Reverse Dragon Charger realized $241, 500

15th Century Xuande Dragon Charger Brings $241, 500 to Lead 888 Auctions’ Chinese Ceramics & Asian Works of Art
Release Date: 27 October 2011
Richmond Hill, Ont - Anchored by an excellent group of fine Chinese ceramics, meticulously casted bronze ware, and a superb collection of finely carved jade and Shoushan stone items, 888 Auctions' concluded its evening auction Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art with a total of $619, 707. ...

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	Spencer Jon Helfen Fine Arts presents a new exhibition: "The Female Image" Release Date: 03 November 2011 Our new exhibition is an important survey of images of women, as conceived by artists living and working in California from approximately 1910 to 1950. This exciting array of work was created by some of California’s foremost Modernists. Whether nudes, portraits or figure studies, each of these ... Read more

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