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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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 | Art Moscow Opens: Russian art fair hopes billionaires will be back buying
Bloomberg - September 23rd, 2009 01:08
Russia’s biggest contemporary-art fair opens tonight, trying to lure billionaire collectors after a year in which they reduced purchases as their wealth declined. Art Moscow, showing works from 40 Russian and international galleries, was postponed from May by its organizer, Expo Park Exhibition Projects Ltd., to coincide with the state-run Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.Read more | |
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 | Gifts Between Great Artists: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg at auction
New York Times Art - September 22nd, 2009 17:56
On Nov. 10 and 11, Christie’s will auction a painting by Jasper Johns, works by Robert Rauschenberg, and other presents given to Merce Cunningham, the dancer and choreographer who died in July. Property from Cunningham's partner in work and life, the composer John Cage, who died in 1992, are part of the sale. Expected to total $3.5 million to $5 million, the sale will benefit the Merce Cunningham Trust which preserves the dancer's legacy... Read more | |
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 | D.C.'s Gone Postal: Pimco founder gives $8 million to National Postal Museum
Bloomberg - September 23rd, 2009 01:19
Bill Gross, the founder of Pacific Investment Management Co. and an avid stamp collector, has given $8 million to the National Postal Museum in Washington to create a gallery that will exhibit some of his most prized acquisitions. The 12,000-square-foot William H. Gross Stamp Gallery will house three rare items on loan from his collection, including a letter-carrying envelope from the Pony Express service and a block of four 1918 “Inverted Jennys" stamps...Read more | |
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 | He Helped Focus LA's Modern Image: Julius Shulman memorialized
LA Times Arts - September 21st, 2009 23:58
Over the weekend, architects, photographers, curators, historians, family members and a few celebrities paid tribute to the man who helped shape LA's architectural image. Before his death in July, photographer Julius Shulman was the greatest living symbol of the idea that Los Angeles and its architecture were synonymous with both expansion and innovation...
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