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Sebastian Smee's The Art of Rivalry Covers Riveting Relationships of Modern Masters
Indiebound / August 16th, 2016
The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee has penned a spellbinding 416-page tome about eight of modern art's most hallowed names -- and the artists' very complicated relationships with each other. The book The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, ...
Alec Baldwin at Odds With Art Dealer Over Alleged "Copy"
New York Times / August 14th, 2016
Actor Alec Baldwin claims that he paid $190,000 in 2010 for a painting that was not the one he requested to buy, reports the New York Times. Baldwin alleges that Manhattan dealer Mary Boone sold him a different work by artist Ross Bleckner, a version worked on up to 2010, instead of his ...
Is Wydr the Tinder for Artists?
Independent / August 11th, 2016
"Adopting Tinder’s swipe model, Wydr’s algorithm works behind the scenes, assessing users’ tastes to calculate what to display in the future," reports The Independent of the Swiss-made app. "Artists on Wydr must catch the eye of potential customers flicking through their tiny phone screens." ...
Artist Peter Doig Defends Himself in Court Over Disavowed Painting
Yahoo / August 11th, 2016
Artist Peter Doig is famous for landscape paintings that fetch millions of dollars, but he has disowned one particular desert scene. Is he telling the truth, or trying to hide from an embarrassing past? A US federal judge in Chicago will decide. Robert Fletcher, a retired Canadian corrections ...
Techie-Style Seattle Art Fair Wraps Second Edition
New York Times / August 7th, 2016
"The Seattle Art Fair, started last year by Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has a proud inner geek," Kirk Johnson writes for the New York Times. Allen explained in an interview with the Times: "There's always this interesting tension between fairly intellectual pursuits like ...
François Pinault Steps Up Plans for Paris Art Museum
New York Times / August 4th, 2016
French luxury-goods billionaire François Pinault has accelerated plans for a private art museum in Paris to bring a bright new spot to the city after a string of terror-attacks. The Paris City Council approved final plans last month for the museum to open in a renovated 18th-century stock ...
Public Art Canceled Just Prior to Rio Olympics
The Art Newspaper / August 3rd, 2016
Brazil's culture minister Marcelo Calero has cancelled some of the art program timed for the 2016 Rio Olympics due to budget cuts. The latest casualty is Italian artist Giancarlo Neri's Bar Paris, featuring 1,415 lighted chairs, which was to be installed in the Glória neighbourhood of ...
Italian Consumer Group Files Complaint Against Christo's Floating Piers
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=88392#.V3F5i7grKE2 / June 27th, 2016
The Italian consumer group Codacons announced on Monday that it would be filing a complaint to the Lombardy region's spending watchdog over the massive artwork on view there by 81-year-old artist Christo, reports AFP. "The Floating Piers" has drawn throngs of visitors to a near-2 mile walkway ...
Thousands Walk on Water at Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Floating Piers in Italy
ArtfixDaily / June 22nd, 2016
Legendary artist-duo Christo, 81, and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, conceived of The Floating Piers almost 50 years ago. The $17 million project has finally been realized, after other sites fell through, in Italy's Lombardy region. Legions of fans -- about 40,000 are expected over 16 days -- are ...
New Funding For Start-Up Curating Art For the Masses
TechCrunch / June 21st, 2016
Juniqe, the Berlin-based marketplace for curated art, has closed €14 million in Series B funding, reports TechCrunch. The site "discovers" art on social media and prints on-demand versions across categories, from wall art to home decor and fashion, with buyers throughout Europe. “On the demand ...
Art Basel Begins With Steady Sales
Bloomberg / June 15th, 2016
Art insurer AXA estimates about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) worth of art is up for sale at the 47th edition of Art Basel. Steady streams of billionaires and jet-set buyers came for opening day of the leading contemporary art fair on Tuesday and they were reportedly in a competitive but not ...
Protests Erupt Outside Tate Modern Expansion
Hyperallergic / June 15th, 2016
Protestors demanded "Where is Ana Mendieta" and chanted poems and slogans as they crossed the Millennium Bridge from St. Paul's Cathedral to the newly-expanded Tate Modern in London earlier this week. Artists' previews for the new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building were interrupted ...
New Yorker: Tech Unicorn Seekers Could Take Cues From Art World
New Yorker / June 12th, 2016
Art Basel, the world's leading contemporary art fair, is on the horizon this week. New Yorker writer Gary Sernovitz thinks this annual assemblage of art world elite could teach some lessons to its tech parallel, namely, venture capitalists bent on creating unicorns, the term coined to describe ...
University of Iowa Plans $60-Million Art Museum
Press-Citizen / June 6th, 2016
University of Iowa officials are proposing a new $60-million museum facility be built to house its displaced art collection. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports: UI's request comes eight years after the Iowa River flooded UI's half-century-old Museum of Art, located along the river's ...
A New Contemporary Art Museum Brings Culture 2.0 to Molenbeek District in Brussels
NY Times / June 5th, 2016
A new contemporary art museum has opened in the Molenbeek district neighborhood of Brussels, and it is being seen as a beacon of hope after the March terror attacks carried out in the city, in part, by homegrown extremists from that heavily Muslim neighborhood. The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of ...
Seven Arrests Made In Theft of Francis Bacon Paintings
Guardian / May 31st, 2016
Seven people, including a Madrid art dealer and his son, have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of involvement in the theft of five paintings by Francis Bacon, worth a total of €25m (about $28 million). The paintings were stolen last July, along with other valuables belonging to the owner, ...
150 Banksy Works From Private Collections Exhibited in Rome
NBC / May 25th, 2016
An unprecendented assemblage of 150 privately-owned works by mysterious street artist Banksy are on view in Rome. "War, Capitalism & Liberty" opened at the Palazzo Cipolla museum on Tuesday and continues through Sept. 4. The artist is not involved in the exhibition and his identity has ...
Ex-Sotheby's Contemporary Art Head Moves to Phillips
Wall Street Journal / May 15th, 2016
Cheyenne Westphal, who resigned as Sotheby’s world-wide head of contemporary art in March, confirmed Thursday she is joining Phillips to be its new chairman based in London. Ed Dolman, chief executive and chairman of Phillips, will cede the latter title when she starts next spring, reported Kelly ...
Kahlo Painting Sets Record at Christie's $141 Million Sale
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2016
An intimate and compelling work by Frida Kahlo, dating from 1939, resonated with a telephone bidder at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 12. The sale's total slid to $141,532,000 with sell-through rates of 86% by lot and 89% by value. The total beat its $134.3 ...
Cy Twombly Tops Sotheby's $242 Million Sale
Wall Street Journal / May 11th, 2016
Cy Twombly's squiggly chalkboard painting fetched $36.7 million at Sotheby's on Wednesday. The contemporary art sale in New York brought some spirited bidding from U.S. and Asian buyers. There were a handful of lots that sparked bidding battles, including a Sam Francis abstract, titled Summer ...