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Hirst 'Spot' Painting, Art Owned by Tech Titan Peter Norton at Christie's Inaugural 'Open Sale'
ArtfixDaily / February 8th, 2012
American software entrepreneur and pioneering art collector Peter Norton is planning to auction off additional works from his prized contemporary art collection. The Silicon Valley technology guru already sold off a significant portion of his collection at Christie’s last November, raking in ...
VIP Art Fair Attracts Curious Eyeballs
Forbes / February 14th, 2012
The recent second attempt at the virtual VIP Art Fair resulted in another slow launch as a next generation art marketplace. While this edition, VIP 2.0, did not have the myriad technical issues of the first try in January 2011, actual sales were reportedly disappointing even with 150,000 site visits.
Richter Rising
ArtfixDaily / February 12th, 2012
German artist Gerhard Richter’s star was ascendant throughout 2011 and it looks to stay that way through 2012. In November of 2011 his “Abstraktes Bild” went for over $20 million at auction, making it a record sale for the artist. According to Skates, the now 80-year-old artist is currently...
L.A. Contemporary Artist, Mike Kelley, Remembered
Los Angeles Times / February 2nd, 2012
Known as a pioneering installation artist who put Los Angeles on the map as a contemporary art center in the 1980s, artist Mike Kelley has died at 57. Pending an autopsy, suicide is a possible cause. He was found in his home in South Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday evening. Kelley created ...
Gardner Museum Addition Dazzles Critics, Some of the Crowd
Boston Globe / January 29th, 2012
A glass box-like punctuation point to its original palazzo-style museum, the new Renzo Piano-designed addition of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened January 19 to critical acclaim, with accolades for the functionality of the architecture itself. The Boston Globe notes, "...its sloping ...
Luxembourg-based Art Fund Sets Its Sights on Abstract Expressionists
ArtfixDaily / January 24th, 2012
Wealthy investors and art connoisseurs may be lured into a new investment possibility. A group called the Art Collection Fund is ambitiously inviting investors to join in a plan to buy approximately $80 million worth of art with a potential annual return of 12%.
LA Art Show at a Glance
ArtfixDaily / January 19th, 2012
Lively and crowded, the opening night of the revamped LA Art Show: Modern and Contemporary and The Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic and Traditional proved a popular success. Running side-by-side with the IFPDA Fine Print Fair and a Vintage Posters section, over 10,000 diverse artworks are ...
Ellsworth Kelly, Female Surrealists Headline at LACMA
ArtfixDaily / January 19th, 2012
Two important exhibitions will be opening later this month at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA.) “Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Painting,” which debuts on January 22, is the first retrospective of Kelly’s print work since 1988. In addition, the first large-scale, international exhibition ...
Billionaire Berggruen Gives Art Collection to Los Angeles
ArtfixDaily / January 15th, 2012
Billionaire and art collector Nicolas Berggruen is planning on sending several works to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for long-term loan. Forgoing the idea of building a museum in Berlin, Berggruen is choosing instead to build a collection for...
Guggenheim Foundation Hopes to Open Helsinki Location
ArtfixDaily / January 11th, 2012
The Guggenheim Foundation unveiled plans to open its tenth museum worldwide, and fourth European museum, in Helsinki, Finland. The museum is to be located on the site of a former ship terminal in Helsinki Harbor, with the intention of opening in 2018. The proposal is still...
Mondrian, Picasso Among Artworks Stolen From Greece's National Gallery
ArtfixDaily / January 9th, 2012
In the early hours of Monday morning, thieves struck Greece's largest museum, the National Art Gallery in Athens. Around 5 a.m. a lone guard spotted a silhouette after an alarm was tripped, and went to investigate, discovering one of the thieves who chose to discard a painting by Dutch artist ...
Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionist, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / January 4th, 2012
Painter and printmaker Helen Frankenthaler passed away December 27, 2012, at the age of 83. Six decades ago, Frankenthaler broke onto the New York art scene with her painting “Mountains and Sea.” Later, she would use acrylic paint instead of oils for her monumental canvases, such as “The Bay” ...
UK Dealers Bemoan EU Art Tax; US Lawmakers Introduce Droit de Suite Bill
BBC News / December 19th, 2011
British art dealers are lamenting the enforcement this January of a "droit de suite" which provides artists' heirs - within 70 years of their death - with a percentage of the re-sale price of their work. Also, a droit de suite bill to provide living artists with resale royalties for auctioned works was introduced last week in the U.S. Congress.
Stanford to Showcase Anderson Collection in $30 Million New Building
ArtfixDaily / December 16th, 2011
Stanford University has chosen the New York-based architectural firm Ennead Architects to design the structure that will house the University’s recent acquisition, the impressive Anderson Collection. This art collection was one of the most outstanding private collections of 20th century ...
Virtual Art Buying Gets a Boost From New Websites
Wall Street Journal / December 12th, 2011
A bevy of new online ventures are helping to streamline the process of buying art for both beginners and established collectors, facilitating keyboard-click access to information and galleries.
Record Attendance, Heady Sales at Miami Art Week
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2011
The tenth edition of the largest contemporary art fair in the U.S., Art Basel Miami Beach drew a record 50,000 visitors while the city's anchor fair, Art Miami, more than doubled its collective sales figures over last year and achieved a record gate of 55,000.
U.S. Film Premiere of 'Gerhard Richter Painting' at Art Basel Miami Beach
ArtfixDaily / November 22nd, 2011
In one decade, Art Basel Miami Beach has catapulted from lively newcomer on the art fair scene in the Americas to an annual destination for the international contemporary art set. This year's 10th edition, from Dec. 1 to 4, features...
Clyfford Still Museum Opens with Ninety-Four Percent of Artist's Oeuvre
LA Times blog / November 22nd, 2011
On November 18, The Clyfford Still Museum opened in Denver, Colorado, just nine days after Sotheby's auctioned four Clyfford Still paintings for a strong total of $114.1 million. The sales were to benefit the endowment of the museum which opens with 110 artworks on view from a collection of 2,400...
Street Art Kicked to the Curb
CBS / November 17th, 2011
Art has been allegedly trashed from a special installation in Los Angeles. AEG, or Anschutz Entertainment Group, stands accused of junking the artwork of renowned street artists Mear One, Chor Boogie and Shark Toof. Curator for the L.A. Art Machine, Bryson Strauss, recruited the three artists, ...
Auction Records Set for American Folk Art Portraiture, Botero Sculpture, Yellow Diamond
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2011
Skinner's sold a rare 18th-century portrait for a record-setting $1,271,000 with commission (est. $150,000-250,000) on Nov. 5 in Boston. The portrait of Abigail Rose of North Branford, Conn., broke the previous record for American folk art portraiture...