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Confident dealers offer their best art & antiques in Maastricht; Preview video online
TEFAF Preview / March 17th, 2011
There are 30,000 items worth more than 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) offered by 260 top-tier galleries at the world’s most influential art and antiques fair. Two highlights are extraordinary paintings by Rembrandt and Renoir. Attracting leading international collectors and museum officials, ...
Ways to help earthquake relief in Japan
Huffington Post / March 13th, 2011
Following the devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, a number of international aid agenices are fundraising to provide humanitarian relief. Direct Relief International, for one, has committed an initial $600,000 in cash to the effort and offered $15 million in ...
New art fair finds a niche in Naples
Naplesnews.com / March 8th, 2011
Veteran show organizer David Lester estimated that sales soared to between $10 million and $20 million at his inaugural Naples International Art & Antiques Show. About 80% of visitors to the new 4-day show were locals from the southwest Florida city of Naples, but Lester told Naplesnews.com ...
Renoir to Richter, antique pistols to rare gems shine at Palm Beach fair
artinfo / February 9th, 2011
Nearly 8,000 guests flocked to the gala preview of the American International Fine Art Fair in Palm Beach last weekend. About 40,000 visitors are expected altogether to peruse the booths of 66 dealers, down from 84 last year. The 15th edition of the fair, which runs through Feb. 13 at the Palm ...
Google Art Project could be a game-changer
Huffington Post / February 7th, 2011
Introduced last Tuesday, Google's Art Project is a new kind of interactive online showcase that allows users to virtually browse through some of the world's greatest museums using a Google Street View-like interface. From London's Tate to New York's Met, 17 renowned museums can be viewed inside ...
Antiques Week in New York: Showstoppers at the fairs
New York Times / January 20th, 2011
A bevy of antiques shows, auctions, museum exhibitions and gallery events are underway in New York City through this weekend. At the Park Avenue Armory, 75 dealers in the Winter Antiques Show (through Jan. 30) represent the creme-de-la-creme of high-end antiques. Among this year's show ...
Prices for Asian art ascend at auctions worldwide
ArtfixDaily / December 14th, 2010
Record-setting recent sales of Asian art at Skinner's in Boston and Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco have followed this year's trend of enormous price increases for Chinese art and antiques. Fresh-to-market material helped entice Chinese bidders to Bonhams' Dec. 13 sale of Fine Asian ...
Hong Kong sales reach record heights
wall Street Journal / December 5th, 2010
Art, jewellery, wine and Chinese antiques were snapped up by eager buyers at a series of sales in Hong Kong last week. Christie's raked in $409 million, a season record total for Hong Kong, the world's third largest auction center following New York and London. About 80% of buyers were from ...
Art Basel Miami Beach returns with high expectations
Wall Street Journal / November 28th, 2010
Buoyed by confidence stemming from recent strong sales at New York's contemporary art auctions, dealers clamored to exhibit in the current edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Booth applications rose by 20% over last year. There will be blue-chip 20th-century art offerings, but dealers are also ...
Property of artist Ben Shahn featured in Rago auction, Nov. 14
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2010
Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was one of the most popular artists of the 1940s and 1950s. His graphic brilliance, visual and emotional realism, and social conscience attracted an international audience. The children of Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda, chose Rago Art and Auction Center, in ...
Ferocious demand for Chinese artworks at Fine Art Asia
Wall Street Journal / October 11th, 2010
The Fine Art Asia fair at the Hong Kong Convention Centre wrapped last week with strong sales concurrent with the record-breaking Sotheby's auctions. Dealers who exhibited Asian antiques are now faced with an inventory dilemna---a supply shortage---while dealers in Western art, who offered up big ...
Imperial vase skyrockets above $32 million at Sotheby's sale
Reuters / October 8th, 2010
Sotheby's seven-day series of auctions in Hong Kong culminated in HK$3.08 billion ($400 million) worth of Asian art, jewelry, wine and watches sold. The total for this biannual sale soundly exceeded the $400 million tally for the auction firm's annual Asian sales of 2009. Imperial treasures ...
Pink diamond, blue chip art heat up Hong Kong sales
Bloomberg / October 6th, 2010
The series of Sotheby’s sales at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre have shown a strong appetite for wine, modern and contemporary art, traditional Chinese paintings, as well as the watches and jewelry in the Asian market. Among the highlights so far this week, a 6.43-carat pink ...
TRIO OF EXHIBITIONS ILLUMINATING POST-WAR JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS AT JOAN B. MIRVISS LTD.
ArtfixDaily / September 29th, 2010
Continuing with her on-going effort to present cutting-edge contemporary Japanese ceramics, Joan B. Mirviss will present three consecutive exhibitions illuminating the world of post-war contemporary ceramics in Japan. Never before has a comparable series of exhibitions of this magnitude been ...
Chinese art, modernism transform Biennale
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2010
Smaller, and with a many more stands focused on 20th century art, the dazzling 25th Paris Biennale on view at the Grand Palais through Sept. 22, has taken a giant leap into a new aesthetic in 2010. The New York Times' Souren Melikian calls this year's show "a watershed in the history of Western ...
Splurge on modernism: The Mira Hong Kong
ArtfixDaily / September 14th, 2010
Fine Art Asia 2010, from October 3 to 6, as well as the many fall art and antiques auctions, will bring visitors to Hong Kong who may happily discover the city's current hotspot for dinner, drinks, or sweet dreams. The Mira Hong Kong is the latest jewel in the crown of the Design Hotels chain. ...
New $25 million fund buying up Chinese art
St. Louis Business Journal / September 13th, 2010
The St. Louis-based Xiling Fund, LLC. launched four years ago with $17 million earmarked for investment purchases of antique Chinese porcelain. Managed by Bill Carey, president and chief investment officer of Cortland Associates, a Clayton, Missouri, investment firm with $450 million in assets ...
Collectors' Guide: Asian Art Week New York
ArtfixDaily / September 8th, 2010
From Edo Castle folding screens to Indian miniature paintings, snuff bottles to jade carvings, a vast array of Asian art and antiques is on the market this month in New York City. Each Spring and Fall, museum curators, private collectors, dealers, and art enthusiasts descend upon the city for a ...
Qianlong Period bronze censer hammered to over $1 million
ArtfixDaily / June 23rd, 2010
A heated bidding battle sent a two-foot high Qianlong Period gilt bronze censer to a final sale price of $1.38-million (with buyer's premium) on June 22 at Bonhams & Butterfields in San Francisco. An Asian private buyer secured the rare bell-form vesssel in a strong Asian Art auction ...
June Auctions: 10 hot lots
ArtfixDaily / June 14th, 2010
A dazzling array of artwork is coming to the auction block this June. Sellers are seemingly confident that the upper level of the market is steady and ready for top tier works of art to be sold. "The best of the best" in all categories is in high demand. So far, 2010 has seen the world record ...