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The three panels of Francis Bacon's "Triptych, 1976" which broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday selling for $86,281,000 after three bidders vied for it. It also set an auction record for the British artist. The sale also broke ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 15 May 2008 10:46:00 GMT
You can buy a Picasso T-shirt, but obviously, Picasso himself had nothing to do with it. Now you can buy a T-shirt that contemporary artists Chuck Close or Jeff Koons actually designed -- at the Gap. Artists Editions T-Shirts, a limited edition of T ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 10:30:00 GMT
(FORTUNE Small Business) -- The sky may be falling on the economy, but the art market is flying high. Sotheby's spring contemporary art auction on Wednesday evening was the most lucrative auction in the company's history, blowing past the high end of ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 22:27:00 GMT
Sales in the art market this week exceeded even the most optimistic expectations, with buyers at major New York sales defying widespread fears of a market slump as a result of the credit crisis. Sotheby’s had its biggest sale ever by dollar value ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 16:43:00 GMT
At Hong Kong's convention center overlooking Victoria Harbor, a large crowd gathers around local performance artist Li Wei as he shakes and wriggles in an effort to shed hundreds of mirror shards stuck to his body. Nearby, another Hong Kong artist ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 21:01:00 GMT
RENO, Nev. -- Will Bruder likes to think that Frank Lloyd Wright would feel at home in the Nevada Museum of Art. The most famous architect in American history inspired a generation of architects, including Bruder, who grew up in Wright's home state ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 06:48:00 GMT
Thomas Struth, National Gallery 1, London, 1989, Cibachrome print. Space is power. That's the revelation of "Ringling Retro: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection," one of the best advertisements for the merits of the new wing at ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 05:58:00 GMT
The double-header show of John Armleder and Olivier Mosset at the Contemporary is as cool as the wind blowing off a Swiss mountain glacier. That is not to suggest that the two artists, both born in Switzerland — in 1948 and 1944, respectively ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 17 May 2008 08:07:00 GMT
The economy may be reeling and Detroit's principal industry in the midst of a rough patch, but southeast Michigan's cultural sector continues to bulk up. The latest example, following the 2006 establishment of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:13:00 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Francis Bacon's "Triptych, 1976" sold for $86 million at Sotheby's contemporary sale on Wednesday, setting a record for postwar art and contributing to the auction house's best result in its nearly 300-year history. With a $362 ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 15 May 2008 11:51:00 GMT
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