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Art News - Friday, June 25 |
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+Christie's
Sells $25.7 Million of Bacon, Rothko Art
Bloomberg - USA
Christie's International sold 90 percent of
its offered works by artists such as Francis
Bacon and Mark Rothko, taking in 14.1 million
pounds ($25.7 million) and breaking records
for Anish Kapoor, Emilio Vedova and Eduardo
Chillida at a London auction of contemporary
art last night.
+Sotheby's
Sells Auerbach, Rego Works for $26 Million
Bloomberg - USA
Sotheby's Holdings Inc. sold Frank Auerbach's
1983 portrait, ``Head of J.Y.M. II,'' for
352,800 pounds, including the auctioneer's
commission, nearly four times its estimated
value at a London auction of contemporary
art last night. The sale broke records for
artists Paula Rego and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
+Mammoth
catalogue will record hidden treasures of
public art
The Guardian - UK
They are calling it a "Pevsner of Paintings"
- an ambitious attempt to record details,
county by county, of every picture in public
ownership in the UK.
+Art
steps aside for politics
Globe and Mail - USA
When the satirist grows as celebrated as his
targets, something has to give, and it's usually
the art. Director Michael Moore has become
a famous fellow with a famously successful
talent: Looking every bit the personification
of a mid-American Everyman -- the paunch,
the baseball cap, the sweatshirt, the monosyllables
-- he pops into the phone booth of his documentaries
and emerges as the caped liberal crusader,
the populist conscience of his country.
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+Tehran's
Art Scene: Afshan Ketabchi and Andy Warhol's
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"
Payvand - Iran
Recently I had the opportunity to see the
works of another provocative artist, again
a lady, in Tehran’s Golestan gallery.
I was astounded when I walked into the gallery
last week to see the works of Afshan Ketabchi
whose motto for the show was a line from Andy
Warhol everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
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Art News - Friday, June 18 |
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+ArtDaily
Closes; 8 Years and Millions of Visits.
ArtDaily.com
The inevitable became a reality: that beautiful
dream became a nightmare. The agony of not
being able to pay the minimum costs of this
project: the paychecks for three collaborators,
servers and a few other things. Because we
were four people that worked most of the time
in ArtDaily!
+Bacon
triptych emerges from Tehran storeroom
The Guardian Arts - UK
A major triptych by Francis Bacon is about
to see the light after languishing for more
than 30 years in the store of the Tehran Museum
of Contemporary Art.
+Avant-garde
art gets the flick
The Age - Australia
New acquisitions to Parliament House's art
collection will not be restricted to works
from emerging artists after several MPs complained
it was dominated by "avant-garde crap".
+Legal
action taken to stop Indigenous art leaving
Australia
ABC - Australia
Indigenous groups in Victoria's north-west
say they have taken legal action to prevent
three pieces of Aboriginal bark art being
returned to Britain.
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+For
art's sake, relax
China Daily
Office workers who would normally step into
a pub or gym to cope with the stress of a
working day are being invited instead to sit
in front of a painting.
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Art News - Friday, June 11 |
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+Bacon
triptych emerges from Tehran storeroom
The Guardian Arts - UK
A major triptych by Francis Bacon is about
to see the light after languishing for more
than 30 years in the store of the Tehran Museum
of Contemporary Art.
+Russian
art market: the new Eldorado
The Art Newspaper - UK
The latest rounds of sales of Russian art
have confirmed that this is currently one
of the hottest areas of the market, with newly
wealthy buyers driving prices to unprecedented
levels. This is the new Gold Rush: Moscow
boasts one of the greatest concentrations
of billionaires in the world, and dealers
are scrambling to get their attention.
+China's
new media art more media than art
China Daily - China
People still habitually stereotype art students
as people who are romantic but hardly able
to count to more than 100, and science students
as boring sorts who convert everything in
life into numbers.
+Sotheby's
'sold looted Holocaust masterpieces'
The Guardian Arts - UK
Sotheby's is facing a $1.8 billion lawsuit
from Holocaust survivors who claim it has
recklessly trafficked in works of art stolen
from Jews during the Second World War.
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+Constantin
Brancusi: The Essence of Things
artdaliy.com
NEW YORK, N.Y.- From June 11 through September
19, 2004, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
presents Constantin Brancusi: The Essence
of Things. Co-organized by the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum and Tate Modern, London,
Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things
is a highly selective view of Brancusi’s
work, primarily emphasizing his carving and
tendency toward abstraction.
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Art News - Friday, June 4 |
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+A
bastion against cultural obscenity
The Guardian Arts - UK
In a speech delivered at Burlington House
last night, the critic Robert Hughes calls
for a revitalised Royal Academy to defend
art against the degrading power of the wealthy
collectors
+Sheikh
Saud’s London spending spree
The Art Newspaper - UK
A team of London agents working for the Sheikh
bought 350 of the top lots in last months’
Islamic sales, spending well in excess of
£15 million. The objects are all destined
for the Museum of Islamic Art under construction
in Doha to the designs of I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American
architect coaxed out of retirement by Sheikh
Saud.
+Art
blaze blamed on nearby break-in
The Guardian Arts - UK
The fire which ripped through Momart's east
London art-storage warehouse last week destroyed
all but two of the works housed in it.
Momart said the fire began after a burglary
at another building on the same industrial
estate.
+Sorry
About the Dead Cow...
Reuters - London
British artist Damien Hirst, who uses dead
animals in his work, promised to apologize
for a "mix-up" Thursday, after a
rotting cow was left outside his studio over
a long holiday weekend.
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Review :::
+Biennale
of Sydney 2004 Opens Today
artdaliy.com
Biennale of Sydney 2004 will showcase work
by leading international artists which will
challenge audiences to think and feel. On
Reason and Emotion is Curator Isabel Carlos’
theme for Sydney’s 14th Biennale.
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