Jeff Koons Baroque Egg with bow sold for $5,458,500 last night in 2007 one of his six hanging hearts sold for $23,600,000
FADwebsite favourite Ben Lewis over at The Times has written an article about how the art market was manipulated to ever higher levels and how it was always destined for collapse,view it: here
Ben Lewis’s documentary The Great Contemporary Art Bubble is on BBC4 on May 18 at 9pm.
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What art offers that design and architecture don’t, is some kind of ’comment’, ’critique’ – messages, to use a simple word – about our society and how it should be.
The current art establishment is a mirror image of the Victorian art establishment, replacing tradition with novelty, pomposity with pretentiousness, sentiment with vacuity, and craft with junk.
And I wonder where one finds the enthusiasm for such relentless repetition of what is ostensibly based on the ‘new’, but is disappointingly the same.
JANET LEE Series Editor, The Culture Show, BBC2
First, considering art of the present, we are in a curious period regarding ‘endings’. The fashion is for everything to be unresolved, you decide, art your way, you figure it out. Everything veers towards the proposal as if artists wish to tick dialogue, discussion, musing, [...]
A self-portrait of Andy Warhol has sold for a record $32.5 million (£22 million) and a painting by Mark Rothko for almost the same amount in New York as big spenders flood back into the art market.
The haunting, 9sqft screenprint of Warhol, created a year before his death in 1987, had been estimated to sell [...]
DAYDREAMING WITH JAMES LAVELLE at Haunch of Venison Gallery 27-29 August 2010 was an eclectic art show with multi sensory- multi media art works incorporating a dazzling array of sound/music mixes overseen and inspired by the much experienced and highly inventive sound/music/DJ/electronica collagist/composer James Lavelle [otherwise known as UNKLE]
This was a show that burnt brightly with new [...]
Image:JETTE THYSSEN Saga 1990 screenprint 90 x 70 cm edition of 170
Unit 2.01, Tea Building (Rocket’s furniture viewing room) continues Friday 3, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September from 12 noon to 6 pm each day
250 original limited edition screenprints for sale at trade prices of £50 / £100 / £150 / £200 / [...]
Image: Dash Snow
“3+1″ is a new art and photography exhibit opening at agnes b’s Galerie du Jour September 9th. Featuring works from the late Dash Snow, Harmony Korine and Ryan McGinley it is unquestionably a must see. Per the press release this is not a “tribute to Dash Snow ” but an opportunity [...]
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago announced that Fashion Design Department Chair Nick Cave’s world-famous Soundsuits are featured in an eight-page spread in the September issue of Vogue. Shot by fashion photographer Raymond Meier and released on newsstands Tuesday, Aug. 24, the photos feature Cave wearing the Soundsuits while highlighting bags and [...]
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