Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction took place this evening and realised £19,063,350 $31,778,604 €22,513,816 selling 88% by lot and 86% by value.

The top price was paid for Night Playground by Peter Doig (b.1959), 1997/98, an exemplary large scale painting described by the artist as one of his own favourites. It was offered at auction for {...}

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From 22nd May
Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Henry Tang, at the opening ceremony of “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art said, “During my visit to Paris last year, we reached an agreement with LVMH to bring the “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” Exhibition to Hong {...}

AnnaKustera present the first solo exhibition in New York of Stuart Semple. The artist will show a series of new, large-scale paintings and installation pieces dramatically inspired and conceptually informed by his obsession with the reproduced and constructed image. Remarkably original, Semple carries the Pop Art tradition to a new, highly relevant and {...}

Edited Highlights from FADwebsite;
Antony Gormley’s One & Other
Gormley’s project to put Britons on display on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square opens for business, 24/7, on July 6 (until Oct 14).

Jeff Koons
The controversial American post-pop artist comes to the Serpentine (July 2-Sept 13) with his Popeye Series sculptures.

Royal gems at The V&A
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Jeff Koons: Popeye Series, 2 July – 13 September 2009
The Serpentine Gallery presents the first survey of a key series of works by the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons. The Popeye Series incorporates ideas that are central to the artist’s work, including surreal combinations of everyday objects, art historical references and children’s toys. The paintings in the Popeye Series combine disparate {...}

the PIG presents
JIM DRAIN,PAUL CHAN,JEFF KOONS,MARIO GRUBISIC ,PAOLA PIVI
GELATIN,SIMON MARTIN,ROBERTO CUOGHI

April 25 - August 9, 2009
Opening Saturday, April 25, 7 - 10 PM
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www.moma.org
$10; members $8; seniors, students and museum staff $5. Rachel Harrison, Jeff Koons and Friedrich Petzel are among the artists and dealers who will interview each other about their experiences with artist Martin Kippenberger.

The Tate galleries have made hundreds of video and audio downloads available for free on iTunes.
More than 400 files are now on iTunes U - a section of the online store which features educational content.

Projects include a series of films that use social networking site Twitter to bring the audience’s questions directly to artists like David Hockney.
There are also recent interviews with {...}