The Work of Art in the Age of Google (NY Times)
"If art is among your full-blown obsessions or just a budding interest, Google, which has already altered the collective universe in so many ways, changed your life last week. It unveiled its Art Project, a Web endeavor that offers easy, if not yet seamless, access to some of the art treasures and interiors of 17 museums in the United States and Europe."
Germans Move Into Tiananmen Square (Bloomberg)
"As China prepares to open what it bills as the biggest museum in the world, the Germans are the first to get a slice of the action in Beijing."
Five Star Art Collection (WSJ)
"You don’t have to go to a museum to see great works of art.
In Singapore, for instance, there are famous works in the Conrad Centennial Singapore hotel, which also boasts an 11-meter-tall sculpture by American Richard Sparling in the driveway. And the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore’s Stella Gallery displays two four-meter-tall abstract wall reliefs by American artist Frank Stella, as well as Andy Warhol’s “Flowers” in the ballroom foyer."
Monday, February 7, 2011
Thursday, December 9, 2010
DAILY SKETCH: UK Culture Secretary Asks the Rich to Donate |
UK Starts $120 Million Matching Fund for Cultural Giving as Spending Cut (Bloomberg)
U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced an 80 million pound ($120 million) matching fund to boost cultural philanthropy, saying the rich in Britain gave six times less to the arts than their U.S. equivalents.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
DAILY SKETCH: Cliff Notes from ABMB| Abramovich Buys an Island for His Art |
"Art Basel Miami Beach is one big spring break for adults. For those who missed this year’s bacchanal, The Moment has some back-to-school Cliff Notes from the fair."
Billionaire Collector Abramovich Buys an Island for His Art (ArtInfo)
"ST. PETERSBURG— Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is investing almost $400 million to build a new museum complex on St. Petersburg's New Holland Island. With an interest in contemporary art inspired by girlfriend and muse Dasha Zhukova, Abramovich has snapped up pieces by Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, and other artists in recent years, and it is thought that, like American billionaire J. Paul Getty before him, he might intend to house his personal collection in the museum."
Monday, December 6, 2010
DAILY SKETCH: Picasso & Rothko Top Sellers @ ABMB | Confidence in Miami
Picassos, Rothkos Signal Return of Top Sellers as VIPs Cruise Miami Basel (Bloomberg)
"Billionaire art collectors Norman and Irma Braman were hunting for major postwar artworks at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair Wednesday afternoon. What’s important for the art-market outlook: They were finding them."
The Art Market: Confidence in Miami (FT)
"Art Basel Miami Beach got off to a good start in Florida this week, with an increased turnout of Latin-American collectors and particularly Brazilians. The event, which ends this Sunday, has become ever more focused on the two Americas: “It is the gateway to South America,” said Damiana Leoni of the Italian gallery Magazzino."
The Art Market: Confidence in Miami (FT)
"Art Basel Miami Beach got off to a good start in Florida this week, with an increased turnout of Latin-American collectors and particularly Brazilians. The event, which ends this Sunday, has become ever more focused on the two Americas: “It is the gateway to South America,” said Damiana Leoni of the Italian gallery Magazzino."
Friday, December 3, 2010
DAILY SKETCH: ABMB Day 2 | Top 3 Art Basel Events | Spare Hirst?
“Really, it’s all about fun,” the collector and philanthropist Beth Rudin DeWoody said, as the social machinery geared up on the first official evening of Art Basel Miami Beach. "
Top Three Art Basel Events to Attend (StyledOn)
"Heading to Miami for Art Basel? You won't want to miss out on the three most StyledOn events happening this year."
Buddy, Can You Spare a Hirst? (IHT)
"Back in October, when headlines in Britain were all gloom and doom about the pending cuts to public spending, a prominent New York art dealer manning a booth at London’s Frieze fair was grumbling about business. It seemed odd considering that before him stretched a sea of bodies: roaming mobs of 20-something hipsters and middle-aged flâneurs (not a few of them trying to look like 20-something hipsters). Dealers schmoozed with art consultants who were collecting info and photographs to send home to clients who might (possibly, perhaps, we’ll get back to you, love your stuff, ciao!) be interested in buying something."
Buddy, Can You Spare a Hirst? (IHT)
"Back in October, when headlines in Britain were all gloom and doom about the pending cuts to public spending, a prominent New York art dealer manning a booth at London’s Frieze fair was grumbling about business. It seemed odd considering that before him stretched a sea of bodies: roaming mobs of 20-something hipsters and middle-aged flâneurs (not a few of them trying to look like 20-something hipsters). Dealers schmoozed with art consultants who were collecting info and photographs to send home to clients who might (possibly, perhaps, we’ll get back to you, love your stuff, ciao!) be interested in buying something."
Thursday, December 2, 2010
DAILY SKETCH: Art Basel Miami Beach Opening | Squiggly, Tangly & Angular | The Art of Parties @ Art Basel Miami Beach
"If there is an overarching concept for Art Basel Miami Beach, the annual art fair that in less a decade has evolved into a critical fixture on the international art circuit, it is gridlock."
Art Review: Squiggly, Tangly and Angular (NY Times)
"As if in direct response to its overscaled, canon-cementing Abstract Expressionism display, the Museum of Modern Art is also giving us something quirky, speculative, physically light, a show called “On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century.”
The Art of Parties (T Magazine)
"Art, as Andy Warhol famously quipped, is a boy’s name. It’s also a great excuse for a party. There was certainly no lack of revelries to kick off Art Basel Miami Beach last night. Among the standout events was the Swarovski dinner at the new Soho Beach House, the city’s new members’-only hot spot, which drew an eclectic crowd including Konstantin Grcic, Mathieu Lehanneur, Li Edelkoort, Nate Lowman, Hanna Liden, Craig Robins, Pharrell Williams and LCD Soundystem’s James Murphy and Patrick Mahoney.Art Basel Miami Beach (Day One) (NY Times)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
DAILY SKETCH: 271 Picasso Works Found in Garage | Christie's Chinese Sale Jumps 91% | Frieze Gallerists' Tables
Picasso's Electrician Reveals Artist's 'Treasure Trove' (BBC)
"A retired electrician in southern France who worked for Pablo Picasso says he has hundreds of previously unknown works by the artist.
The treasure trove of 271 pieces includes lithographs, cubist paintings, notebooks and a watercolour and is said to be worth about 60m euros (£50.6m)."Christie's Packed Chinese Sale Jumps 91% to $86 Million as Records Broken (Bloomberg)
"An ink painting by Fu Baoshi that sold for an artist record HK$70.1 million ($9 million) helped Christie’s International beat its presale estimate for the company’s autumn Hong Kong auctions with two days still to run."
Frieze Art Fair 2010: Gallerists' Tables (Wallpaper)
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