As The Truth About China’s Economy Comes Out, So Does The Truth Of China’s...
A photographer takes a photo as a Sotheby's employee stands beside a painting by Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang entitled 'Forever Lasting Love', . (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) In...
View ArticleWhy We Need Collectors: Talking To Marlborough’s Andrew Renton
Andrew Renton Among the most storied art galleries since its 1946 founding, Marlborough Galleries remains a formidable force on the international art scene – despite being at the center of what may...
View ArticleSix Must-See Exhibitions Opening This Month
c. Rineke Dijkstra. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris Superlative summer exhibitions open this month across the globe, from one person retrospectives to group explorations...
View Article$35 Million Sets Record At Christie’s London Sale
image courtesy Christie's Images, LTD, 2012 The sale of the Countess Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, now in progress at Christie’s London, has landed a record price for a painting by John Constable at...
View ArticleIs Your PR Hurting Your PR?
I love PR (public relations) (Photo credit: Lisah & Jerry Silfwer) The other day I received an e-mail from a well-known PR agency, informing me that art prices were on the rise, with auction...
View ArticleWho Bought Munch’s $120 Million “The Scream”?
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 02: Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is auctioned at Sotheby's May 2012 Sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art on May 2, 2012 in New York City.. (Image credit: Getty Images...
View ArticleWhat’s Sexy, Shiny, Hot, Cool, And Sails The 7 Seas? For €375,000, It Can Be...
It is art on water, sculpture powered against the force of the waves, design at its most dynamic: the hot new motorboat designed by Zaha Hadid for London-based art dealer and writer Kenny Schachter and...
View ArticleGreat American Art Collector Herbert Vogel Dies
Herbert Vogel, who amassed one of the world’s most important collections of Minimalist art along with his wife, Dorothy, passed away earlier today at the age of 89. Everyone who was part of the New...
View ArticleHe Builds Airplanes and Castles – From Vegetables
see photosphoto Earl WorickClick for full photo gallery: Gourd Guy Every now and then, a story comes my way that is too enchanting to resist. This is one of them. Is it an art story? That may depend...
View ArticleThis Man Could Save You Millions – Or Help Discover Them.
True or false? J.Vermeer, "Girl With Pearl Earring" (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Rarely has that question carried such resonance as it does among today’s art collectors, who, thanks to current values in...
View ArticleLost Or Stolen? Lichtenstein Painting Magically Reappears.
Roy Lichtenstein (Photo credit: Wikipedia) For much of the 1990s, the controversy that rocked a then-peaceful, happy Netherlands revolved around an art work: specifically, “Who’s Afraid Of Red,...
View ArticleFacebook’s Censors Strike Again – Is America To Blame?
Facebook logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Is America too puritan? Are American corporations guilty of imposing Puritanism abroad? That seems to be the view of French Tumbler culture writer “Véculture,”...
View ArticleChina’s $13 Billion Art Fraud — And What It Means For You.
If you pay attention either to China or the art market, you’ve probably heard the story: China last year became – according to art industry experts – the world’s largest market for art and antiques,...
View ArticleHow One Art Dealer Can Strengthen Your Portfolio
“At any dinner party,” says Bob Haboldt, “there will be someone who picks up the silver or the china and looks at the back to find the mark. You may not see it, but they will.” Rembrandt van Rijn:...
View ArticleHow To Buy A Rembrandt (Land A Leonardo, Find Your Own Frans Hals…)
Looking to buy Rembrandt for the rec room ? A Leonardo in the bedroom? Two experts offer top advice – yours free on Forbes. This image was selected as a picture of the week on the Malay Wikipedia for...
View ArticlePussy Riot Coming To New York (For One Night Only) To Launch US Tour
Pussy Riot is coming to New YorkCity. Free Pussy Riot (Photo credit: gaelx) Chelsea gallery Lombard-Freid Projects will host a showing of all five of the group’s videos in a special benefit event...
View ArticleOn Art, Love, And The Promise Of The New
Writing about the artworld holds an abundance of pleasures: the opportunity to visit museums before the crowds do; to study extraordinary paintings from centimeters’ reach; to visit the homes of...
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