What Sold at the Dallas Art Fair
Nate FreemanApr 15, 2019 3:21 pm Installation view of Rachel Uffner Gallery’s booth at the Dallas Art Fair, 2019. Courtesy of the Dallas Art Fair.On Thursday afternoon during the Dallas Art Fair, a man in a 10-gallon hat walked into a hotel bar in downtown Dallas, ordered a glass of $300-a-bottle scotch with “one rock”…
Read MoreThe Online Art Market Grew 9.8% in 2018—and Other Key Takeaways from the 2019 Hiscox Report
Art Market Benjamin SuttonApr 5, 2019 1:05 pm Courtesy of Hiscox.Online art sales volume continued to grow in 2018, albeit at a slower rate than in previous years, totaling $4.64 billion, according to the latest addition of the annual Online Art Trade Report, which was released on Tuesday by Bermuda-based insurance company Hiscox Ltd. The…
Read MoreHere Are the 4 Major Conundrums That Will Define the Art Market of the Future, According to the Talking Galleries Symposium
Tim Schneider, January 29, 2019 At this year’s Talking Galleries symposium in Barcelona, the debates boiled down to a few core issues. Last week, globe-hopping gallerists, auctioneers, and art advisors converged on Barcelona for the city’s seventh annual Talking Galleries symposium, billed as a “think tank for galleries.” But unlike many art-world conferences, people didn’t just…
Read MoreЧто такое современное искусство? 5 главных фильмов
Документальное кино о современном искусстве и его героях — в обзоре ИНТЕРЬЕР+ДИЗАЙН. Выход через сувенирную лавку. Exit Through the Gift Shop, BanksyСнятый в 2010 году фильм не перестает интриговать и радовать поклонников Бэнкси. Нет, инкогнито загадочного бога стрит-арта сохраняется, но биографичность хорошо ощущается, благодаря рассказу от первого лица. Фильм признан одним из лучших произведений Netflix.…
Read MoreКристин Кёниг о художниках и галерейном бизнесе
Советник президента Австрии по культуре, а также владелица венской Christine Koenig Galerie − Кристин Кёниг рассуждает о роли искусства в современном обществе и признается − каким именно художникам открыт путь в ее галерею: «Двадцать пять лет назад современное искусство уже было в тренде. Его вряд ли можно было назвать влиятельным, но оно несомненно было политически ориентированным. Нельзя в принципе сказать,…
Read MoreWhat You Should Know About Art Crime
Return to Video ExitJanuary 2, 2019 In August 1911, Mona Lisa — Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece and perhaps the world’s most well known painting — disappeared from the Louvre. The perpetrator was Vincenzo Peruggia who, as the legend goes, hid the work under his coat and walked out of the museum with the intent of restoring it back…
Read MoreThese 10 Artists Broke into the Art Market Big Leagues in 2018
Nate Freeman Dec 21, 2018 1:51 pm Arsy.net While the art market in 2018 had its fair share of sales in the eight- and even nine-figures, some of the most intriguing results from this year lay much further down the list of the year’s most expensive works. The 10 artists listed below racked up some…
Read MoreAuctions, protests and controversial patrons: the three big ways art and money clashed in 2018
By Carolina A. Miranda In a cooly blunt scene from this fall’s art market documentary “The Price of Everything,” New York gallerist Gavin Brown offers his observations on the nature of art and money: “They are like Siamese twins — money and art,” he says. “You cannot separate them.” It’s a link that is hardly new. To create…
Read MoreTransforming photography into art —Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession
F By Chencheng Zhao Visitors walk through 19th-century photographic history marked by the change of canon to accept photography as art in the exhibit “Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century” at the Art Institute of Chicago. Today, photography graces the walls of art museums, galleries and the pages of fine art magazines. “This sort of assumption that…
Read MoreThe Rich Are Spending More Money on Art Than Wine for the First Time in Nearly a Decade, Survey Says
Artnetnews Henri Neuendorf March 27, 2018 Last year, wealthy people spent more on art than wine for the first time in eight years, according to The Wealth Report, which tracks the spending habits of ultra-high-net-worth individuals (people with investable assets of at least $30 million). Andrew Shirley, the editor of the report—which is published by real…
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