The Herb Williams Phenomenon – artmarketblog.com With the huge amount of attention that crayon artist Herb Williams (http://www.herbwilliamsart.com), the inaugural Next Star Artist (http://www.nextstarartist.com) competition winner, has has been receiving of late I think that the use of the term phenomenon is extremely apt. Over in the UK, Herb’s work has appeared in Brittain’s biggest [...]
Chinese Art Loses Lustre – artmarketblog.com Copyright@Artprice.com In 2007, China redistributed the cards in becoming the third auction market globally. Beijing and Hong Kong have rapidly established themselves as new growth relays and the scene of some particularly aggressive investment over the past two years. The most impressive sale results have been achieved at Poly [...]
Invest in Art this Christmas – artmarketblog.com With Christmas holidays just around the corner for most and a buyer market waiting to be taken advantage of, why not take the opportunity to either add some awesome works of art to your existing collection of start an art collection. To give you a bit of a [...]
ArtCast: Art Collecting 101 – Art Market Trends – artmarkeblog.com I was recently interviewed by Sharon Burton who is the founder and creative director of Authentic Contemporary Art (http://www.authenticartonline.com) for the Authentic Contemporary Art Blog Artcast (podcast) which was titled “Art Collecting 101 – Art Market Trends“. Based in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area, Authentic [...]
Rarity is Driving the Art Market – artmarketblog.com One of the trends that has emerged since the art market began to soften is the increased desirability of works of art that that have not appeared at auction for a long period of time or have never appeared at auction. Such works are usually given the [...]
Australian Art Sacrificed for Cezanne – artmarketblog.com The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia is selling two major works by two Australian artists from it’s collection to raise the remaining funds needed to purchase a painting by Cezanne titled “Bords De La Marne”. Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [...]
Aquarium Gallery Closing Sale – artmarketblog.com The London based Aquarium L-13 Gallery (http://www.theaquariumonline.co.uk/index.html) is a contemporary commercial art gallery run by Steve Lowe. The gallery specialises in work of more unorthodox punk-based artists including Jamie Reid, Jimmy Cauty, Billy Childish, Sexton Ming and stop21stcplanb. On the 23rd of December the Aquarium L-13 will be closing [...]
Mei Moses Art Market Index Update – artmarketblog.com A tracking report on the year-to-date value of the Mei Moses All Art Index has been issued by Beautiful Asset Advisors. According to the fall art market insight report, as of 10/31/2008, the value of the index was 270.58** which, as one would expect, is down on [...]
The Rise of Rothko – artmarketblog.com Copyright@Artprice.com London’s Tate Modern is currently holding an exhibition of Mark Rothko’s later works through to 1st February 2009. The collection plunges the viewer into his deep “colorfields” – chromatic spaces for meditation. Marcus Rothkowitz was born in Latvia in 1903 and his family moved to the United States [...]
Top Christmas Gifts for Art Lovers 2008 Lawrence Weiner “Wild Blue Yonder” DVD from Printed Matter http://tinyurl.com/printedmatter Lawrence Weiner “Wild Blue Yonder” [Deluxe Edition] New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc. and Moved Pictures. 2002 Synopsis: This is the deluxe edition of Printed Matter’s book and DVD movie by Lawrence Weiner. Packaged in a Japanese silk [...]
