Credit Suisse Charity Art Auction – artmarketblog.com Credit Suisse in conjunction with Phillips De Pury are holding a charity auction to benefit Room to Read who raise funds educate children in the developing world who otherwise wouldn’t have access to education. The works available for auction have been touring as an exhibition where people have [...]
Art Sydney 08 Art Fair Report – artmarketblog.com A few weeks ago I attended the Art Sydney 08 Art Fair (http://www.artsydney08.com.au) which is Sydney’s largest annual art fair and is produced by Single Market Events who produced the event in association with International Concert Attractions (ICA) and the Affordable Art Fairs which take place annually [...]
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction – artmarketblog.com Sale Information: Sale 2048 post-war and contemporary art evening sale 12 November 2008 New York, Rockefeller Plaza Lot Description: Lot 10 Richard Prince (b. 1949) Lake Resort Nurse signed, titled and dated ‘Richard Prince 2003 LAKE RESORT NURSE’ (on the stretcher) ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas [...]
Winners of Abraaj Capital Art Prize Announced – artmarketblog.com Dubai, London – The selection committee of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize today announced the three recipient curator/artist teams of its first competition: Cristiana Perrella & Kutluğ Ataman; Carol Solomon & Zoulikha Boubadellah; and Leyla Fakhr & Nazgol Ansarinia. Their projects, which are being created this [...]
Art Auction Estimates Mean Little – artmarketblog.com While looking through the real-estate section of a newspaper the other day I realised how much more useful those listings were that included information (date and price) regarding the last time the property was traded as well as the estimated price. There is no doubt that it is [...]
Herb Williams’ Obama Portrait Video – artmarketblog.com “Obama Portrait In Thousands of Crayons” This is a short story on Nashville artist Herb Williams, who spent over four months making a large 3-d portrait of Barack Obama out of thousands of crayons. You can view more of the crayon sculptures at www.herbwilliamsart.com. See video here: http://www.wsmv.com/video/17916594/index.html [...]
Free Shepard Fairey Obama Victory Stickers – artmarketblog.com Free sticker celebrating Obama victory by Shepard Fairey available here: http://pol.moveon.org/shepstickers/?id=-3768774-adT5Utx From moveon.org website: These commemorative stickers mark Barack Obama’s historic victory and were designed by groundbreaking artist Shepard Fairey—the same artist who designed the world-famous, iconic “Hope” poster for Obama. You can get one sticker for [...]
Future50 UK Contemporary Artists at Axis – artmarketblog.com A fantastic opportunity to purchase work by some of Britain’s hottest emerging artists called Future50 has recently been launched by Axis, the online contemporary art portal. According to the website, Axis (http://www.axisweb.org) is the best online resource for information about contemporary art. The website features profiles of [...]
Trophy Sellers Endanger Art Auction Results – artmarketblog.com One of the most dangerous scenarios for the art market is the existence of large numbers of extremely wealthy people who have no idea about the value of art yet have excessive amounts of money to spend on expensive trophies and status symbols. Sound familiar?. While the [...]
Manipulated Art Auction Results Affect Perception of Art Market- artmarketblog.com Why is it that we continue to use auction results as an indicator of the health of the art market when they are obviously not an accurate representation of the health of the art market and do not reflect the sentiment and actions of buyers [...]
