Art Collective MSCHF Who Cut Up £25k Damien Hirst Spot Print Auctions It For £212,000
The Brooklyn-based Art Collective MSCHF has purchased a £25k Damien Hirst spot print and cut out the dots.
28 April 2020
Art Category: Art Market
CoronART Chronicles: From ARCO To ConfineART – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Who would have thought early February when Art Basel Hong Kong was cancelled that the coronavirus crisis was going to spread like lighting to everywhere else on the planet
13 April 2020
Sotheby’s Announce Significant Redundancies Due To Coronavirus
Sotheby’s has announced significant redundancies, staff hiatuses, and pay cuts as a result of the Coronavirus.
2 April 2020
Art Goes Viral – Edward Lucie-Smith
The coronavirus has been responsible for a major crisis in the art world. Museums and galleries have slammed their doors shut. Increasingly the only way to look at art, in the present situation, is to look at it on a computer screen – or, at a pinch, on the screen of your mobile phone. This is creating a ‘viral’ phenomenon.
29 March 2020
And Last But Not Least Art Basel Gets Postponed
Well well, we all knew this was coming. TEFAF Maastricht is currently under fire for infecting the upper echelons of the art world with up to 50 cases of the Coronavirus. It has been linked to over 300 international exhibitors who unwittingly took the virus back to their home countries.
26 March 2020
Paul Kasmin Formative Contemporary Art Dealer Dies Age 60
The London-born dealer PAUL KASMIN (1960–2020) has died in New York after a protracted illness. The gallery released the following statement.
24 March 2020
Frieze New York 2020 Cancelled
Frieze has announced the cancellation of the ninth edition of the Frieze New York art fair. It falls in line with health and safety guidelines regarding the spread of the coronavirus (COVID19) with restrictions on gatherings of more than 50 people.
18 March 2020
London Art Gallery Closures Latest COVID19 Updates
The National Gallery has unprecedentedly cancelled their highly anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, scheduled to open on 4th April. The ICA, Wellcome Collection, South London Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Beaconsfield, and Modern Art Oxford has also suspended opening to the public.
16 March 2020
Gagosian Gallery Closes Due To COVID-19
Gagosian, the largest chain of commercial galleries in the world, has shuttered until further notice. The following message was released this morning.
14 March 2020
Late Francis Bacon Triptych Set To Soar At Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s late large-format Triptych Inspired by the Greek tragedy Oresteia of Aeschylus, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s. This will be the highlight their Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on 13 May 2020, when it will be offered with an estimate in excess of $60 million.
7 March 2020
Blain|Southern To Close Worldwide Operation
After a tumultuous six months, Blain|Southern has decided to call it a day.
12 February 2020
Coronavirus Cancels Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel has just announced the cancellation of the upcoming fair in Hong Kong due to the outbreak and spread of the new coronavirus. The fair was already struggling with the uncertain political climate and student riots in the region.
6 February 2020
London Art Fair’s Positive Spin On A Diverse Range Of Work – Sue Hubbard
Being asked to write about an art fair is a bit like being commissioned to write about Waitrose and compare tins of baked beans with sardines or chocolate biscuits.
22 January 2020
London Galleries Warn Clients About New Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Cristea Roberts, one of London’s leading art galleries, has sent a memo to all of their clients warning of strict new Anti-Money Laundering legislation, effective from 10 January 2020
6 January 2020
Lost LS Lowry Painting Sells At Christie’s For £2.65m
A long lost painting by LS Lowry which hasn’t been seen for 70 years has been rediscovered and heads for the auction block at Christie’s in the new year. The work titled The Mill, Pendlebury, painted in 1943 shows workers on a bank holiday with children playing cricket.
26 December 2019
Go Bananas! Miami Art Basel What The Dealers Said
Art Basel in Miami Beach closed yesterday with reports of significant sales in all disciplines and mediums. In recent years it has become the cultural meeting point for the Americas, in December attracting collectors and institutions from the U.S., Latin America, and around the globe.
9 December 2019
London Art Fair: First UP For The 2020 Art Season
London Art Fair is the UK’s oldest established Contemporary art fair. It returns from 22-26 January 2020, bringing museum-quality modern and contemporary art to the capital.
2 December 2019
Your Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 Everything Guide – Artlyst
The 18th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach takes place in the newly renovated Miami Beach Convention Centre from 5-8 December 2019.
29 November 2019
Sotheby’s Appoints Charles F. Stewart New CEO
Sotheby’s has announced the appointment of Charles F. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Stewart succeeds Tad Smith, who served as CEO of Sotheby’s since 2015.
28 October 2019
Export Ban For Joseph Wright Of Derby Two Boys With A Bladder
An export bar on Joseph Wright of Derby’s ‘Two Boys with a Bladder’ has been placed on the recommendation of Arts Minister Helen Whately. The work, completed between 1768 and 1770, is valued at £3,500,000 is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can be found.
21 October 2019
FIAC Paris 46th Edition A Grand Palais Happening – What’s On
As everyone must know by now, FIAC one of Europe’s most important fairs opened for the VIP preview today at the Grand Palais in Paris.
16 October 2019
Frieze London Report 2019 – What The Galleries Said
The 17th edition of Frieze London closed on Sunday 6 October, has brought together more than 160 galleries from 35 countries, representing the fair’s most international edition to date and driving excellent sales across the fair.
9 October 2019
Banksy: Devolved Parliament Chimp Painting Sells For £9.9m
The largest painting on canvas by the elusive street artist Banksy depicting the House of Commons populated with chimpanzees has sold
3 October 2019
An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Susan Hiller – Sue Hubbard
On my way to Tate Modern in the rain, last night, I smiled, thinking just how much Susan Hiller would… Read More
1 October 2019
Banksy’s 17-Ton Laugh Now Truck To Be Sold At Bonhams
Banksy’s 17-ton truck, covered in graffiti by his own hand, will be going under the hammer at Bonhams on Saturday 14 September, at its motor car auction, the Goodwood Revival sale.
31 August 2019
High-Value Paintings Queue For Export As Sterling Drops In Brexit Uncertainties
An outstanding painting by Claude Monet ‘Le Palais Ducal’ 1908 is at risk of going abroad unless a UK buyer can be found . The picture valued at more than £28 million is one of a number of the artist’s works depicting Venice.
10 August 2019
Brancusi Sculpture Damaged: Should This Devalue The £18m Work
When someone attacked Michelangelo’s Pieta with a hammer in the 1970s, the sculpture was severely damaged. It was restored and put back on display at the Vatican. A few years later a paranoid schizophrenic slashed Rembrandt’s masterpiece ‘The Night Watch’ putting a gaping hole in the canvas with a bread knife, at the Rijksmuseum.
8 August 2019
Constantin Brancusi: Elderly New York Art Collector Sues Lawyer Over Deceit
An elderly New York art collector has taken his Philadelphia attorney to court for cheating him out of millions.
21 July 2019
Recommended London Art Exhibitions July 2019 – Paul Carey-Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended Contemporary and Modern art exhibitions for July 2019 in London now.
30 June 2019
Christie’s Contemporary Evening Auction Sees Cecily Brown, Dubuffet and Basquiat Soar
The London Summer Art week which includes Contemporary auctions at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Masterpiece London the art fair recently acquired by Art Basel as well a Olympia and newcomer FairForSaatchi is well on the way.
27 June 2019
Bacon, Freud and Saville Top Sotheby’s Evening Contemporary Sale
Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art has realised £69,143,300/ $87,811,991/ €77,440,496 (est. £58-82.8 million/ $73.5-105 million / €64.7-92.4 million).
27 June 2019
Controversial Caravaggio Goes Under The Hammer In Toulouse
A long lost painting attributed by a French provincial auction house to Caravaggio, which languished in a chateau attic in… Read More
20 June 2019