Global Art-marketing: Where The Crowned Kings Of Auctioneering Find Their Sovereignty
In my best Sam the Eagle voice: “Sales is vanity, profit is sanity”. Splashed all over the art newspapers this week were Christie’s
13 February 2015
In my best Sam the Eagle voice: “Sales is vanity, profit is sanity”. Splashed all over the art newspapers this week were Christie’s
13 February 2015
Why put on an exhibition? What’s the point? The term curator comes from the Latin ‘curare’, “to look after”, simply meaning to care
5 February 2015
The National Gallery found itself the centre of a large PR pickle this week as the dirty word ‘privatisation’ was… Read More
29 January 2015
This spring twelve Jack Vettriano paintings are expected to fetch up to £1.2m when auctioned at Bonham’s.
23 January 2015
Following last week’s musings on intellectual property, the Dulwich Picture Gallery has recently announced that as part of its exhibition programme
16 January 2015
Jeff Koons is facing a second lawsuit over alleged plagiarism of intellectual property in two weeks; first regarding the sculpture
9 January 2015
The highs and lows of art in 2014: early on the Whitechapel Gallery scored a big hit with deco-haired Hannah Höch’s impressively hard-hitting collages
27 December 2014
It’s that time of year again, when a saccharine schmaltz descends in snowy suffocating blanket over us; Christmas is the most profitable time of year for many retailers
18 December 2014
If you thought the Frieze Art Fair was the pinnacle of superficiality in the contemporary art world, Art Basel which… Read More
12 December 2014
News emerged this week that Shia LaBeouf was ‘raped’ by a spectator at his collaborative show with the artists Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkkö
5 December 2014
The arrival of the rule of law signified the backbone upon which democracy continues to structure itself.
28 November 2014
Welcome to the Establishment, Mr Jones, you may now safely wheel out your once risqué, now wince-inducing archaic women as furniture.
20 November 2014
My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an alcoholic: given the growing trend for sprinkling the magical commercial fairy dust that is “Art”
7 November 2014