TEFAF Art Market Report Highlights 7% Global Downturn In 2016
TEFAF, The European Fine Art Foundation which is connected to the world’s most exclusive art fair, has released their annual report…. Read More
9 March 2017
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Hotel Chelsea Owner’s Inspired Art Collection To Go Under The Hammer
One hundred works of art, acquired personally by Stanley Bard manager and part owner of New York’s notorious Hotel Chelsea are to go under the hammer at Freeman’s Auctions in Philadelphia, on May 16. Bard died last month age 82.
9 March 2017
Sotheby’s Spring 2017 Contemporary Art Sale Reinforces Art Market Strength
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London out-shined predicted estimates to total £118,015,150 – an increase of 70% (GBP) / 43% (USD) on the equivalent sale last year.
9 March 2017
Christie’s To Close South-Ken Salesroom Despite Art Evening Auction Achieving $117,781,248
Christie’s record-shattering Contemporary sale in London last night has not halted downsizing of their operations in London and Amsterdam.
8 March 2017
Milton Avery Estate To Be Represented By Victoria Miro In Europe
Today, 7 March is Milton Avery’s 132 birthday. Avery was one of the most important homegrown modernist painters in America before modernism was widely accepted.
7 March 2017
Controversial Francis Bacon Crucifixion Drawings Go On Display In London Church
Last year a Gallery in Mayfair exhibited a selection of drawings and collages from the Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino collection of works by Francis Bacon. It created quite a stir in the press, as the collection remains unauthenticated by the Bacon estate and rejected as fakes by the author of the new catalogue raisonné.
6 March 2017
Armory Show 2017 Indicative Of Art Market’s Changing Economic Landscape
It’s a week of art fairs in New York. The Armory Show, held in a crowded, bustling convention center on the Hudson River is the biggest of the fairs and indicative of the art markets changing economic landscape.
5 March 2017
Armory Show Highlights By Gallerist Zavier Ellis Of Charlie Smith London
The Armory Show, which opened to the public in New York on 2 March is always one of the highlights of the art fair season. This year, the first fully under new Executive Director Benjamin Genocchio is a step to separate the fair competitors like Frieze and Art Basel. “This is not a franchise fair,” Genocchio explained to the assembled press before the doors opened on Wednesday. “This is a New York institution.”
4 March 2017
Banksy Walled Off Hotel His biggest Project Since Dismaland
Banksy, the elusive British street artist has opened a hotel next to Israel’s brutalist style wall in Bethlehem.
4 March 2017
Christopher Le Brun PRA Touch And Improvisation The Artlyst Interview
Christopher Le Brun, PRA, painter, and president of the Royal Academy is a very busy man. With two shows currently on in the United States, Christopher Le Brun: Composer, at the Albertz Benda gallery in New York (2 March-15 April 2017) and in Vero Beach, Florida (25 February-27 April 2017) at the Gallery at Windsor, he continues to expand his international reach as a force to be reckoned with.
3 March 2017
Gustav Metzger Creator Of Auto-Destructive Art Dies In London Aged 90
Gustav Metzger, (1926–2017) creator of “auto-destructive art,” has died in London aged ninety. Metzger made a number of works
2 March 2017
Manifesta 12 Appoints Team of Four international, interdisciplinary Creative Mediators
The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been followed up by the appointment of an international, interdisciplinary team of four creative mediators.
2 March 2017
Sotheby’s Breaks Ceiling Achieving Highest Total For Any London Auction
Sotheby’s has achieved the highest total for any auction ever staged in London.
2 March 2017
Facebook Bans Painting By Leading Australian Artist Charles Blackman For Indecency
Facebook is at it again! The taste and moral police have blocked an Australian auction house from advertising a well-known figurative painter’s work because it deems it indecent. Charles Blackman’s oil work entitled Women Lovers features two nude women resting on a bed beside a cat. The painting has been pulled down by the social media giant in a gesture which undermines culture in a return to Victorian attitudes of morality and repression.
1 March 2017
Global Art Sales Fall 22% As Market Reacts To Trump And Brexit
Global art sales are down by 22% from 2015, as the Art market reacts to a turbulent year with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit. The number of mega-expensive works sold and this represents pieces over the value of $10m for a single work of art has also tumbled by up to 50%. China has regained its status as the world’s top market,over the US another revelation that the west isn’t performing as well as it was a year ago.
28 February 2017
Ashley Bickerton Solo Show Announced For Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery
The Newport Street Gallery has announced their next solo exhibition which follows Gavin Turk’s successful exhibition at Damien Hirst’s private Art Gallery. Ashley Bickerton an American artist (b.1959), will display work spanning more than three decades of his career and features almost 50 works, including both new and previously unexhibited pieces.
28 February 2017
Roald Dahl’s Francis Bacon Studies To Be Auctioned Estimate $50-$70m
Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1963 will be a featured highlight at Christie’s in its May 17 Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale in New York.
27 February 2017
Jasper Johns Stolen Drawings Case Fred Dorfman Gallery Sued
A Canadian gallery has brought a federal complaint against a New York art dealer alleging he tried to give works by the American ‘Pop’ artist Jasper Johns official provenances.
26 February 2017
Doug Aitken Unveils Ranch Style House Mirage In Palm Springs
Doug Aitken, the American artist has created his most ambitious work to date. Entitled MIRAGE, it is a site-specific installation set in the Southern California desert.
26 February 2017
Queer City Recreates London Club Culture 1918-1967 In New London Installation
Photographs, court reports, police papers and witness statements on The Caravan and other clubs of the era will be used to re-create the striking bohemian interior of the underground club.
25 February 2017
Pink Martini Van With Original Kenny Scharf Murals Destroyed By Thieves
The Latin/World Music band Pink Martini have recovered their stolen van which was handprinted by the artist Kenny Scharf.
24 February 2017
Anish Kapoor Unveils Pro Immigration Poster In LA’s Union Station
Anish Kapoor, The Turner Prize-winning artist has has unveiled his subtle protest reworking of Joseph Beuys’ seminal work
23 February 2017
Diebedo Francis Kere Chosen To Design The 2017 Serpentine Pavilion
An Architect from Gando, Burkino Faso, Diébédo Francis Kéré, has won the commission to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017
22 February 2017
Paris Art Thieves Receive 21 Years Collectively For Hundred Million Heist
The trial of the 2010 ‘Spider-Man’ burglary at the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris has concluded securing an eight year sentence for 49-year-old Serbian mastermind Vjeran Tomic.
21 February 2017
Ai Weiwei Sculptures Exhibited At YSP 40th Anniversary Celebrations
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park celebrates its 40th anniversary by presenting sculptures by internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
20 February 2017
John Constable Added Rainbow In Salisbury Cathedral Masterpiece At Later Date
John Constable’s six-footer masterpiece Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 added the iconic rainbow after it was first exhibited, to mark the death of his friend Archdeacon John Fisher in 1832.
19 February 2017
The Rise Of Fake And Forged Works Of Egyptian Modern Art
The discovery of fake and forged works has been something that has plagued the art market for centuries. There have been a number of famous cases, including the fake Frans Hals that Sotheby’s recently sold for ten million dollars, only to have to revoke the sale after the work was revealed as a forgery.
19 February 2017
Gerhard Richter Unveils New Work At Museum Ludwig in Cologne
Gerhard Richter’s who celebrates his eighty-fifth birthday on February 9, is presenting twenty-six recent abstract paintings, shown for the first time at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
19 February 2017
Marina Abramovic Retrospective Unveiled At Moderna Museet Stockholm
A comprehensive first European retrospective of the work of Marina Abramović has opened in Stockholm.
18 February 2017
Desperate Artwives Stage Leyden Gallery Takeover To Coincide With Breastfeeding Exhibition
To coincide with Leanne Pearce’s Breastfeeding exhibition, Desperate Artwives will stage a ‘takeover’ of Leyden Gallery, and present a curated programme of performances and interventions.
18 February 2017
Jannis Kounellis Arte Povera Associated Artist Dies At 80
The artist Jannis Kounellis, who was best known for his association with the Arte Povera movement has died in Rome, aged 80.
17 February 2017
Turner Prize Artists Gallerists and Curators Unite Against Right-Wing Extremism
Two hundred plus well-known artists, gallerists, and curators lead by Turner Prize winners Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Mark Wallinger and Yinka Shonibare have signed their support to the “Hands Off Our Revolution” movement. Founded by artist Adam Broomberg, the group was launched in reaction to the Brexit vote, the refugee crisis, and the election of Donald Trump as President of the US.
17 February 2017