Christie's Latest Blockbuster Edges Closer to the $1B Mark
Posted: Sunday November 30, 2014
Christie’s yet again set a record for all auctions everywhere on Wednesday evening at its Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York, taking in a mind-boggling $852,887,000 for 75 works of art.The tally surpassed the night's historic high pre-sale expectations of $630.6-836 million. (Estimates reflect hammer price and not the added
Spanish Politicians Face Corruption Probe After Multimillion-Euro Sale of Goya Paintings
Posted: Saturday November 29, 2014
Six former high ranking Spanish government officials are being investigated over alleged corruption surrounding the sale of government-owned artworks, including two paintings by the Spanish master Francisco Goya with a total worth of around €14 million, Spanish daily newspaper ABC reported on Friday.Former education secretary Eva Almunia, and her husband
Takashi Murakami Enters His Skull Period at Gagosian
Posted: Thursday November 13, 2014
By Ben Davis for Artnet News OnlineWhat's going on with Takashi Murakami? The superstar Japanese artist, best known for his “superflat" spin on anime aesthetics in paintings featuring toothsome mutant characters of his own invention—not to mention for his brand reinvention of Louis Vuitton and BFF status with Kanye West—is
Parrish Midsummer Party Raises $1.25 Million
Posted: Sunday July 20, 2014
The Parrish Art Museum held another sold-out summer benefit, drawing the cultural community to its doors on July 12, 2014. The Midsummer Party raised $1.25 million for the museum and hosted around 1,000 guests for the dinner and After Ten party, according to the museum. Mingling were a mix of
Christie's post-war art sales break records in first half
Posted: Sunday July 20, 2014
Auction house Christie's reported record-breaking sales of post-war and contemporary art for January-June, helping push total sales to 2.69 billion pounds including a Picasso painting and 51 other works fetching $10 million (5.83 million pounds) or more.Sales rose 12 percent during the first half, compared with the first half of
The Stitched, Collaged and Chillingly Violent Female Warriors of Artist Elektra KB
Posted: Saturday May 17, 2014
Born in Odessa, raised in Colombia, and living in Brooklyn, Elektra KB is updating the concept of guerrilla girls for a new generation.In Elektra KB’s Theocratic Republic of Gaia, a brainwashed army of genderless humanoids struggles to quash a guerrilla uprising led by a troupe of seditious dancing warriors. Bare
"If I Live I'll See You Tuesday" at Christie's
Posted: Tuesday May 13, 2014
The contemporary art auction season opened during happy hour on Monday with a loud bang at Christie’s, as the bespoke and trendy, “If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday” sale made $134,630,000. Of the 35 lots offered, all but one sold for a skinny buy-in rate by lot of five
On the Floor at Frieze New York 2014
Posted: Tuesday May 13, 2014
Some dating wisdom has it that the third date is make or break, the one when you decide whether or not to move forward. This is the third year of the Frieze New York art fair, and I’m just not sure I see us having a future together.The quintessential Frieze New York
From Hollywood to the Art World, the New Celebrity Collectors
Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2014
We don’t have to tell you that art collecting is an expensive hobby. Who has the cash to drop $1 million or more on a single work because of a whim (or perhaps because another collector threatens to snap it up if you don’t)? Well, celebrities, that’s who. So we’ve
20 Most-Anticipated Art Exhibits in 2014
Posted: Sunday January 12, 2014
It seems art has gone Hollywood these days, with record-breaking prices and long gallery lines. But a series of shows in 2014 is set to shake us out of our consumerist complacency. We witness the insane prices that billionaires pay for art, and imagine it decorating their yachts. We stand in line to see exhibitions of the usual suspectsÃf¢e"Impressionists, girls with pearl earrings, high-end fashion designersÃf¢e"and feel as though weÃf¢e(TM)re in line for a Hollywood blockbuster. These days, itÃf¢e(TM)s easy to imagine that art has joined the world of the superficial and consumable. All the old claims that art is good for the soul, and for society, can seem either overblown or out of date. So itÃf¢e(TM)s a pleasant surprise to find that, in the huge roster of shows coming to art museums in 2014, a good number number seem likely to wake us up to the state of our world today and to the problems weÃf¢e(TM)re facing. Here are 20 exhibitions that look set to shake us out of our consumerist complacency. To read the full article by Blake Gopnik on the DailyBeast.com click here.