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A Calder Necklace Takes Flight 14 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
Christie’s First Open sale this September is filled with a few surprises. There’s an Oscar Murillo painting that is looking to capitalize on the recent run of record sales for the Columbian artist. A ...
Monet Sold in UK Attracts Bids from China and India but Winds Up in Canadian Museum 14 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
What happens after the bidding war ends? Well, in the case of this Monet, the work ends up on loan to the buyer’s favorite museum. Now the game becomes guessing the buyer’s nationality because when it...
Peeling Back the Layers in Every Banksy Story 14 Aug 2013 | 04:49 pm
Melanie Ryzik’s New York Times piece revealing the sale of a Los Angeles gas station’s Banksy mural appeared in the paper this morning but was quickly followed by a blog post revealing the name of the...
Contemplation Meets Experience at American Museums 14 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
Dennis Kois, who is the director of the deCordova Sculpture Park outside of Boston, takes exception to the New York Times’s recent Sunday essay on the overwhelming appearance of “participatory, social...
Romanian Art Thief Wants to Make Deal, Paintings Were Not Burned 13 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
Bloomberg reports that the ongoing saga of Radu Dogaru, the Romanian art thief whose mother claimed she burned the paintings he stole. According to Edith Balazs, Dogaru wants to trade the paintings fo...
Understanding Amazon Art’s Ambitions 13 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Amazon Art debuted last week. The service which brings Amazon back to its original business plan of connecting buyers and sellers but taking no part in the fulfillment of the purchase, has provoked de...
Why Detroit’s Art Is Like the Barnes Foundation 12 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
The swirl of overheated opinion surrounding the valuation of Detroit’s art as an asset continues further obscuring the real dynamics of what’s going on Michigan’s most beleaguered town. The problem li...
US & Swiss Buyers Drive £500m June Surge in UK Art Exports Closing Trade Gap 12 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
Britain’s tax authorities have released some figures that show the UK is making the most of its cultural patrimony by generating exports. June’s powerful sales were a big part of the nation’s overall ...
Regulating the Art Market: A Cautionary Tale from Australia 8 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
At its peak, the market for Aboriginal art was A$26m in yearly turnover. After the Australian Federal government decided in 2007 to step in and regulate the proceedings to protect the artists as well ...
David Zwirner’s Un-Corporate, Resilient Art Industry 8 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Bloomberg BusinessWeek has an interview issue coming out and one of the subjects is David Zwirner who used to view the idea that his kids would go into the art business—as he did following his own fat...
