BASEL (REUTERS).- Wealthy collectors at Art Basel, the world’s top fair for modern and contemporary art, had to dig deep into their pockets this week to get hold of high-quality works, amid signs the market was returning to pre-crisis peaks. In times o…
World’s Top Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art Suggests Boom Times Are Back
BASEL (REUTERS).- Wealthy collectors at Art Basel, the world’s top fair for modern and contemporary art, had to dig deep into their pockets this week to get hold of high-quality works, amid signs the market was returning to pre-crisis peaks. In times o…
Women Make Sculpture: Sarah Lucas, Polly Morgan & More at Pangolin London
LONDON.- Why are women still marginalised by the art world? Does gender bring something different to the work itself or is it just politics? These are some of the key questions that form the foundations of the exhibition Women Make Sculpture at Pangol…
Sotheby’s Announces Auction in Aid of the Serpentine Gallery’s New Space in Kensington Gardens
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2pm it will offer for sale 46 works generously donated by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists, many of whom have been included in historic one-artist or group exhibi…
Sotheby’s Announces Auction in Aid of the Serpentine Gallery’s New Space in Kensington Gardens
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2pm it will offer for sale 46 works generously donated by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists, many of whom have been included in historic one-artist or group exhibi…
Madison Square Park Conservancy to Receive Prestigious U.S. Art Critics Association Award
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art, will receive the International Art Critics Association (AICA-USA) Second Place award for Best Project in a Public Space for the organization’s exhibition Antony Gormley: Event Hor…
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Debut Ai Weiwei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at Auction
LONDON.- In the wake of Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2010) for sales of Contemporary Art, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take place on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011. The sale will fea…
Sotheby’s Forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Debut Ai Weiwei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at Auction
LONDON.- In the wake of Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2010) for sales of Contemporary Art, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take place on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011. The sale will fea…
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Honorary Patrons Scheme Launched by Bryan Ferry
GATESHEAD.- Eight of the biggest names in art and music have pledged their support for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Antony Gormley, David Shrigley, Louise and Jane Wilson, Yoko Ono, Melvyn Bragg, Sting, Neil Tennant and Bryan Ferry have been unv…
New Work by Turner Prize Nominated Artist, Cornelia Parker, Loses Wing in Cuts Campaign
LONDON.- A new work by Turner Prize nominated artist, Cornelia Parker, created specially for the campaign led by artists against funding cuts, was released today. The work shows Antony Gormley’s celebrated Angel of the North with one of its wings …