NEW YORK, NY.- In France, Maxim’s is a restaurant as strong and essential to la vie Parisienne today as it was when it opened more than a century ago. The legend begins in 1893, when Maxime Gaillard, a waiter, opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale…
Turner Contemporary Designed by David Chipperfield Aims to Transform Town of Margate
MARGATE, ENGLAND (AP).- In a town that has seen better days, this is a red-letter day. For years in the English seaside town of Margate, things have shut down — shops, hotels, the Dreamland amusement park that used to draw crowds of visitors to t…
BFI Gallery Presents the First London Showing of ‘Marxism Today’ by Artist Phil Collins
LONDON.- This February, the BFI Gallery presents the first London showing of marxism today by British artist Phil Collins. Shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, …
BFI Gallery Presents the First London Showing of ‘Marxism Today’ by Artist Phil Collins
LONDON.- This February, the BFI Gallery presents the first London showing of marxism today by British artist Phil Collins. Shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, …
Western Art Dealers and Auction Houses Hope to Lure Wealthy Chinese Buyers
HONG KONG (AP).- For newly minted Chinese billionaires looking to spend their money, a natural choice has been art and antiques from their own country, many costing millions of dollars. Now art dealers and auction houses are trying to pitch them a hard…
Western Art Dealers and Auction Houses Hope to Lure Wealthy Chinese Buyers
HONG KONG (AP).- For newly minted Chinese billionaires looking to spend their money, a natural choice has been art and antiques from their own country, many costing millions of dollars. Now art dealers and auction houses are trying to pitch them a hard…
$35 Million Andy Warhol Coke Bottle Lifts Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A black-and-white Coke bottle on canvas by Andy Warhol sold for $35.36 million on Tuesday at Sotheby’s robust contemporary and post-war art auction. The sale of 54 works, an impressive 91 percent of which found buyers, totaled $22…
$35 Million Andy Warhol Coke Bottle Lifts Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A black-and-white Coke bottle on canvas by Andy Warhol sold for $35.36 million on Tuesday at Sotheby’s robust contemporary and post-war art auction. The sale of 54 works, an impressive 91 percent of which found buyers, totaled $22…
New Collectors from Russia, India, China and Hong Kong Invigorating Art Auctions
NEW YORK, NY.- Less than two years after a precipitous fall, the art market is flexing its muscles again, emboldened by recent auction records and an influx of determined international collectors rich with cash. With two works breaking the $100 millio…
Tamra Davis’s Revealing Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat to Premiere at Film Forum
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD, opening Wednesday, July 21. Filmmaker Tamra Davis charts the meteoric rise and fall of her late friend, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, bo…