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The London Art Scene – An Overview
Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy of the Arts, 1997. W hen one thinks about contemporary art in London, there are some key players who have shaped the scene and are still doing so. For the...
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Latest London Contemporary Art Auction Roundup
Marc Quinn, Microcosmos (Siren) 2008 L ondon was the centre of attention during the middle of October with the major auction houses all holding auctions of contemporary art in the English capital in...
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East Meets West: Venice Biennale 2011
Future Pass, Concomitant exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, 2011 Janice Devali, "Illuminations as in Nirwana", 2010-2011, Oil on Canvas, 190 x 540 cm, Chen Zhiguang, "Migrating Era", 2008, Installation,...
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Goran Tomcic on Contemporary Art Collecting in Berlin
Katarzyna Kozyra, "Olympia". Photo: Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin I am writing this text from the standpoint of an artist and writer living in Berlin and as a recent newcomer who relocated here three...
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Collectors Focus: A Decade of Transformation
Ivan Navarro. Silla Electrica Azul y Roja, 2003 Collection Martin Z. Margulies " I felt very strongly: it's very important for a human being to have an identity," explained Marty Margulies in Miami....
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A vision of the future: Bushwick 2020
Bushwick Trailer Park units on Meserole. Photo credit: 4rilla N OV. 20, 2020, BROOKLYN NY: ArtPrize NYC received a bit of good news this month when city officials announced that the L line would run...
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What to make of VIP 2.0?
Hany Armanious, Relative Nobody, 2011, Roylyn Oxley 9 Gallery R esults are in for the second edition of the controversial VIP online art fair and once again opinions are mixed. What all dealers did...
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Bonhams Bust, Sotheby’s Soar, Phillips Power On, but Christie’s Conquer All
Portrait of Henrietta Moraes by Francis Bacon B onhams broke the ice of the February round of post-war and contemporary art auctions in London with their Contemporary One sale held on the 13th of...
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ARCOmadrid, February 14-19, 2012
ARCO Logo C ommercial art fairs have traditionally been regarded with skepticism by curators and artists who work outside this market. Admittedly, I have attended Art Fairs on an irregular basis, but...
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Seven Things We Learned From Armory Arts Week
Kehinde Wiley, The Tribute Money II, 2012, oil on canvas, painting: 96 x 72 inches © Kehinde Wiley, courtesy: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York I n New York, the blockbuster Armory Show opened Wednesday...
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London Up and Coming
Alinka Echeverria at Ebb & Flow Gallery, London I n my last article I covered the big guns, the super galleries, many of which were born out of the YBA movement and the excesses of the 90's. We...
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Private Museum Buyer Spends Big During Chinese Art Shopping Spree
Wang Guangyi, Post-Classical Series: After Mona Lisa, courtesy Sotheby's I f you haven't heard of the Chinese-Indonesian collector Budi Tek then you soon will. Recently identified as the 8th most...
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Highlights from NADA and PULSE 2012
Trey Speegle, The Here... and Now (nude), 2012, silkscreen on vintage paint by number panels in shadowbox, 26 x 26 inches, courtesy of the artist and Benrimon Contemporary, LLC, New York, PULSE Art...
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Art Basel Switzerland
Basquiat T he art world calendar just seems to get busier and busier. This year we have added Frieze New York to the list and five years have now passed since the last Documenta in Kassel. Basel,...
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Alternativa 2012 – An Authentic Alternative
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] Alternativa exhibition 2012 in the Gdansk Shipyards, Gdansk, Poland, photo credit: Kathy Rae Huffman[/caption] A mong the overgrown pathways that...
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NYC Art Scene Left Hanging Out to Dry
[caption id="attachment_13218" align="alignleft" width="200"] Image courtesy of Hyperallergic[/caption] A month after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, as the lights flicker on and transit systems...
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Art Basel: NADA Art Fair 2012 Miami Beach
[caption id="attachment_13941" align="alignleft" width="200"] Detail, Seventeen Gallery London[/caption]Between all the fairs, exhibitions, concerts, opening receptions, celebrities, performances,...
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A Look Back at The Independent 2013
[caption id="attachment_27797" align="alignleft" width="200"] Renaud Regnery, Closer, Courtesy The Independent and Elizabeth Dee[/caption] T he Independent is truly a unique art show. Now its third...
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Forbes: In liquor leader Pernod Ricard ’s latest annual report, Hervé Deschamps glares over wire-rimmed glasses at Elena Adell. Deschamps’ bushy mustache curls toward his ears and Adell’s lips are...
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Sotheby’s American Art Auction totals $28.1 million in New York
Art Daily: For a third consecutive season, Sotheby’s American Art auction has surpassed its pre-sale expectations – today’s auction totaled $28,087,750, above a high estimate of $24.4 million*, and...
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Private eye finds stolen Norman Rockwell painting
USA Today: The illustration, painted during Rockwell's last months in New Rochelle, N.Y., had been stolen from a Queens, N.Y., storage facility in September after being sold at auction months earlier...
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Robert Lango’s Gang of Cosmos
I n his 2014 New York Times review of the Whitney Biennial, art critic Holland Cotter declares a very clear disdain for Abstract Expressionism, calling it “overrated and pretentious, a bore.” He...
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