Art Market
How big is the art market? It’s a question that seems relatively simple, yet is elusive. The difficulty of pinning down an estimate (mostly as a result of the fact that it’s in dealers’ best interests to keep their sales private) means that...
Can a young professional who lives off salaried income rather than a trust fund still collect contemporary art? Yes, and Joseph Kouli is living proof. The Paris-based ad agency associate director, currently in his early thirties, has been acquiring works for...
The brainchild of Juan Garcia, a Melbourne based entrepreneur and passionate art collector, artFido is an extremely well presented and highly advanced online sales and auction platform for everyday collectors to browse, search for, and buy and sell art....
Australian art dealers Vasili Kaliman and Jarrod Rawlins of KALIMANRAWLINS gallery have co-founded a new art fair, The New Fair, which will provide collectors with a new way of engaging with the contemporary art market.Launching on the 12th of August in...
French artist Christian Boltanski has always been preoccupied with memory. In his massive 2010 installation "No Man's Land," shown in Paris's Grand Palais and the Park Avenue Armory, he gathered enormous piles of clothing — 30 tons in all — that recalled the...
MELBOURNE — Art Series Hotel Group, owners of three art-themed boutique hotels each inspired and dedicated to a different Australian contemporary artist, has managed to drum up a storm of publicity by offering an irresistable challenge to wannabe art...
Artprice, the French-based art auction price database giant, recently released a list of the top ten auction results for Contemporary Australian art as part of their fortnightly Friday Top Series.Topping the charts is Australian born, London-based sculptor...
John Chamberlain passed away yesterday at the age of 85. In his memory, ARTINFO is reposting this account of visiting the artist's fabled Long Island studio to see his last works. It was originally published on September 19, 2011.Walking through John...
In February 2010, an anonymous painting of an owl in a bare tree, with a cloudy sky in the background, appeared in the online catalogue of a Cannes auction house. It was mixed in with bric-a-brac from various local estates and estimated at a modest €100 ($135...
Last week, British culture minister Ed Vaizey placed a temporary export ban on Edouard Manet's "Mademoiselle Claus" in the hopes that an institution or individual will purchase it and keep it in the country. It won't come cheap, naturally: the buyer will need...
