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Ana Prvacki Performance Video - artmarketblog.com
2009-03-01 03:20:00 Ana Prvacki Performance Video - artmarketblog.com In September last year during the Sydney Biennale, at the request of New Art TV, I interviewed Singapore based, Serbian born artist Ana Prvacki. As part of the Biennale, Prvacki performed a work titled “Music Derived Painkiller” which involved the collection of saliva from a flute performance. Intrigued?. If ...
Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 3 - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-27 12:34:00 Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 3 - artmarketblog.com 2. Percentage of lots sold by value In part 2 of this series of posts on the real value of the statistics that are used to determine the success of a sale, I conducted an in depth analysis of the percentage of lots sold by number statistic. The ...
Adam Reeder and Pan?s Ipod - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-26 04:25:00 Adam Reeder and Pan’s Ipod - artmarketblog.com If I am going to be honest I have never really been a big fan of classical figurative sculpture but after being introduced to the work of California based artist Adam Reeder I may have rethink my position. Judging by the pictures on his website, Reeder is a very ... More About: Adam
Mai-Thu Perret Edition from Parkett Art - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-24 04:31:00 Mai-Thu Perret Edition from Parkett Art - artmarketblog.com Mai-Thu Perret is a rather interesting Swiss artist who I was not really aware of until recently when I came across a rather intriguing limited edition of Perret’s work being sold at Parkett Art. An exhibition of Perret’s work titled “New Work: Mai-Thu Perret” is currently on ...
Boo Saville at Trolley Gallery - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-22 18:08:00 Boo Saville at Trolley Gallery - artmarketblog.com There is no doubt that British artist Boo Saville has a fascination with death and the effects that different causes of death have on the human body and it’s appearance. The latest solo exhibition of Boo’s work titled ‘Butter Sunk’ is currently on shown at London’s Trolley Gallery ...
The YSL Art Collection Sale - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-20 23:14:00 The YSL Art Collection Sale - artmarketblog.com For at least six months, the sale of the Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent collection has been the focus of much media attention, described as the “sale of the century”. At a time when The Art Market Confidence Index (AMCI) is firmly in the red, the means allocated ...
Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 2 - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-19 12:19:00 Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 2 - artmarketblog.com In Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 1 (see here) I began to take an in depth look at how people interpret auction results and exactly what it is that determines whether an art auction has been a success or not. Continuing on from that post I want ...
Dissecting Christie?s Feb 09 Art Auction Pt. 1 - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-17 05:38:00 Dissecting Christie ’s Feb 09 Art Auction Pt. 1 - artmarketblog.com I am going to make a slight diversion from my previous post on evaluating art auction results (which will be continued very soon) because I want to take a bit more of an in depth look into the actual works that were included in the recent ...
Investing in Social Art Projects - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-15 09:47:00 Investing in Social Art Projects - artmarketblog.com A new project called Trust Art (http://www.trustart.org) which is described as “A stock market for cultural renewal” has recently been launched by the founders of Fame Game (http://www.famegame.com). According to the Fame Game website “FAME GAME is a rapidly-growing website that maps and analyzes your social connections and ... More About: Investing
Osian?s Art Fund Emerges as High Yielding Asset Class in Global Meltdown -
2009-02-13 05:14:00 Osian?s Art Fund Emerges as High Yielding Asset Class in Global Meltdown - artmarketblog.com Osian?s, today presented the 5th Six Monthly Disclosure Report (10 July 2008 - 9 January 2009) on behalf of the privately placed closed-ended Osian?s Art Fund (OAF). The Report establishes that the Osian?s Art Fund is one of the few investments providing ...
Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 1 - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-12 05:24:00 Evaluating Art Auction Results Pt. 1 - artmarketblog.com In my last post I wrote about how the figures released by the auction houses after an auction can be rather deceiving. Almost every article I have read on the recent February Impressionist and Modern Art auctions says that these auctions were a major success. One ...
Photography Auction at iGavel - artmarkeblog.com
2009-02-10 16:15:00 Photography Auction at iGavel - artmarkeblog.com As I have mentioned before, the great thing about iGavel auctions is that all the sellers are professionals and all the objects offered on the iGavel site are guaranteed for authenticity and condition. The only way anyone other than the a registered associate of iGavel can sell an item on ... More About: Photography
The Reality of Feb 09 Art Auctions - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-09 02:43:00 The Reality of Feb 09 Art Auctions - artmarketblog.com The first round of major art auctions for 09 have proven that there is still a considerable amount of money available to be spent on top quality and rare works of art provided the price is right. Fresh works from private collections appeared to be particularly ...
Effects of the Correction on Emerging Art Markets - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-06 23:15:00 Effects of the Correction on Emerging Art Markets - artmarketblog.com The most speculative and volatile markets over the last four years, emerging art markets have propelled a number of Chinese, Indian, Russian and Middle-Eastern contemporary artists into the global limelight with extraordinary speed. But with so many young artists fetching such big figures at auctions, some ... More About: Effects
Finding the Next Young British Artists - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-05 00:50:00 Finding the Next Young British Artists - artmarketblog.com Charles Saatchi’s art world claim to fame is his discovery of Damien Hirst and the other artists of the YBA (Young British Artist) movement in the early 90’s. In an effort to recreate the success of the YBA movement Saatchi, in conjunction with the BBC, has launched a ...
Selling High-End Art Online - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-03 12:27:00 Selling High -End Art Online - artmarketblog.com There are many different websites where one can buy and sell art but most of those websites are for artists to sell their work directly to the public. What if you want to sell a valuable and prized work from your collection?. Are there websites that cater to ... More About: Selling
Sotheby?s Contemporary Turkish Art Sale - artmarketblog.com
2009-02-01 20:28:00 Sotheby’s Contemporary Turkish Art Sale - artmarketblog.com Last post I wrote about how auction houses introduce new sale categories to entice buyers, create buzz and take advantage of emerging markets. Also in my last post I mentioned that Sotheby’s have introduced a new Contemporary Turkish Art sale category which will be tested out for the first ... More About: Sotheby
Specialist Sales Entice Art Buyers - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-30 19:18:00 Specialist Sales Entice Art Buyers - artmarketblog.com During times of crisis, art auction houses tend to get creative and start looking at new ways of encouraging sellers and enticing buyers. One of the tactics that the auction houses use to try and generate new business is to create new sale categories and types of specialist ...
Private Collections and the 09 Art Market - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-29 04:15:00 Private Collections and the 09 Art Market - artmarketblog.com There have not been any major auctions of art yet this year but the auctions that have been conducted are already giving clues as to what to expect in 2009. Two auctions of single owner private collections were conducted in January both of which were very ... More About: Private
Artprice Launches My Art Collection - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-28 05:08:00 Artprice Launches My Art Collection - artmarketblog.com Artprice has just announced the launch My Art Collection, the first free and confidential art portfolio management service. This service, now available to Artprice’s 1,300,000 subscribers is available as of today for professional or amateur art collectors anywhere in the world. http://web.artprice.com/portfolio/login.a spx However much you spend on art, the value ...
Australian Art Market 08 Review Part 3 - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-26 16:12:00 Australian Art Market 08 Review Part 3 - artmarketblog.com Two important art world events took place in Australia in 2008 the first of which was the biennial Melbourne Art Fair and the second being the Sydney Biennale. The biennial Melbourne Art Fair took place from the 30 July ? 3 August at the Royal Exhibition Building ... More About: Australian , Part 3
Sigmar Polke at Editions Schellmann - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-25 12:49:00 Sigmar Polke at Editions Schellmann - artmarketblog.com German artist Sigmar Polke is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential artists of the post-war generation. Polke is often grouped with other important German artists such as Keifer, Penck, Richter and Immendorf all of whom were part of the Neo-Expressionist movement. The Neo-Expressionist movement developed in ...
An Important Message for Art Buyers - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-23 04:43:00 An Important Message for Art Buyers - artmarketblog.com If you take a close look at the available data, information, opinions, analysis and reviews that relate to the art market you will find that a very large majority come from art market professionals. The same art market professionals whose livelihood depends on the ability to profit from ...
The Market for Neo-Impressionism - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-21 19:17:00 The Market for Neo-Impressionism - artmarketblog.com Neo-Impressionism is the specific name given to the Post-Impressionist work of Seurat and Signac and their followers. The work of the Neo-Impressionists is characterised by the use of tiny dots or dabs of paint which, when viewed from a distance, appear to the viewer as being mixed. The neo-impressionist masterpieces ...
Art Market Correction Survival Tactics - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-19 18:42:00 Art Market Correction Survival Tactics - artmarketblog.com Let’s face it, art auctions are mainly about two things - money and excitement. Best suited to those buyers who don’t care what they buy as long as it is a potentially profitable bargain, art auctions are far more beneficial to the investor than to the collector. ...
MYARTSPACE 2008 Scholarship Winners - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-18 18:09:00 MYARTSPACE 2008 Scholarship Winners - artmarketblog.com MYARTSPACE (myartspace.com), the awesome online venue for the contemporary art world, has just announced the winners of the 2008 MYARTSPACE undergraduate cash scholarship competition. The scholarship is intended for students who exhibits exceptional artistic excellence in all mediums of the visual arts including photography and video, both contemporary and traditional ...
Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-17 16:05:00 Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art - artmarketblog.com The work of Jenny Holzer, one of the most influential and most important artists of her generation, is currently the subject of a major retrospective that has been organised by the Chigago MCA and the Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition, titled “Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT” focuses on the last fifteen ... More About: Jenny
The Art Market is Not Immune - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-15 09:36:00 The Art Market is Not Immune - artmarketblog.com There are lots of things that bother me about the way that art investment and the art market are portrayed. One of the things that bothers me quite a bit is the frequency of which the art market is referred to as being immune to economic or ...
Important New Limited Editions - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-13 11:41:00 Important New Limited Editions - artmarketblog.com Several new and important limited edition prints by some top artists have either just been launched or are about to be launched. The Black Rat Press will be releasing the latest print by the incredibly popular graffiti artist Nick Walker at the London Art Fair which starts on the 13th ...
Australian Art Market 08 Review Part 2 - artmarketblog.com
More articles from this author:2009-01-12 05:05:00 Australian Art Market 08 Review Part 2 - artmarketblog.com By the last round of auctions for 2008 in November and December it was obvious that the auction industry was still coming to terms with the art market correction taking place despite the fact that signs of a cooling market had been evident for several months prior. ... More About: Australian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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