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New Shanghai Art Fair Wows Critics, Dealers

Western traders are panicked, but in China the market's booming

(Newser) - Western art dealers are jittery about the coming month's fairs in London and Paris, but at Shanghai's first international contemporary art fair the mood was buy, buy, buy. The Telegraph traveled to ShContemporary, a fair that assembled galleries from Asia, Europe and the US. Censorship might reign in the People's...

Warriors Invade British Museum
Warriors Invade British Museum
Sep 6, 2007 12:48 PM CDT

Warriors Invade British Museum

Terracotta warriors travel to London for landmark exhibition

(Newser) - British papers have been absorbed with stories of Chinese hackers, but another set of Chinese warriors has invaded London: the millennia-old terracotta statues that guard the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi. The Telegraph is presenting a preview of the British Museum's The First Emperor, an exhibition years in the making that...

Uncertain Art World Awaits Fall Sales
Uncertain Art World Awaits Fall Sales
Aug 29, 2007 10:47 AM CDT

Uncertain Art World Awaits Fall Sales

Credit crisis has auctioneers, galleries bracing for bear market

(Newser) - As the art world returns from its summer hiatus, dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are on edge about a possible downturn in the market, the Times reports. Fallout from the global credit crunch has led to speculation that astronomical prices for art, particularly in the contemporary sector, may be heading for...

Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?
Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?
Aug 15, 2007 8:42 PM CDT

Are They Pollocks or Bollocks?

Scientist says pigments on the paintings weren't patented while artist was alive

(Newser) - Paintings dug out of an old Hamptons locker might light up the art world with multi-million dollar sales or prove to be utter fakes, Newsweek reports. Marked “Pollock Experiments” and dribbled in the American artist’s style, the small pictures on cardboard will be drawing crowds in Boston next...

Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies
Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies
Aug 13, 2007 8:59 AM CDT

Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

Adventurous artist reshaped Modernism

(Newser) - Elizabeth Murray, a painter whose vivid, cartoon-based work was part of a contemporary movement away from minimalism, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 66. A leading figure in the New York art scene, Murray won a MacArthur genius grant in 1999 and enjoyed a retrospective at MoMA last year.

Stolen Picassos Recovered
Stolen Picassos Recovered
Aug 9, 2007 5:18 AM CDT

Stolen Picassos Recovered

Trio busted in theft of $66M paintings lifted from Paris home of artist's granddaughter

(Newser) - Two stolen Picassos worth more than $66 million have been recovered by French police who swooped in as the thieves were about to sell the rolled-up canvases. Tipped off by a suspicious art dealer, investigators set up round-the-clock surveillance of  the suspects for more than a month. Three men have...

Art Heist at French Museum
Art Heist at French Museum
Aug 6, 2007 8:29 AM CDT

Art Heist at French Museum

Sisley, Monet lost when gunmen storm French museum in brazen daylight heist

(Newser) - Hooded gunmen stormed a French museum in Nice yesterday afternoon and stole two Brueghel masterpieces, a Sisley, and a Monet. The thieves ordered employees to lie on the floor before stuffing the paintings in bags and fleeing. Police believe the heist was a "special order" for a private buyer...

New Van Gogh Surfaces
New Van Gogh Surfaces
Aug 3, 2007 6:20 PM CDT

New Van Gogh Surfaces

Work created during stay at asylum

(Newser) - A previously undiscovered Van Gogh has been found hiding in plain sight—beneath another painting. Conservators at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts X-rayed The Ravine, revealing another painting created several months earlier, the MFA and the Van Gogh Museum said today. A pen-and-ink drawing of the concealed painting, Wild Vegetation,...

Getty Sends Looted Art Home
Getty Sends Looted Art Home
Aug 2, 2007 4:49 AM CDT

Getty Sends Looted Art Home

Italy wins decades-long fight over illegally purchased antiquities

(Newser) - The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Italy 40 works of art, including some of the finest in the museum's collection, following a decades-long legal battle. The museum has agreed to give up dozens of  masterpieces that Italy claims were looted, including its signature 5th-century marble...

London Art Sales Soar
London Art Sales Soar
Jun 25, 2007 11:45 AM CDT

London Art Sales Soar

Bacon tops Sotheby's contemporary auctions; London shows new art-market clout

(Newser) - Francis Bacon took top honors and Damien Hirst became the highest-priced living artist—beating out Jasper Johns—at Sotheby's contemporary auctions in London last week. A 1971 Bacon self-portrait went for $43.2 million, and the Hirst pill cabinet called "Lullaby Spring" for $19.4 million. "Hirst is...

Diamonds Are a Skull's Best Friend
Diamonds
Are a Skull's Best Friend
Jun 2, 2007 3:10 PM CDT

Diamonds Are a Skull's Best Friend

Platinum cast + 8,601 jewels = $100M price tag

(Newser) - The priciest work of modern art ever created is on view at a London gallery, priced at just $100 million. Death-obsessed artist Damien Hirst cast a human skull in platinum and encrusted it with diamonds, creating a piece he calls "For the Love of God." He kept the...

Museum Bids to Turn eBay to Art
Museum Bids to Turn
eBay to Art
May 29, 2007 9:16 AM CDT

Museum Bids to Turn eBay to Art

Vermont museum gives celebs $1000 to blow online, then curates finds

(Newser) - Ebay as high culture? The Shelburne Museum in Vermont is showcasing the online auction winnings of celebs such as Jerry Seinfeld, Bianca Jagger, and John Lurie, in an exhibition titled "Got eBay? Celebrity Collections Created Online." Museum director Stephen Jost gave a group of big names $1000 each...

Artist Gets Museum Show, Whether He Likes It or Not

(Newser) - A New England museum will display an artist's work against his will, the New York Times reports. Swiss provocateur Christoph Büchel, who recreates environments for visitors to wander through, shut down his show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art after a squabble over budget constraints. But the museum...

$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record
$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record
May 17, 2007 4:33 PM CDT

$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record

Auction madness continues as contemporary-art market sizzles

(Newser) - An Andy Warhol painting sold for $71.7 million last night at Christie's, more than quadrupling the previous record price for a work by the pop artist. The price for "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series, more than doubled...

Bubbles Painter Washed Up No Longer
Bubbles Painter Washed Up
No Longer
May 16, 2007 2:42 PM CDT

Bubbles Painter Washed Up No Longer

Britain's Tate plans retrospective on soapy artist Millais

(Newser) - London's Tate Britain gallery is trying to rescue the cred of a Victorian painter whose best known work is synonymous with crass commercialism. Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais is best known for Bubbles, which he sold to the Pears Soap company to make it one of the most reproduced images in...

Rothko Fetches $73 Million
Rothko Fetches $73 Million
May 16, 2007 8:18 AM CDT

Rothko Fetches $73 Million

Record price for seminal modern work marks trend in art purchases

(Newser) - Sotheby’s sold a Mark Rothko painting last night for $72.84 million, a record price for a piece of art created after World War II and a signal of a new boom in the market. Seller David Rockefeller bought the 7-foot-tall "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender),"...

Polish Artist Installs Huge Nude Balloon in Italy

(Newser) - Polish artist Pawel Althamer has placed a 70-foot long nude balloon in a plaza in Milan. It is a self-portrait of the artist.  In Italy such a sculpture is "nothing new."   A passing American commented that it "wouldn't fly" in the U.S.

Mexicans Stand for Art, Nudity
Mexicans Stand for Art, Nudity
May 7, 2007 10:00 AM CDT

Mexicans Stand for Art, Nudity

Thousands go au naturel for photo shoot

(Newser) - A mob of some 20,000 Mexicans stormed the capital yesterday morning not to protest, but to show off their birthday suits. The stark-naked crowd pranced around Mexico City's historic plaza as part of a giant photo shoot orchestrated by New York–based photographer Spencer Tunick, a well-known buff of...

I Bought Andy Warhol
I Bought Andy Warhol  
Apr 30, 2007 8:26 AM CDT

I Bought Andy Warhol

Pop artist's mass-produced work climbs in price, prestige worldwide

(Newser) - Hipsters have known it forever, and buyers are catching on: Andy Warhol is the hottest artist around. The Times reports that his sales, including a projected $35 million for a painting at Christie’s next month, are second only to Picasso's. One expert calls Warhol "the most important international...

The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

Blumenthal connects the dots from cowboy art to Abu Ghraib

(Newser) - You can learn a lot from the art in someone's office, says Sidney Blumenthal, even the oval one. George Bush's prized painting of cowboys riding into the unseen helps explain his "stay the course" mentality, while a painting of the Alamo feeds W's evangelically inflected insistence on a "...

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