It’s hard to watch the crazy price velocities in Chinese contemporary art without some skepticism. So I was intrigued to read these articles in the International Herald Tribune and London’s Daily Telegraph. Even news outlets not regularly known for art commentary, like MSNBC, are weighing in.
Make no mistake. The destabilizing factors are all there:
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Where the money flows, fakes will follow.
The Times of London has reported that Christie’s had to pull a work from an upcoming modern and contemporary sale that its experts had attributed to the cross-dressing, Turner Prize-winning Brit artist Grayson Perry.
Seems the artist couldn’t verify its authenticity.
Declaring that forgery is the sincerest form of flattery, […]
ArtInfo.com has this short interview with Colorado contemporary art collectors Kent and Vicki Logan, known particularly for their large holdings of international contemporary art:
My Collection: Vicki and Kent Logan.
I love the quote at the bottom, under Advice for Beginning Collectors. Logan says: “Today, I would say, ‘See as much as you can, but keep […]
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Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft. Selections from the Wornick Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
September 10, 2007 - January 6, 2008
So just after I get my craft rant off my chest (two posts down), I get a press notice for this upcoming exhibition at the Boston MFA:
Shy Boy, She Devil, […]
Private dealer Richard Polsky has just written one of the more clear-headed discourses on the state of the current contemporary art market that I have read in a long while.
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/polsky/polsky04-02-07.asp
I, like Polsky, scratch my head at the crazy auction prices for artists like Marlene Dumas and Peter Doig. These are painters I look at and […]
Private sale
Jeff Koon’s Balloon Dog
Reported price: $17 million
Above: Balloon Dog belonging to the Eli Broad Foundation
Right now it’s just a rumor. But if it’s true, Steven Cohen is at it again, doing what he seems to do best: overpaying for another trophy artwork.
According to a mention in today’s Baer Faxt newsletter, several sources have […]
Sotheby’s London
Peter Doig, White Canoe, 1990-91
Estimate: $1.5 million–$2.3 million
Price Fetched: $11 million
At left: Sotheby’s Tobias Meyer orchestrating the bidding on Doig’s White Canoe
Call it contemporary impressionism, at vintage impressionist prices. Or call it uninformed buyers with too much money. But will someone please tell me what inspired bidders at Sotheby’s London to drive a 1990-91 […]
My jaw is still dragging on the floor from when Andreas Gursky’s supersized, 1999 photograph of bargain-store shelves sold for $2.2 million at Sotheby’s this May. Why would anyone nearly quadruple his record price ($611,000) from only four years ago? Call me a fuddy duddy, but I’m thinking that the dust of art history hasn’t […]
Christie’s Celebrity Memorabilia
June 22
Want to know what a good hair day feels like? Ask Andy Warhol’s nephew, Jeffrey Warhola, who recently consigned a handful of his uncle’s items to the June 22nd celeb memorabilia sale at Christie’s—most notably, one of the signature silver hairpieces that the pop art icon used to plop rakishly on his […]
