New York Times:
“Continuous Present,” at the Yale University Art Gallery, examines how 11 artists work with ideas of time, presenting contemporary artwork in an engaging yet scholarly way.
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Slick Rick’s Eye Patch:Phillips de Pury’s Music Auction”Phillips de Pury is an esteemed auction house dating back to 1796. Its clientele includes Marie Antoinette, Beau Brummell and Napoleon. A different ilk of bidders, however, will be raising their paddles this Saturday as the firm holds its inaugural Music sale.Th (Read More)
New York Times:
The West Side is giving rise to an ad hoc group of contemporary art galleries that have styled themselves as a more intellectual alternative to the city’s designated downtown art district.
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New York Times:
The last two weeks of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions saw the return of a surprising number of collectors, their wallets open, but only if the price was right.
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New York Times:
The sales of contemporary art this week at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York were hugely successful, with bidders running up paintings, drawings and sundry three-dimensional works to three times the estimate.
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New York Times:
The evening sale of contemporary art at Phillips de Pury brought a vibrant week of auctions to an anemic close on Thursday night.
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New York Times:
The sale of his 1962 painting “200 One Dollar Bills” for $43.7 million on Wednesday confirmed yet again that Andy Warhol was the daddy of the contemporary art world.
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Love it or hate it, graffiti is the contemporary art. Someone may consider it vandalism, others think it vivifies our dull and gray modern cities. Anyway, it is great if it makes someone smile. (Read More)
New York Times:
Sotheby's successful contemporary art sale on Wednesday in New York included $43.76 million for a graphic work in silkscreen ink and pencil on canvas by Andy Warhol.
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In an auction in which major names in postwar and contemporary art were solid sellers, only one work — a 1996 painting by the Scottish artist Peter Doig — broke the $10 million barrier.
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What would Pope Urban VIII have made of Maxxi, the new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid on the outskirts of this city’s historic quarter?
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New York Times:
An upcoming show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art raises questions about the propriety of turning over a public museum to a collector who is also a trustee.
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New York Times:
In an auction in which major names in postwar and contemporary art were solid sellers, only one work — a 1996 painting by the Scottish artist Peter Doig — broke the $10 million barrier.
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