Art Market
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. Launched on the 22nd of May, the site will also provide a place for commercial 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 Melbourne, The New Fair will present five galleries and an art bookstore from regions...
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 existence of individuals who wore the items (while darkly evoking 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 thieves, daring them to steal a work of art by Banksy from one of their hotels....
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 Ron Mueck, whose Big Baby (1996) sold for US$1,117,200 at Christie’s, London in...
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 Chamberlain's home and studio on Shelter Island, one is reminded of a basic fact: the...
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). When Parisian dealers Bertrand Talabardon and Bertrand Gautier...
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 to come up with £28.4 million ($43.9 million).In a statement, the department...
After working as an art teacher, Rizvan Rahman embarked on a second career as an art dealer in 2004, setting up business in Leicester under the name Haslam and Purdey and specializing in modern British art. He dealt with galleries and auction houses across Britain — and peddled fake paintings with remarkable ease. If clients discovered...
The Frieze Art Fair opened yesterday to energized crowds who were hungry to see what galleries brought to London's premier art fair — even if they didn't particularly feel like opening their wallets. What follows is a list of top ten best booths to see at the fair, in no particular order, and then the single worst thing at Frieze.[...
