The owners of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach have “bought a 60% stake in Asian Art Fairs, the owner of the Hong Kong fair ArtHK (which opens its fourth edition in three weeks on 26 May), for an undisclosed price.”
Category: visual
Warning: Today’s Digital Art Will Be Lost Without Better Conservation
“A team of experts is warning that some of Britain’s contemporary artistic landmarks will be no more than memories within a decade unless conservationists can effectively archive digital works and stop them degrading.”
Sotheby’s Proposes 125 Percent Pay Raises For Its Top Execs
“The total compensation, up 125% from $6.8m in 2009, includes base salaries, plus other annual remunerations such as cash incentive bonuses and awards of Sotheby’s shares. These additional perks take the total level of pay to at least five times these executives’ base salary, and nearly nine times for the chief executive William Ruprecht.”
Australian Curators Band Together To Protest Budget Cuts
“Staff say key institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum and the Australian War Memorial will be at breaking point if they suffer any more reduction in resources in next week’s federal budget.”
Great American Wilderness Meets Graduate Art Seminar, Courtesy Of Texas Tech
“Called Land Arts of the American West, the classes take place in a pair of heavy-duty Ford vans or wherever the vans and the camping gear they carry end up stopping during a 7,000-mile, two-month drive that a handful of participants … make throughout the West.”
Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright House In L.A. To Get Windows And Roof Fixed At Last
“For its 90th birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is getting another round of rejuvenating restoration work, … [which] will make the notoriously leaky building more watertight, with new roofing for its enclosed porch and solutions to an assortment of drainage problems.”
‘King Of Kowloon,’ Hong Kong’s Top Outsider Artist, Finally Gets Respect
“A toothless garbageman who once wandered Hong Kong’s streets with dingy bags of ink and brushes tied to his crutches is now the subject of a major retrospective.” Tsang Tsou-choi “spent half a century dodging security guards and police officers as he obsessively covered lampposts and mailboxes, slums and ferry piers, with his distinctive Chinese text.”
Why Care About Art Auction Prices?
“The reporting of art sales – and beyond that, the figures themselves – create totally false narratives of the supposed value of art. Prices are given historic significance. Does it mean anything that Picasso is now so expensive? Did it mean anything when Klimt set a record? Does it tell us anything profound about our society if rich people buy contemporary art in preference to Old Masters, or vice versa?”
Commission Recommends National Museum Of Latino History For US Capitol
“In very clear language, the report says national recognition of Hispanic contributions to America is long overdue. ‘The Mall, more than any other public space in our country does indeed tell the story of America, and yet that story is not complete’.”
Director Of American Folk Art Museum Quits After Museum Misses Payments
The museum, a few feet west of the Museum of Modern Art on Manhattan’s W. 53rd Street, missed $3.7 million in payments to a debt service fund connected to bonds issued to construct a new building, it said in a January filing. It didn’t expect to make payments into the fund “for the foreseeable future,” the museum said.