Category: visual

“The art world is watching to see whether the tumultuous changes wrought by its president and chief executive, Tad Smith, are paying off.”

“The curator says Africa must have confidence in itself to dream and make things happen. Njami has selected a younger group of Africans this year among the 70 exhibiting artists from 24 countries. The wheels of time must change, he says, to mix up the stew and make sure it’s not the same old soup of established artists in the cooking pot.”

“As campaigners prepare to mark the 200th anniversary of the antiquities’ ‘captivity’ in London, Athens is working at forging alliances that would further empower its longstanding battle to retrieve the sculptures.”

The painting’s journey is “a story that involves eagle-eyed Paris art dealers and a New York financier with deep pockets and a fondness for Dutch art.”

“Were there a futures market for artworks, this would be a good time to short certain submarkets.”

“Marisol stood out for having a unique and eclectic style that resulted in majestic and often fascinating assemblages, or what art historian Cindy Nemser termed ‘collaged sculptures.'”

This year, Christie’s has guaranteed just 18 of the 100 lots at its two headline contemporary auctions. Three of these guarantees, with a total low estimate of $13 million, have been provided by Christie’s itself. No work is valued at more than $40 million at Christie’s or at any of the other houses. “The guarantees aren’t there anymore at the highest level. Christie’s has stepped back, and the market is no longer on steroids and is returning to its normal state.”

“Uncompleted works are not just pieces of biographical information. Since classical times, their appeal has been understood, and artists have had to accept that what they leave unfinished may be exposed to the public, and may even be more admired than their finished productions.”