Art Market The Most In-Demand Artists at Art Fairs in the First Half of 2019
Artsy - Jefff Koons and KAWS dominated the conversation during this year’s spring auctions. - read more ...
San Francisco museum’s Rothko sells for $50m
The Art Newspaper - After a week of strong spring sales across New York’s auction houses, the mood at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale in New York last night was jubilant if not down right rambunctious. - re...
Christie’s “Staggering” Contemporary Auction Makes Record $853 Million
Art In America - As bidding hit $62 million on a blackboard-like Cy Twombly canvas at Christie’s New York on Wednesday night, the normally hushed atmosphere was disrupted. Heads turned as an auction-goer cried ...
The Global Art Market Reached $67.4 Billion in 2018, up 6%
Artsy - The global art market grew 6% in 2018 to $67.4 billion in sales, according to economist Clare McAndrew’s report The Art Market 2019, released by Art Basel and UBS on Friday. That total makes 2018 the se...
At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays
The New York Times - Along with a handful of other galleries clustered near the entrance to the fair on Pier 94, Tanya Bonakdar was in the first version of the Armory Show 25 years ago. Called The Gramercy Int...
Shifts among the major auction houses could spell serious change
The Art Newspaper - The brain drain of executives from auction houses continues apace. In the third shock departure in roughly as many weeks, Loic Gouzer, Christie’s co-chairman of post-war and contemporary art...
Bidding Farewell to ‘Castelli Model’ of Doing Business
ARTNEWS - In its new incarnation as a private dealership, New York’s Cheim & Read gallery will commission unspecified artists for a mural in Palm Beach in conjunction with that city’s Norton Museum of Art i...
Kerry James Marshall Paints for Chicago. His Mural Should Stay There
The New York Times - The painter Kerry James Marshall was born in Alabama, but he is defined by Chicago: the city he moved to in 1987, and whose private salons and public housing projects have inspired an art o...
Christie’s Notches £84 Million London Sale as Star Lots by Richter and Koons Fizzle
Artsy - The spree of Frieze auctions kicked off in London on Thursday with a three-hour-long sale at Christie’s King Street salesroom here in London’s Mayfair. The night brought in a total of £84.6 million ($10...
How Tony Shafrazi Went from Vandalizing “Guernica” to Inventing a Market for Graffiti Art
Artsy - On February 28, 1974, Tony Shafrazi entered the Museum of Modern Art in New York, went to the third floor, took out a can of red spray paint, and defaced Pablo Picasso ’s anti-war masterpiece Guernica (...