Market News
English, Canada
Published: June 17, 2013
by Eileen Kinsella |
A host of factors have led to recent art becoming the center of the market action.
Auctions
Last month, Christie’s realized a hefty $495 million in a single sale — its May 15 evening auction of postwar and...
About 50 of Mahatma Gandhi’s belongings were up for sale at Ludlow Racecourse on May 21, as part of Mullock’s ...
NEW YORK — Auction history was made at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday, which raked...
NEW YORK — Sold to benefit conservation projects for endangered species, the 33 donated art works in the Leonardo...
What I’m about to say might be self-evident if you are on the business end of the art world, but if you aren’t, listen...
In the wake of the now largely forgotten price-fixing scandal of 2000, which saw Christie’s and Sotheby’s jointly...
Collecting
Last month, Christie’s realized a hefty $495 million in a single sale — its May 15 evening auction of postwar and...
This is the second part of Art+Auction's “50 Next Most Collectible Artists.” To see the first part, click here.To see...
Last year we set out on what some might call a fool’s errand by selecting the 50 most collectible living artists....
I was taken aback recently when one dealer blithely said “18” after I asked how many fairs he had attended in the past...
Frieze New York returns to Randall's Island for its second edition May 10 to 13. In addition to works on display from...
Frieze returns to Randall’s Island for its sophomore edition May 10–13, determined not to be a one hit wonder....
Galleries
On July 16, 2012, a painting by a little-known artist sold at Christie’s for $74,500, nearly ten times its...
NEW YORK — This morning at 303 Gallery, three men in black shirts and jeans were busy tearing up the space in a...
Imagine that a young gallerist shells out $13,000 for a booth at an indie art fair like Volta or Independent. Tack on...
The Armory Show may be celebrating its centennial, but young artists — and the collectors who support them...
First-day transactions are not quite reminiscent of the boom times, when booths would be sold out within an hour of...
Stakes are high for a young gallery’s debut at the Armory Show. Emerging dealers shell out tens of thousands of...
Art & Crime
It was a plagarism streak that began with the infamous 2010 MTV Video Music Awards “meat dress” — clearly, an obvious...
Montreal artist Jennifer Pawluck, 20, was arrested yesterday morning after posting a photo of a piece of anti-...
When thieves broke into his Toronto art gallery early Sunday morning and stole three valuable paintings -- including...
On the heels of the recent faux-bioterrorism scandal at dOCUMENTA (13), which involved the reputed (if...
Columnists
The last week has been something of a rollercoaster of news about the Los Angeles museum world. First, after months —...