By Anny Shaw | From Armory daily edition, 4 Mar 11 Published online 4 Mar 11 Edited by Valentina Tintori Artists love it as a medium, but are collectors and dealers too busy for time-based work at an art fair? Collecting video art Despite the relatively recent popularity of videos at art fairs, there are [...]
by Javier Lumbreras Art plays a fundamental role in the history of man; in their culture, spirituality, intellectuality and finances. For centuries, art was reserved for the elite members of society. In this day and age, while understanding the complexities of a composition does require some degree of education and sophistication, anyone who has the [...]
It was an intimate chat between a man and a woman in a bedroom that turned Rob Orley into an art collector five years ago. ”I felt I could feel the conversation,” says Orley of the Christian Vincent painting that inflamed his passion for American-modern figurative art–a representational genre that seeks to depict humanity with [...]
The Market for Major Works Is Heating Up, but Small Investors Can Get Chiseled By MARY PILON On May 4, Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust” sold for $106.5 million at Christie’s in New York, setting the world record for any work of art sold at an auction. Which has art-loving investors wondering: Is the [...]
By Maria Brito May, 26 2010 Contemporary art is always a hot topic, but never more so than in the last ten or fifteen years. There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest has been the high cost of collecting. The price for top-tier artists was over-the-top for a long period of [...]
By Maria Brito New York Art critics, curators, gallerists and just plain fans can spend hours writing about this brilliant Brazilian artist who lives in Brooklyn and whose name is Vik Muniz. I love Vik, collect him, and truly believe that he is one of the greatest contemporary artists of the 21st century. “Mass” -Created [...]
As he prepares to open a new gallery in London, dealer Iwan Wirth tells us how the recession has affected his business. By Charlotte Burns | From issue 210, February 2010 Published online 27 Jan 10 (market) THE ART NEWSPAPER online. Iwan Wirth, 39, is one of the three founders of Hauser & Wirth which has [...]