By Tamara Walid DUBAI (Reuters) - Art buyers from across the Middle East crowded Christie's auction room in Dubai, bidding briskly to bag a bargain as prices fall in the global downturn. A painting sale, marking the start of the region's auction season ... full story
Step back to look at the bigger picture and a pattern seems to be emerging, one that could very well imply art investment is defying global market predictions. This region in particular has reaped in the benefits when earlier this year, Art Dubai, ... full story
Many top galleries came and observed the fair last year and decided to join this year," said fair director Magnus Renfrew. There will be more than 110 galleries from 24 countries exhibiting. Exciting newcomers include White Cube from London, ... full story
The Art Institute's new modern wing allows the sun to spotlight the works.. The Modern Wing will increase the overall size of the museum by one-third -- making it the second-largest art museum in the United States after New York's Metropolitan Museum ... full story
Such is the case with the New York artist Jonathan Horowitz in this smart, crisply edited retrospective. The works evoke the media-saturated art of the 1970s, the neo-Conceptualist consumer art of the 1980s, and the identity art of the 1990s, ... full story
Next week, the Contemporary Art sales take place in New York with a pre-sale estimate of $80/$112 million. Highlighting the sales is Jeff Koons' Baroque Egg with Bow (Turquoise/Magenta), a large sculpture that is modeled after a chocolate Easter egg ... full story
The exhibition was organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. It was funded, in part, by The New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art; ... full story
... Chinese contemporary art. Indeed, even as the art bubble was bursting, two of Mr. Liao's pieces sold for double their auction estimates in mainland China last December and all of his original sculptures featured in the New York show have sold. ... full story
By Scott Reyburn May 11 (Bloomberg) -- Tracey Emin's new erotic drawings are set to entice art collectors as London dealership White Cube attempts to reignite the cooled market for contemporary works. The UK artist's first exhibition in London in four ... full story
The term 'Bantamwork', which contemporary laymen referred to as 'cutt-work', 'cutt Japan' or 'hollow burnt Japan', refers to decoration that is cut into a layer of gesso and then lacquered in colours as opposed to flat lacquer or 'japanned' decoration. ... full story
