Asia Week New York brought in $200m in sales. Dealers and auction houses ... The nine-day umbrella event featured special exhibitions by 47 galleries as well as 19 sales at four auction houses, with works on show ranging from archaic Chinese bronzes to ...full story
“Buying art is an investment. It's like buying stock or buying gold,” said Subhashok Angkasuwansiri, long-time art collector and president of the Adler Subhashok Gallery, a collaboration between the internationally-renowned Adler gallery and Subhashok.and more »full story
Now Common Practice has inspired a branch in New York whose members include the venerable not-for-profits White Columns – which was co-founded by Gordon Matta-Clark and Jeffrey Lew – and The Kitchen, where artists such as Vito Acconci and Cindy Sherman ...full story
In December 2012, the highest auction price for an Old Master drawing (and the second-highest for any Old Master ever) was reached, when the New York collector Leon Black paid £29.7 million for Raphael's black chalk drawing “Head of a Young Apostle” at ...full story
Amelia Manderscheid, Christie's head of eCommerce postwar and contemporary art, explains that buyers can simply give a set limit to Christie's. “A maximum bid ... The Munich- and London-based dealer Daniel Blau says he is “troubled” by the lack of ...full story
... religious themes and sub-texts have inspired the art and architecture of the mansion. We hear Rajeev Sethi, the man behind Mumbai's T2's Art Walk, has been working on the art and the architectural plan, both of which draw from Indian culture and ...full story
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) — A Delhi-based artist has made it to the final list of a prestigious art award, along with other four others from different parts of India, organisers announced Tuesday. Tauseef Khan (Delhi), Sirivella Pragathikumar and ...full story
The curator's preference, therefore, is for art that is playful and engaging, not too demanding on a conceptual level, but which has its own integrity, and a poetic outlook. Sydney Biennale Belgium artist Tinka Pittoors in front of her artwork ...full story
The Australian government has reacted with menacing threats to arts funding after the board of the Sydney Biennale, a contemporary art festival, renounced its sponsorship arrangement with Transfield Holdings, an Australian transnational involved in ...full story
Sydney will lose yet another commercial art gallery, with the announcement that the well-regarded Eva Breuer gallery will close in May. Director Nicky McWilliam says it was a ''very difficult'' decision to close the Woollahra gallery, which was opened ...full story