Collecting
NEW YORK — Since its soft opening in December 2011, the new Acme restaurant located at 9 Great Jones Street has had its share of notable art-world diners. Chuck Close has been spotted there, Paul Kasmin Gallery celebrated Will Ryman’s exhibition opening, and Vladimir Roitfeld, Creative Time, Art Space, and Lehmann Maupin have all held...
When Eli Broad was in school, his classmates got a kick out of calling him "broad" (rhymes with "rod"). Unhappy with the bullying his name incurred, he changed it. Young Eli started telling people his last name was "Broad" rhymes with "road." It stuck, and an innovator was born.But whatever talents Broad may have in creating Fortune...
In a move that has excited the Australian art world, former Australian cricket player Glenn Mcgrath AM and wife Sara Leonardi-Mcgrath are opening a new commercial art gallery in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale.Due to open on the 15th of May, Mclemoi Gallery will be run by Leonardi-Mcgrath and managed by her best friend Kristia Moises...
As part of their sale of the Bentley Collection of British Gold Sovereigns, London based A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. (Baldwin's) will auction one of the rarest Australian coins to have ever been offered for sale. To be offered in three parts, part two of the sale to be sold on the 27th of September will feature an extremely rare...
The Deutscher and Hackett (D and H) May 2nd Important Australian + International Fine Art Auction catalogue was a fine piece of engineering that appears to have been constructed to produce maximum effect with minimal risk.A sale total of $5,532,870, 72% sold by volume, 93% sold by value and a new auction record for Arthur Streeton, which...
Melbourne, Australia born artist Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) is the new queen of the Grosvenor school print market after one of her works set a new record for a Grosvenor school print at a Bonhams auction held in London on the 17th of April.A copy of Spowers’ The Gust of Wind, sold as part of Bonhams ‘The Grosvenor School and Avant-Garde...
Reflecting on Pacific Standard Time — the six month-long, Getty-led initiative devoted to reexamining the art of Los Angeles from 1945 to 1980 — L.A. Times critic Christopher Knight quipped that one of the event’s most lasting effects might be to offer an “inadvertent shopping list.” Many first-rate works of art included in Pacific...
How young is too young to become an art collector?The children's art print Web site Little Collector is making a business out of the argument that you can never be too young. "We start with a little talk about hands in pockets, how to act in the group, and just how to be respectful with the art," Chrissy Crawford, the site's founder...
Denis Savill, one of Australia’s most successful and highly respected art dealers, has once again commanded the attention of the Australian art market by offering for sale a large major work by the highly sought after Australian artist Brett Whiteley as part of his latest "Modern Masters" selling exhibition.The fresh-to-market painting...
Art collecting is a hobby that requires a significant amount of cash — and Hollywood has it. Add to that a certain air of intelligence and immortality lent by displaying a Picasso or Hirst in your living room and it is no wonder that many celebrities turn to art collecting after their careers take off. Attend a contemporary auction at...
