Share: SHANGHAI—Even ShContemporary’s new director, Colin Chinnery, says he was surprised at how well this year’s fair went off. After all, there were plenty of factors working against the Sept. 10–13 show, such as the economy, the recent departure of founding director Lorenzo Rudolf, competition from the sprightly and young Hong Kong fair Art HK, […]
Share:Six years ago, Pop art dealer Richard Polsky caused a stir in the art world with his gossipy memoir about the art business, “I Bought Andy Warhol.” Yesterday, he published a follow-up, “I Sold Andy Warhol (too soon),” which chronicles his days of chasing art deals during the height of the buying boom. Speakeasy called […]
Share:In the 1990s there was virtually no secondary art market in India. Between 2000 and 2008, the price index of Contemporary Art multiplied by seven! While Anish KAPOOR and Subodh GUPTA are among the world’s fifteen top-selling Contemporary artists with auction revenues of €11.2m and €10.7m respectively, the third top-selling Indian artist, TV SANTOSH, had […]
Share:Source – ForbesEditor – Sarah Wolff ”Hanging Fire” introduces Pakistan’s vibrant contemporary art scene to America. There are certain themes one expects to see in an overview of contemporary Pakistani art, like commentaries on politics, politics or perhaps … politics. The last large-scale show I’d seen of Pakistani art, in Dubai last year, focused on […]
Share:Source: timeoutmumbai Bodhi Art led the Indian art world to unimaginable heights but the economic slowdown has cast a shadow on the gallery’s future, writes Girish Shahane. Four down, two to go. Bodhi Art has closed its galleries in Delhi, Singapore, New York and Berlin. Its Kala Ghoda flagship appears on the verge of going […]
Share: Source: guardian.co.uk Ever since Andy Warhol, the worlds of art and finance have been inseparable. On the eve of Tate Modern’s Pop Life exhibition, Sean O’Hagan visits five art superstars in their studios to find out how the market drives their creative process Damien Hirst in his studio in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Photograph: Karen Robinson […]
Share:Published: Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | 2:22 PM ETBy: Shelly K. Schwartz,Special to CNBC.com If you’d added a few paintings to your portfolio over the last few years, instead of all those Lehman Brothers [LEHMQ 0.155 -0.0341 (-18.03%) ], AIG [AIG 36.00 -9.33 (-20.58%) ] and Citigroup [C 4.54 -0.46 (-9.2%) ] shares, your retirement […]
Share:By Rama LakshmiWashington Post Foreign Service NEW DELHI — In the heady celebration of the boom in India’s contemporary art market in recent years, an iconic artist has been conspicuous by his absence. Maqbool Fida Husain is hailed by many as India’s Picasso, and the 94-year-old artist’s paintings are coveted at international auctions, but galleries […]
Share:Source – CCTV The global financial crisis may have hit the art markets of New York and London, but according to experts in New Delhi, the Indian market is going strong. They’ve been attending the second exhibition of the India Art Summit. Even before the art summit opened formally, quite a few of the participating […]
