Posted on November 21, 2008 by artforprofits
Credit Suisse Charity Art Auction – artmarketblog.com
Credit Suisse in conjunction with Phillips De Pury are holding a charity auction to benefit Room to Read who raise funds educate children in the developing world who otherwise wouldn’t have access to education. The works available for auction have been touring as an exhibition where people have [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2008 by artforprofits
Art Sydney 08 Art Fair Report – artmarketblog.com
A few weeks ago I attended the Art Sydney 08 Art Fair (http://www.artsydney08.com.au) which is Sydney’s largest annual art fair and is produced by Single Market Events who produced the event in association with International Concert Attractions (ICA) and the Affordable Art Fairs which take place annually in [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by artforprofits
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction – artmarketblog.com
Sale Information:
Sale 2048
post-war and contemporary art evening sale
12 November 2008
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
Lot Description:
Lot 10
Richard Prince (b. 1949)
Lake Resort Nurse
signed, titled and dated ‘Richard Prince 2003 LAKE RESORT NURSE’ (on the stretcher)
ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas
70 x 48 in. (177.8 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 2003.
Estimate: US$5,000,000 – [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 by artforprofits
Winners of Abraaj Capital Art Prize Announced – artmarketblog.com
Dubai, London – The selection committee of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize today announced the three recipient curator/artist teams of its first competition: Cristiana Perrella & Kutluğ Ataman; Carol Solomon & Zoulikha Boubadellah; and Leyla Fakhr & Nazgol Ansarinia. Their projects, which are being created this very [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2008 by artforprofits
Art Auction Estimates Mean Little – artmarketblog.com
While looking through the real-estate section of a newspaper the other day I realised how much more useful those listings were that included information (date and price) regarding the last time the property was traded as well as the estimated price. There is no doubt that it is in [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by artforprofits
Herb Williams’ Obama Portrait Video – artmarketblog.com
“Obama Portrait In Thousands of Crayons”
This is a short story on Nashville artist Herb Williams, who spent over four months making a large 3-d portrait of Barack Obama out of thousands of crayons. You can view more of the crayon sculptures at www.herbwilliamsart.com.
See video here:
http://www.wsmv.com/video/17916594/index.html
Please also follow this link [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by artforprofits
Free Shepard Fairey Obama Victory Stickers – artmarketblog.com
Free sticker celebrating Obama victory by Shepard Fairey available here:
http://pol.moveon.org/shepstickers/?id=-3768774-adT5Utx
From moveon.org website:
These commemorative stickers mark Barack Obama’s historic victory and were designed by groundbreaking artist Shepard Fairey—the same artist who designed the world-famous, iconic “Hope” poster for Obama.
You can get one sticker for free. For a $3+ donation, [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2008 by artforprofits
Future50 UK Contemporary Artists at Axis – artmarketblog.com
A fantastic opportunity to purchase work by some of Britain’s hottest emerging artists called Future50 has recently been launched by Axis, the online contemporary art portal. According to the website, Axis (http://www.axisweb.org) is the best online resource for information about contemporary art. The website features [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by artforprofits
Trophy Sellers Endanger Art Auction Results – artmarketblog.com
One of the most dangerous scenarios for the art market is the existence of large numbers of extremely wealthy people who have no idea about the value of art yet have excessive amounts of money to spend on expensive trophies and status symbols. Sound familiar?. While [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2008 by artforprofits
Manipulated Art Auction Results Affect Perception of Art Market- artmarketblog.com
Why is it that we continue to use auction results as an indicator of the health of the art market when they are obviously not an accurate representation of the health of the art market and do not reflect the sentiment and actions of buyers and [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by artforprofits
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Posted on October 26, 2008 by artforprofits
Art Market Reality Check – artmarketblog.com
Some important things to keep in mind about art investment and the art market:
-If you are concerned about your works of art losing value because of the current economic crisis you have either bought the wrong works, have a bad art investment strategy or own an entire collection of works [...]
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