In a city that adores brand names, it is perhaps no surprise that the Art Basel franchise is going down well. With supporters including Ruinart champagne, Davidoff cigars and Audemars Piguet watches, the fair has aligned itself with the trappings of…
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Massimiliano Gioni’s exhibition, “The Encyclopaedic Palace”, will present an eclectic mix of work both by established and self taught artists. For Gioni, this show is “a way of reminding us that the artists that sell at auction aren’t the only…
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The Tate has acquired John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, from the heirs of Lord Ashton of Hyde for £23.1m, considerably less than the £40m it may have cost on the open market. The painting is now due to go on view at…
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Will the shrinking size of US apartments drive more people to visit museums? “If you aren’t hanging out with friends at home, you need somewhere else to go,” said Elizabeth Merritt, the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Museums, at a…
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Christie’s broke the record for the highest amount raised in one auction last week when its contemporary and Modern sale in New York raised $ 495m. Big-ticket items included Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat, 1963, (detail, below) bought for…
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The German art shipper who was jailed for 100 days by Chinese authorities on suspicion of art smuggling has left China, although the legal proceedings against him are still ongoing. Nils Jennrich, the Beijing-based general manager of Integrated Fine…
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As the Art Basel Hong Kong fair opens its doors to invited guests, there is no doubt that, culturally speaking, the Hong Kong we see today is very different from the place that fair impresario Tim Etchells visited, for the first time, in 2006….
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One of the oldest letters sent to the New World, dated 15 October 1522, has been found in the State Archive in Naples after disappearing for more than a century. The document carries the “Yo el Rey” signature belonging to Charles V, the head of the…
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The artist Khaled Jarrar, a former captain of the Palestinian Presidential Guard, may well make waves with a series of works due to go on show at the Ayyam Gallery in London next month (20 June-3 August). Jarrar will construct a large concrete wall,…
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The online auction house, Paddle8, is acquiring an option to purchase a stake in Artnet, the online auction data provider and auctioneer. The stake, approximately 3%, currently belongs to Redline Capital Management, which attempted a takeover of…
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