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Top auction houses to put art market rally to test
2/6/2012 3:50:08 AM
Reuters - Auction houses pinching themselves after bumper 2011 sales are now turning their attention to 2012, amid cautious optimism that the two-year bull run for top works of art will continue.
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A Minute With: Street artist Mark Jenkins
2/1/2012 9:03:51 AM
Reuters - American street artist Mark Jenkins's human sculptures staged in provocative poses in the middle of cities have proved so uncannily life-like they have sparked calls from passersby to the ambulance service or the police.
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Barter system part of appeal for Brussels art show
1/31/2012 9:50:02 AM
Reuters - In the history of currency, earplugs have, unsurprisingly, never been widely used or accepted. So when a man offered Belgian artist Delphine Boël 10,000 earplugs for her print "The Source of Identity" at the Truc Troc contemporary art exhibit in 2006, her reaction was, "God, he's crazy."
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Old Masters auctions total more than $120 million
1/27/2012 7:54:25 AM
Reuters - Old Masters paintings brought in more than $120 million at auction sales this week, with several works selling for more than $5 million each and records set for some artists.
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NY art dealer charged in $4M fraud
1/26/2012 6:28:07 PM
AP - A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the owner or giving him the proceeds.
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Irishman makes "billion-euro home" of shredded notes
1/25/2012 2:49:26 AM
Reuters - An unemployed Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros ($1.82 billion), a monument to the "madness" he says has been wrought on Ireland by the single currency, from a spectacular construction boom to a wrenching bust.
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Michigan Report Shows Arts and Culture Spending Yields High Return
1/24/2012 4:21:00 PM
ContributorNetwork - Creative State Michigan, an annual report by ArtServe, showed every dollar spent in Michigan on arts and culture repays the state back 50-fold. According to Michigan Radio, the purpose of the report was to demonstrate to lawmakers how profitable arts funding can be. Here are details about cultural-to-business connections in Michigan.
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Annie Leibovitz opens new art show at Smithsonian
1/24/2012 3:29:36 PM
AP - Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that marks a departure from her popular celebrity portraits.
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Mexico's new public art exhibit examines 'roots'
1/19/2012 2:55:44 PM
AP - They look like images from a science fiction movie, gigantic white roots invading emblematic spots around the Mexican capital, crawling across stone plazas and snaking from windows of colonial buildings.
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Met Museum spotlights American Indian art
1/17/2012 4:01:09 PM
Reuters - An exhibit of American Indian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art throws the connection between art and collector into unusually sharp relief.
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NYC folk museum celebrates optimistic future
1/17/2012 1:04:05 PM
AP - The American Folk Art Museum, long plagued by financial problems, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new exhibition, renewed optimism for its future and its collection intact.
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Chris Burden's new work: art imitating the future
1/14/2012 9:34:29 AM
AP - Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years.
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Duped in art fraud, NYC man then forged appraisals
1/13/2012 5:28:45 PM
AP - A part-time art dealer who unwittingly bought bogus Damien Hirst prints from a California fraudster created his own legal problems by doctoring appraisals as he resold them, authorities and his lawyer said.
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Haitian art since earthquake on display in Miami
1/11/2012 10:28:08 AM
AP - The metal figures standing like sentinels in the middle of an exhibit of contemporary Haitian art are created from a mishmash of scrap metal and found objects: nails, marbles, old shoes, bed springs, tire treads, hub caps, pieces of fans and other discards.
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Picasso, Mondrian paintings stolen in Greece
1/9/2012 7:43:30 AM
AP - Thieves carried out a well-organized, pre-dawn heist at Greece's biggest state art museum on Monday, taking two oil paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, police said.
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