18 Jun 2013
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The 44th show of modern and contemporary art closed in Basel on Sunday 16 June. In a little under a week, over 65,000 visitors crowded the corridors of Art Basel to see creations by 4,000+ artists. This year, 304 galleries from 39 countries were selected from 1,000 applications. America topped the list...
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18 Jun 2013
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Extraordinary projects designed by young artists specially for the show by young artists and, of course, decorative arts and design works, were displayed for the first time in the new building conceived by Swiss architects Herzog and De Meuron. Thanks to the new buildings, which provide an extra 38,000...
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Damien Hirst has now created 1,365 spot paintings or that's what Science Ltd, one of the artist's companies, said when it announced last week that a catalogue raisonnée of the artist's paintings would be published spots paintings this autumn. Damien Hirst started painting spots, and dots, in 1986....
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Google Art Project, which allows people to visit hundreds of museums from around the world virtually, is having a facelift and eliminating the black background from the first version. The new version features a white background that sets of the works to better advantage. It's also faster thanks to new search...
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German police have dismantled a forgery network after something like 30 raids on apartments, warehouses and galleries around Wiesbaden on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June. A thousand works were seized and two men were arrested. The two are believed to head a gang of forgers thought to have forged close...
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Last Thursday, Sotheby's New York sold a 17th-Century Persian carpet for $33.7 million. This is both a record for a collectible carpet and a record for an Islamic art object. Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet, was put up for sale by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington to help tide recurring financial difficulties...
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Stephen Flavin, Dan Flavin's son and the executor of his estate, has decided to produce several works that his father had not realized before he passed away, possibly due to a lack of time or money. Prior to 2007 the Estate's position had been very clear. "At the time, I thought that limiting the number...
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The Toledo Museum of Art, whose home is the fourth biggest city in the State of Ohio, is launching a new kind of guided tour for babies. In recent years, institutions worldwide have developed all sorts of activities for young audiences, but so far no one had come up with a programme for babies. The tours...
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In August, English businessman Richard Reed will turn the United Kingdom into the biggest open-air art gallery in the world Art Everywhere, the non-profit association created by the co-founded of Innocent Drinks, will use thousands of advertising billboards to display works of art throughout the country....
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According to a study by Singaporean company Wealth-X, the wealthy no longer just see art as a source of distraction, but also as a form of investment. There are now 2,170 billionaires in the world. Almost all of them possess works of art that amount to an average value of $31 million, or 0.5% of their...
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News of the Art World / 26 November - 3 December 2012
