Tag: contemporary art

  • Crush, Pop, Bomb, Fall: All Used to Describe Results from Sotheby’s Hong Kong Art Auction

    Credit Crunch Crushes Art AuctionBBC Pop Goes the Bubble in Chinese & Indian ArtBusinessweek Masriadi Breaks Post-Lehman Stupor at Hong Kong Art AuctionBloomberg Sotheby’s Chinese, Indian Art Sale Bombs in Wake of Wall Street CrisisBusinessweekSotheby’s Shares Fall Amid Concern About Art MarketBloomberg Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • Damien Hirst at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

    Opening Friday, October 10! Above: Damien Hirst, Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, 2007 (detail), glass, steel, bullock, arrows, crossbow bolts and formaldehyde solution, 126 3/4 x 61 1/4 x 61 1/4 inches. Courtesy of the Goss-Michael Foundation.Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates. © Damien Hirst. MCA DENVER presents Damien Hirst’s signature works, including Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain,…

  • Middle Tier of British art market go unsold at auction

    Hirst may be a big seller, but Banksy and Kate Moss aren’t as big a draw at another recent auction. Read about it here. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • Being an artist is not an easy life

    A great article in the London Times here, explores how leading British artists got started. Grayson PerryGrayson’s tip Hone your personal skills. You can have all the technique and all the originality in the world, but if you’re not much fun to be around, nobody will want to work with you. Go to openings if…

  • Stick to what you do best. Contemporary art isn’t for everyone

    A great post by Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes. Read it here. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • Does the economic turmoil hurt the art market?

    Bloomberg is reporting that sales are down at Chelsea Galleries. Cristina Delgado, a New York-based art adviser is quoted in the article as saying: “My clients are sitting tight and they want to see what happens in the next six to eight months.” Then she adds: “The prices for young and emerging artists have to…

  • PBS’ Art 21 too risky for public school?

    “The foolish insistence of Dallas Independent School District to allow its teachers to teach this pornographic material and leftist drivel is a textbook example of a school district out of control, and an administration that should NO LONGER be funded by taxpayers.” So quotes a writer from Dallas in response to an article Sept. 22,…

  • Exhibit Showcases Female Memories, Durango Herald, Sept. 19, 2008

    “The Insistence of Memory,” an exhibit at the Durango Arts Center’s Local Expressions gallery, is a show featuring “five women, five forms, five perspectives not to be forgotten,” according to the news release, also suggesting the show was “fresh.” “Fresh” and “memorable” for Durango, or the greater art world? “The Insistence of Memory” is a…

  • Damien Hirst, the Contemporary Art Market, and the Critics

    Last week, on September 15 & 16, 2008, the same days the U.S. stock markets tanked and the world economy appeared to be on the brink, Damien Hirst did something revolutionary. He and Sotheby’s sold $200m of his “art.” I put that term in quotes, because critic Robert Hughes weighed in on the “tacky” and…

  • Cult of Color: Call to Color–A Collaboration at Arthouse at the Jones Center

    While I was in Austin, Texas in April to hear Katy Siegel and Wade Saunders talk to MFA students and the public at UT Austin, I stopped in to see the exhibition at Arthouse. Cult of Color:Call to Color–Notes on a Collaboration featured the work of visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, choreographer Stephen Mills and…