This year's gala honored Andy Goldsworthy, whose nature-based artwork graces San Francisco's Presidio and greets visitors at the de Young's entrance, along with philanthropists Cynthia Fry Gunn and John Gunn.
"The Fine Art and Design sale brings together an exciting selection of works that reflect some of the most enduring ideas in modern and contemporary art. You'll find pieces that explore the human form as a space for storytelling and identity, alongside works that offer nuanced perspectives on sexuality."
"I love the paintings of Enrico Donati as I love a night in May." This sentiment from André Breton reflects the deep admiration he had for Donati's work, emphasizing the emotional connection to the art.
If you want to sell Basquiats and Birkins to the very rich, it might help to have a location on Billionaires' Row. It might also help if that location had a certain cultural cachet. Bonhams, the international auction house, managed to find such a spread in a 42,000-square-foot space that is knitted from the lower floors of an odd collection of prewar buildings and razed lots, with pops of old brick walls and limestone interrupting expanses of sheer, contemporary glass.
He was crazy for the game and everything to do with it. He travelled to five continents to buy up artefacts he had fallen in love with, once to South America for a book he told us children was as expensive as a house.
What drew me to [them] was clear: an iconic brand with a genuine commitment to the independent advisors across Canada who have chosen to build their businesses here and to the clients they serve. That kind of alignment is rare. Having spent my career building companies at the intersection of real estate and fintech, I've seen what's possible when talented entrepreneurs are supported by the right platform, tools and leadership.
The record price in the category, $13.8m- paid last year at Christies' in New York for a painting by the Mumbai-based Modernist M.F. Husain-is more than three times what it was 20 years ago.
Kamrooz Aram is everywhere this year, from Mumbai Art Week to the Whitney Biennial, and critic Aruna D'Souza is grateful. She pens a beautiful meditation on his work, reading his abstract paintings as not simply a denunciation of Western modernism nor a reassertion of Islamic visual motifs, but something else entirely - something gestural, exuberant, riotous, and incomparably his own.
Hong Kong's particular and seductive Metabolist city planning is an ode to consumption as a great totalizer of culture, and to contemporary art as merely a niche commodity form among many others.
Art Collaboration Kyoto will have a new leadership structure starting April 1: a seven-person committee, with each member is a director with a different focus, like gallery relations, VIP relations, or education. Yukako Yamashita, the fair's director since 2022, is stepping down this month to become chairperson of ACK Ambassadors, which the fair bills as 'an intimate, global network of established and next-generation collectors and cultural leaders.'
Stephen Friedman was overdue filing when he went into liquidation on 2 February, closing his London gallery immediately (his New York venue shuttered around the same date). At the time of writing, invoices remain unpaid and artists unable to retrieve works from storage companies. In a statement, Friedman says 'all matters are now subject to the administrator's consideration'.
For some eminently wealthy individuals, amassing a first-class art collection is an ideal way to spend their money. And while some high-profile art collectors end up donating their collections to museums or other cultural institutions, others take a different approach, reselling their art after a certain amount of time. Which brings us to this week, when billionaire David I. Koch's collection of Western art hit the auction block at Christie's, setting a number of records in the process.
The snippet carries the phrase "Fathers of the Senate!" which is nowhere found in surviving Washington documents. The expression is borrowed from ancient Roman Senate-specifically the Latin patres conscripti , or "Conscript Fathers"-and quite possibly wasn't the patrician tone Washington intended to set for a young republic. It is unknown why or how it was used in this case as the manuscript from which the fragment was cut is long lost.
The terms are often conflated to portray an air of desirability and a limited opportunity. Rarity generally refers to the unusualness of an object—something that is infrequently encountered or 'rare to market.' With modern works from the past century, rarity can stem from limited original production, or the fact that many examples are held in museum or institutional collections, reducing their availability in the marketplace.
Art SG wrapped its fourth edition on Sunday, reporting 43,000 visitors during its four-day run, up from last year's 41,000. The S$250,000 ($197,000) SAM Art SG Fund, backed by patrons Carmen Yixuan Li, Pure Yichun Chen, and Pierre Lorinet, acquired works by Mona Hatoum (from White Cube) and Lotus L. Kang (from Commonwealth and Council) for Singapore Art Museum 's permanent collection. Some dealers said they made satisfactory sales, mostly for five or six digits.
The two works offered at the house's 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on March 5 include Schober (Haybarn) from 1984, one of the artist's largest landscape photo-paintings, with presale expectations in the region of £6 million ($8.2 million). Formerly in in the collection of New York real estate developers Emily and Jerry Spiegel, who acquired the work from dealer Marian Goodman in 1985, the canvas sold at Christie's New York in 2017 for $6.97 million to the current owner.
Major works from media mogul S.I. Newhouse's estate are poised to smash records at Christie's in May. The tranche of 35 to 40 works includes paintings by Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Jasper Johns, as well as a Constantin Brancusi sculpture, and is valued it at a whopping $450 million.
