Newslinks for Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
November 11th, 2008
Richard Serra via Time
The Economist is long on Richard Serra: “slow-burning Mr Serra will be one of the artists whose work will continue to shine long after he is gone” [TheEconomist]
The defensive financial strategies art auction houses take during a market downturn [The Art Newspaper] and in related, financing for fine art is correspondingly receding [Portfolio]
A look inside the highly specialized art storage business [Financial Times]
The Tate Modern may have accidentally hung 2 Rothko’s sideways [TimesUK]
The Pollock in question via terisfind.com
Highly controversial supposed Jackson Pollock drip painting is for sale for $50 million in Toronto [CBC]
London’s Colony Room, favored bar of Lucian Freud and Damien Hirst, may close [TimesUK]
50 to 75 Modern and Contemporary German works of art including some by Rosemarie Trockel, Georg Baselitz and Candida Höfer donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard [Artdaily]
Yvonne Force Villareal, sets up an APFlab (“Art Production Fund”) on Wooster street in Soho, New York [NYTimes]
