Newslinks for Tuesday, January 27, 2009
January 27th, 2009
The late Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge
A look into Christie’s coming Yves Saint Laurent sale, the largest single owner sale in auction history [Economist]
An interview with artist Jenny Holzer [Art21]
A review of Denis Dutton’s book “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution” which attempts to define art within a socio-biological context [NYObserver]
Bernd Runge, now at the helm at Phillips de Pury via Tattler.ru
Ex-VP of Conde Nast (and ex-East German Stasi secret police spy) appointed by newly Russian owned Phillips Auction house as CEO and in related, Ex-British Petroleum CEO to run the Tate museum group [Bloomberg]
Sotheby’s discontinues the practice of allowing art to be bought at auction with credit cards [NYMag]
Guernica – By Pablo Picaso via Pdx.edu
Picasso’s Guernica to adorn Whitchapel Gallery reopening in April [ArtNewspaper]
Christie’s combines 19th Century European Art, Old-Master Paintings, Old Master Drawings and British Drawings into one department to create an umbrella category for art between 1300 and 1900 [NYTimes]
The complicated process behind creating and selling forged Russian artwork [Forbes]
January 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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January 30th, 2009 at 8:51 am
In re-acquaintance of Picasso’s Guernica, one realizes how much we are still learning from him.
Thomas Gebr
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