Bruce Nauman “My Name as Thought it Were Written on the Surface of the Moon” 1968 via Guardian

For its newest exhibition, the Barbican Centre in London will reopen its art gallery as the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art. Fictional martian curators picked works by 115 earthling artists including Joseph Beuys, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Bruce Nauman and Andy Warhol.

Barbican reopens as Martian Museum [Times Online]
Martian Museum of Art Exhibition [Guardian]
Martian Museum Art [Independent]
Barbican Website [Barbican]
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Pieces by artist Robert Rauschenberg via USA today

Artist Rauschenberg sues over sale of discarded art [USA Today]
World’s largest art fair opens March 7th in Dutch city of Maastricht [Bloomberg]
Chinese art claims new presence in volatile market [The New York Sun]
Iranian artist hits new record in million-dollar sale at Dubai auction [Bloomberg]
Jeffrey Weiss ends brief stint as Dia Art Foundation Director [The New York Times]

Marquise Casati by Man Ray via Tate Modern

The exhibition “Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia”, featuring the three artists often cited as responsible for launching Dadaism through their exhibitions in New York, is on view at the Tate Modern until May 26. 

Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray at the Tate Modern [Times Online]
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia at Tate Modern [24 hour Museum]
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia’s show at the Tate Modern [AFP]
Tate Modern [Tate Modern]

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“The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil” via Telegraph.co.uk

Follow up: Monet’s “The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil” sells for £20 million at Christie’s [Telegraph.co.uk]
Update: Make your own movie at Gondry Deitch Projects [New York Times]
Tracey Emin spends $8 million to save an art district in London [ArtForum via the Guardian.com]
Whitney Biennial’s busy schedule, starting next Thursday [New York Times]
A good overall summary on artist Paul McCarthy [LATimes via C-Monster]
Judge Denies Salander’s bankruptcy [Bloomberg]
Michael Ovitz may buy the Chelsea Art Museum Building for growing art collection [New York Post]

Leonardo’s Annunciation via the Art Newspaper

For the first year, a survey has been made regarding the attendance figures in the museums for the year 2007. Unsurprisingly, the Musée the Louvre comes first with 8.3 million visitors in 2007. Of note is that the Tokyo National Museum had the highest daily average last year (regarding “Leonardo da Vinci’s Annunciation”) for any exhibition since the survey began in 1997.

After the jump, the Top 10 museums attendance in 2007… (more…)

“Chuck Close” self-portrait via The State Hermitage Museum

From February 29 until April 13, the State Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg presents the Chuck Close’s most recent series of portraits, created between 2005 and 2007. The show has been organized jointly with the London-based gallery White Cube.

Chuck Close at the Hermitage Museum [Bloomberg]
Chuck Close: seven portraits [State Hermitage Museum]
Chuck Close [White Cube]

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Warhol’s Private Drawings via Artfacts

From February 28th to March 29th the Paul Kasmin Gallery is presenting Andy Warhol’s new exhibition “Strange World” a collection of Andy Warhol’s blotted-line drawings created between 1948 and 1959.

Warhol Exhibition [Paul Kasmin Gallery]
Andy Warhol’s exhibition [Warhol Foundation]
Andy Warhol’s drawings at Paul Kasmin Gallery [Daily News]

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Sotheby’s via news BBC, Phillips de Pury via Iron Arts, Christie’s via Drexel Daily Digest

This month has been monumentally beneficial to the Contemporary Art Market. Sales rose over 50% within the past three weeks. Over the last month Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury hosted a series of auctions in London; each producing record breaking results for at least one of their sales.

Auction House’s Revenue Jumps Dramatically [bloomberg]
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“Beetle” breaks Russian Contemporary record [bloomberg]
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Phillips de Pury Children with AIDs Benefit Auction [ArtInfo]
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Breakdown of top February sales [Art Martket Watch]
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Review of February Auctions [NY Sun]
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GO SEE: Sotheby’s contemporary art sale, London, February 27th [ArtObserved]
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Phillips sets 15 artists records in contemporary sale [ArtInfo]
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Fontana, Richter and Meire break records [ArtInfo]
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Contemporary Russian Art Auction, Phillips de Pury, February 28, London [ArtObserved]
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Warhol’s “Three Self Portraits” fetches £11.5 million [CBC]
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Competition between Sotheby’s & Christie’s Impressionist & Modern auctions [NY Sun]
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Sotheby’s Sets Auction Record with $39.7 million Francis Bacon Nude [ArtObserved]
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Sotheby’s Accomplishes Record Quarterly Profits [ArtObserved]

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