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Art Market Sails Over Turmoil

Weak dollar, overseas buyers help keep prices high

Associated Press Associated Press Dec 26, 07 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - US financial markets were in chaos this year, but the art market certainly wasn't. The expanding ranks of the super-rich, the weak dollar, and emerging connoisseurs from Russia, China, India, and the Middle East kept auction houses in fine form, the AP reports, with postwar and contemporary works—including a $71 million Warhol—leading the way. More »

More about:  US economy • art • auction • Sotheby's • art auction • weak dollar • Christie's • Andy Warhol • Matisse

Muschamp, Critic's Critic, Dies at 59

Wrote during 'surge
of exuberance' in architecture

New York Times New York Times Oct 3, 07 6:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Architecture critic Herbert Muschamp died of lung cancer last night at age 59, the New York Times reports. Muschamp wrote for the Times during a “surge of exuberance” in architecture, and his personal style grabbed readers for more than a decade. Said the Times editor who hired him, “Herbert’s criticism was full of passion—too much for some readers.” More »

More about:  obituary • architecture • World Trade Center • Andy Warhol • Frank Gehry • Guggenheim Bilbao • Daniel Libeskind

Iran Guards Hidden Art Trove

Top modern art collection kept in the basement of Iranian museum

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 07 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A basement chock full of Picassos, Monets, and almost every important Western Modernist painter—surely the Louvre? Au contraire, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. That’s where the LA Times ’ Kim Murphy found a treasure trove of painstakingly cared-for paintings that have seen the light of day but once since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. More »

More about:  Iran • art • painting • Tehran • art museum • Andy Warhol • Monet • Picasso • Jackson Pollock

$72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record

Auction madness continues
as contemporary-art market sizzles

BBC BBC May 17, 07 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Andy Warhol painting sold for $71.7 million last night at Christie's, more than quadrupling the previous record price for a work by the pop artist. The price for "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," part of Warhol's "Death and Disaster" series, more than doubled the presale estimate and overshadowed the $28 million sale of "Lemon Marilyn." More »

More about:  art • painting • art market • Sotheby's • art auction • Christie's • contemporary art • Andy Warhol • pop art • Mark Rothko

Rothko Fetches $73 Million

Record price for seminal modern work marks trend in art purchases

Daily Telegraph (UK) Daily Telegraph (UK) May 16, 07 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sotheby’s sold a Mark Rothko painting last night for $72.84 million, a record price for a piece of art created after World War II and a signal of a new boom in the market. Seller David Rockefeller bought the 7-foot-tall "White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender)," an early example of the painter's signature blocks of color, for $8,500 in 1960. More »

More about:  art • painting • globalization • art market • Sotheby's • Christie's • contemporary art • Damien Hirst • Andy Warhol • Mark Rothko • Jasper Johns

I Bought Andy Warhol  

Pop artist's mass-produced work climbs in price, prestige worldwide

Times (UK) Times (UK) Apr 30, 07 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hipsters have known it forever, and buyers are catching on: Andy Warhol is the hottest artist around. The Times reports that his sales, including a projected $35 million for a painting at Christie’s next month, are second only to Picasso's. One expert calls Warhol "the most important international artist of the 20th century." More »

More about:  art • auction • painting • art market • artist • Andy Warhol • pop art

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