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Contemporary Art Market Statistics
Contemporary art market statistics. Basquiat was already the most sought-after and most expensive contemporary artist in 2000. Since then, only the level of prices has changed. Source: Artguide
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Sotheby's to pay New York State $6.25 million to settle tax fraud suit brought by Attorney General Letitia James
Sotheby's will pay New York State $6.25 million to settle a tax fraud suit brought by Attorney General Letitia James. The suit accused the auction house of helping its clients to evade taxes. Attorney General James alleges that the investigation uncovered, among other things, a scheme that
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Museum AZ to show 70 works by Vladimir Yakovlev for the artist's 90th anniversary
On 27 November the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseyka will open the exhibition "And in the Steppe the Wind Is Raging…", marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the artist Vladimir Yakovlev (1934–1998) The exhibition will include 70 works from the collections of
Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Interview on the isolation of the Russian art market and exchange of museum collections abroad
Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview. — Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · Art · Saint Petersburg
Huge cartoons with the composition for the painting of the drum of the main dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral
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The Socialite's Children
The Socialite's Children. Karl Bryullov
Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Karl Bryullov retrospective at the Russian Museum with 160 paintings and 250 watercolours
The Ascent. Perhaps this is the chief thought that comes to mind on viewing the grand retrospective of Karl Bryullov at the Russian Museum. An ascent at once of you, the viewer, and of Russian art itself, up to the level of Bryullov, who became our first great painter to
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Brullov painting from a Brussels church confiscated from collector Pevzner
The Apparition of "Christ in the Tomb" at the Russian Museum, at the "Great Karl" Exhibition. I had not expected to see this painting at the grand jubilee exhibition of Karl Bryullov. The previously unknown canvas by Bryullov, which has now featured in legal proceedings for
Art · Observations
Salvador Dalí on how one should regard a mistake
A mistake is a gift from God. Do not try to correct it, then. On the contrary, try to understand it, to be imbued with its meaning, to grow used to it. And liberation will come. Salvador Dalí
NB! · The East · Art · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has released his own line of footwear
Contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami now makes footwear. Well, evidently the world has been feeling a certain shortage of rubber goods. Owners of Crocs, accordingly, should hasten to change their shoes.
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Rome
Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese
Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese. In the end the sculpture did not please the king, and he sent it off to the back of the park
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