At the Frieze private view on Wednesday one big question kept being asked -- how were sales going?
Anthony Papa | Posted 08.21.2008 | Entertainment
One night while sitting in my 6 x 9 cell I picked up a mirror and saw the face of individual that was to spend the most productive years of his life in a cage. I picked up a paintbrush, put color to canvas and painted the image I saw.
Financial Times | Deborah Brewster | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business
The big June art sales, which start Tuesday in London, are expected by the auction houses to break more records as collectors from commodities-rich re...
Reuters | Jeremy Lovell | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business
Rather like the premature reports of the death of Mark Twain, forecasts of the collapse of the art market as a result of the global credit crunch appe...
Bloomberg | Linda Sandler | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business
Christie's International, the auction house owned by French billionaire Francois Pinault, is gearing up for its New York sales in May with a Mark Roth...
AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 12.25.2007 | Business
Art is hot. Despite turmoil in the financial markets, there are no signs that the art market is softening. The fall auction season in New York saw rob...
Salon.com | Edward M. Gomez | Posted 12.09.2007 | Business
Thanks, in large part, to George W. Bush's no-end-in-sight war spending, the once-mighty dollar is tanking, a development that recently prompted a se...
AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business
A rare enamel-and-gold Faberge egg that had been in the Rothschild banking family for more than a century sold for record $18.5 million at auction Wed...
Peter Clothier | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living
Today's collectors consume art with insatiable and competitive greed. They can't wait to write their seven-figure checks for those the art market has blessed.
Peter Clothier | Posted 11.14.2007 | Living
Size does not necessarily make a painting powerful, nor does the imposing gallery space necessarily assure the quality of the art on its walls.
Guardian | Ed Pilkington | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business
Reluctant actor, master of self-deprecation, tousle-haired English fop. Tonight a new description must be added to the list of Hugh Grant's qualities:...
AP | Posted 11.07.2007 | Business
An Henri Matisse painting was auctioned at Christie's for $33.6 million, a record for the artist, during a sale devoted to Impressionist and modern ar...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
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Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Charlotte Appleyard | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business