Frieze Art Fair: The Agony and the Ecstasy
At the Frieze private view on Wednesday one big question kept being asked -- how were sales going?
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
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Reuters | Jeremy Lovell | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business
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Bloomberg | Linda Sandler | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business
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AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 12.25.2007 | Business
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Salon.com | Edward M. Gomez | Posted 12.09.2007 | Business
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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
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AP | Posted 11.07.2007 | Business
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Charlotte Appleyard | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business