You may have heard that the artist Peter Doig is currently involved in a lawsuit with a Canadian parole officer who claims that Mr. Doig sold him a painting in 1975, while incarcerated at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre as a teenager. The Independent has just posted an image of the work in question. Read More
Phillips ended this week’s contemporary art auctions with a modest sale that took in $78.6 million, with no major records set. An Andy Warhol quadruple portrait of Marilyn Monroe against an orange backdrop led the evening’s lots by a good margin, selling for $38.2 million. Read More
Every second counts during Frieze Week, and so last Wednesday, the evening before the fair opened, you could see people getting visibly nervous in front of David Zwirner as 6 p.m. came and went, and the doors for Jeff Koons’s first show with the dealer did not open. There was a lot to see that night: Rob Pruitt’s psychedelic installation at the old Passerby space, with its promises of ice cream and T-shirts, and Tobias Rehberger’s bar at the Hôtel Americano and—Mr. Zwirner finally swung open the door to one gallery at a few minutes before 7, gamely holding it for the masses as art handlers continued to work on the installation inside. Read More
Christie’s broke auction records this evening with a contemporary art sale that brought in $495 million for the house across 70 lots, the highest total ever earned in a single art auction.
The auction saw seven lots over $20 million with buyer’s premium, among them those that led to new auction records for Jackson Pollock, Read More
I’d really rather not promote this event since Red Bull is, first of all, pretty bad for you and additionally one of those frustrating pseudo-edgy corporate entities like Vice magazine that most people understand to be dumb but probably still generates positive thoughts in the empty head of some dude who lives in Williamsburg. (What’s Read More
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A painting by Gerhard Richter once again became the most expensive work of art by a living artist ever sold at auction at tonight’s contemporary art auction at Sotheby’s. Mr. Richter had already been the world’s most expensive artist by that measure with a work that sold in October 2012 for $34 million, but tonight’s Read More
A few weeks ago, Tracey Emin crossed her motorcycle boots and leaned forward in her chair between two Doric columns at the New York Academy of Art in Tribeca, bracing herself, it seemed, so that she was better positioned to launch stories from lips that are always somewhere between a pout and a snarl. Read More
The artist Darren Bader (b. 1978) has won the Calder Foundations’s 2013 Calder Prize, presented to “contemporary artists who have completed exemplary work early in their careers and whose work can be interpreted as a continuation of Alexander Calder’s legacy.” Read More
Marion Maneker warns that last night’s Leo auction “had all the hallmarks of a market driven by anything but fundamentals.” [Art Market Monitor]
Here’s a party report from the Brant Foundation’s Sunday event. [WSJ] Read More
