Global Art News
Photos of Paintings of Photos – Let’s Get All Meta “Marilyn Minter takes pictures. Then she paints pictures of the pictures she has taken. When she’s finished, she hires Tom Powel to take pictures of her pictures of her pictures. His pictures go into books and catalogs to catch the eye of buyers willing to pay $100,000 or more for a painting by Ms. Minter.” Wall Street Journal 01/14/11
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With Funding Cuts, UK Museums Urged To Display More Of Their Own Art – “Museums in London are being urged to get more of their collections out of storage and on display as funding cuts will mean fewer landmark exhibitions. A BBC Freedom of Information request found the British Museum had spent £86,280 in 2009 and 2010 keeping 99% of its collection in storage.” BBC 01/19/11
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The economic crunch notwithstanding, artists today are more prosperous than ever. For those who are successful, affluence can lead to generosity. Many artists donate works to worthy causes and institutions. Some support younger artists or serve on non-profit boards. Damien Hirst’s “Red” auction, in early 2008, co-hosted with Bono, raised an epic $43m for HIV/Aids relief in Africa—a signal event in the upsurge of philanthropy that accompanied the recent global boom. The ART Newspaper 10 Jan 11 (Features)
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Sotheby’s sells record $447 million of Asian art
HONG KONG, April 8 (Reuters) – Auction giant Sotheby’s sold $447 million worth of Asian art, wine, watches and jewellery in its Asian spring sales, in another bullish showing for the Chinese art market despite weak results for a monumental collection of Chinese ceramics.
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With Funding Cuts, UK Museums Urged To Display More Of Their Own Art .
We are so lucky here in London, not only to have some of the best and most complete collections of art and antiquities in the world, but that they should be offered to public view for free – though it seems a crying shame that so much of these collections will never been seen by the public.
True space & cost all play their part – though much today is driven by museums need to show the real ‘blockbusters’ in the collection to meet the demand of the visitor in the digital age – imagine the Louvre moving the mona lisa to make way for works of art by unknown artists languishing in their storage? Todays curators need to play their part in educating and exciting about their entire collection to keep the entirety relevant. Otherwise, why buy the works in the first place?
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Indeed AP, its now really upon us in the public forum to push away the old methods, the old practices of traditional galleries and museums; to provide open venues for folks from all walks of life the opportunity to view and enjoy art of all variety, not just the ones hand-picked by a small circle of ‘club friends’, but the many creative output of those artists who dedicated their lives to their craft, hoping that someday the world would also like to part-take of such moving works…