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Fontana by Numbers in Christie's Magazine Fall 2012

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:59:00 +0200

Invitations to Art.sy, the Pandora of Art

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:52:37 +0200

According to its webste:

Art.sy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an internet connection. It is a free platform where you can discover, learn about, or collect art. Art.sy features works from leading galleries, museums, private collections, and artist estates.

Art.sy is powered by The Art Genome Project®, an ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art. Art.sy evaluates artworks across 800+ characteristics (we call them genes)—such as art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities—to create a powerful search experience that reflects the multifaceted aspects of works of art.

ARTINIblog readers have early access to Art.sy by clicking here:

http://art.sy/5svytm

Enjoy!

Women in the Art World Discuss the Work/Family Balance in the Industry

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:12:04 +0200

Women in the Art World Discuss the Work/Family Balance in the Industry

Artinfo's 30 Influential People Under 30 in the Art World

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:40:55 +0200

Artinfo's 30 Influential People Under 30 in the Art World

Nine Quotes about Art as an Investment

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:54:30 +0200

Nine Quotes about Art as an Investment

Arnaldo Pomodoro completes a wine cellar for the Lunelli...

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:07:00 +0200

Arnaldo Pomodoro completes a wine cellar for the Lunelli family

tgphipps:

Arnaldo Pomodoro | The Carapace

Chinese Dominate Art Market

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:01:00 +0200

From Statista’s China page, http://www.statista.com/markets/19/topic/203/china/:

Jerry Saltz's Rules for Success in the Art World

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:06:44 +0200

Jerry Saltz's Rules for Success in the Art World

More Uncertainty for MAXXI

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:01:57 +0200

More Uncertainty for MAXXI

"Few people can pinpoint the moment when an artist becomes iconic in the way of Pablo Picasso or Andy..."

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:01:04 +0200

“Few people can pinpoint the moment when an artist becomes iconic in the way of Pablo Picasso or Andy Warhol, but right now the art world is trying to anoint Mr. Richter. Last year, his works sold at auction for a total of $200 million, according to auction tracker Artnet—more than any other living artist and topping last year’s auction totals for Claude Monet, Alberto Giacometti and Mark Rothko combined.”

- Gerhard Richter: The Top-Selling Living Artist - WSJ.com (via sylviac)

Want to get ahead in the art world? Know these 100 people

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:41:58 +0200

Want to get ahead in the art world? Know these 100 people

mark-making: The Art Market> BBC - The Mona Lisa Curse (by...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:01:25 +0200

mark-making:

The Art Market> BBC - The Mona Lisa Curse (by trinity01ifya)

Artnewspaper: Maxxi to be controlled by commissioner appointed by Italian government

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:16:23 +0200

Artnewspaper: Maxxi to be controlled by commissioner appointed by Italian government

A 60 Minutes report on the contemporary art scene which aired...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:53:00 +0200

A 60 Minutes report on the contemporary art scene which aired April 1

paperimages:

“Even if contemporary art seems alien or odd to you, consider this: the market for this art has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s list of 500 common stocks since 2003. Morley Safer is back on the art beat, attending the most important contemporary art fair in the world: Art Basel Miami Beach. It’s a matter of taste whether the paintings, sculpture, and what-nots are good art, but as a good investment, art is indisputably hotter than ever. In fact, elite art buyers – many from Russia and China — are so ravenous that the contemporary art market raked in over $5 billion in auction sales last year.” (via)

Streetart.com's MiArt Milan Art Fair 2012 Recap

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:15:49 +0200

Streetart.com's MiArt Milan Art Fair 2012 Recap:

streetartcom:

So the Fair is over and we’d like to share our impressions with you. MiArt 2012, the art fair of Milan just celebrated its 17th edition. We spent a lot of time there chatting, exchanging contacts and starring at the sushi fridge where for the “cheap” price of € 29,00 you could taste a small tray of bland sushi. Good things and bad things as always. MiArt’s artistic director Frank Boehm underlined this year the continuity of the contemporary and the modern, which are purposefully brought together within the same time frame in a single, completely renovated exhibition venue. Ok, these are honest ambitions but it is clear to everyone: to renovate you should show bravery and you have to select valuable artists and galleries. Yes, “Laurina Paperina” got her stand there, impressive.

Then we have to admit we appreciated a lot of great artworks especially the ones from the Italian masters such as Arnaldo Pomodoro, Alighiero Boetti,Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano. It’s unusual to get the chance to admire such splendour just few step one from another in a commercial fair. We made a selection of the works we loved and we hope you will too. These works alone were just worth the visit.

The fair was heavily overbalanced on succesfull italian “dead” artists, galleries, collectors. Maybe it was because the economic crisis that afflicts italian economy: the scared collectors prefer to invest in sure values. This construction make sence but please Mr Boehm don’t tell us about an opportunity to discover fresh contemporary art. That’s all about Italy in this period: just get here for the gorgeous traditions, like Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan or a palatable cotoletta alla milanese, that we had for lunch just out of the constipated wanna be international sushi-Fair. The international interest of the Fair was consigned to few big names represented by their most political-oriented works, as for the comunist prints by Andy Worhol and the bright-disordering pics of cuban photographer Alberto Korda.

Street art and post-graffiti wasn’t there. Exception made by two gallerists, nervously waving last issue of Juxtapoz magazine as a bible, representing artists coming up from street art experiences who took the negative vibe to a brand-new level with their sad illustrations and installations. We had not the strength of will to take pictures nor to write down their names.

We feel to promote a gallery, maybe one of the few there that represents a real new italian presence acting in the contemporary art market. It is AIKE-DELLARCO with two active galleries one in Palermo, Sicily and the other in Shanghai that we use to visit when we come to paint graffiti with friends in Moganshan art district. Their research is interesting and the proof has been that their artist Lee Kit, with his painting you see below, won the “Rotary Club Milano Brera prize for contemporary art and young artists”, which involves the purchase of works by artists under the age of 35 which will subsequently be donated, along with the collection that will have been built up by then, to the Milan Contemporary Art Museum which is currently being set up.

So these were our impressions and hope the critics we are moving will be helpfull on next visit to MiArt 2013 to discover some groundbreaking galleries dealing with the international contemporary art market and attracting international audience and capitals. Here you find our selected gallery but you can experience a brand-new way to comb through the event with hundreds of Instagram pics tagged by visitors adding the #miart12 hashtag. Enjoy.

Answers: Fontana, Manzoni, and Kounellis

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:30:00 +0200

Answers: Fontana, Manzoni, and Kounellis

Showcase Your Art Taste in an Online Collection

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:27:18 +0200

The new website ArtStack is granting all Artini readers access to its promising website. Join and assemble your own fantasy art collection or follow users with similar taste.

Prominent galleries, artists, and tastemakers are already participating. Check out Artini’s growing collection of Italian contemporary and post-war art while you browse.

http://theartstack.com//users/signup/artiniblog

Best Idea for a Sunday Outing in London

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:09:00 +0200

Alberto Burri at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Highbury

londonlovesyou:

Lovely little exhibition of the Umbrian artist’s work in a sweet little museum-gallery off Upper Street, near the Highbury end.

Cost: £5 (includes access to permanent collection) | Location: here | Until: 7th April | Info: here

5 Fontanas you’ve never seen

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:33:00 +0200

(with Egidio Costantini) Meriggio, 1965

(with Hisachika Takadaschi) 1966

Via Crucis 1953-1954

(with Osvaldo Borsani) Table, 1955

Concetto Spaziale, 1961

5 Fontanas you’ve never seen

London February 2012 Contemporary Evening Auctions Recap

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:49:53 +0100

Sotheby’s exceeded their high estimate for a total of 50.7 million GBP with 90.5% lots sold.

Sotheby’s stated in their press release, “Stand-out results were also achieved in [Sotheby’s Evening Auction] for Italian art with the sum of £2,057,250/$3,233,586/€2,464,379 achieved for Alberto Burri’s Nero Plastica, a marvellous volcanic topography of molten black plastic, which carried a pre-sale estimate of £800,00-1,200,000).”

Christie’s fell within their 56.7-84 million GBP estimate at 80.5 million GBP and 89% of lots sold.

Phillips de Pury realised 5.7 million GBP with 92% of lots sold.

According to the Baer Faxt, the underbidder of the Stingel lot that went for 420,000 was Inigo Philbrick.

All positive indicators for the upcoming Spring Sales