4 March 2015 • Staff
rom 20th January – 2nd February artists were given the opportunity to submit their work via theArtStack.com for an online competition and the public were invited to vote for their favourite artworks by ‘stacking’. Almost 3,000 artists from over 100 countries submitted more than 11,000 art works on this innovative social media platform.
13 February 2015 • Staff
Christie’s has bought Collectrium, an online collection management tool for the art world. Founded in 2009 by Boris Pevzner, Collectrium… Read More
13 February 2015 • daniel barnes
Auction week heralded the usual suspects: Richter, Hirst, Warhol, Fontanna, Boetti, Klein, Murillo, Twombly, Baselitz, Dubuffet, Basquaiat. Different works, but the same artists endlessly circulating the market.
6 February 2015 • daniel barnes
Damien Hirst sold a lot of very expensive art between 2007 and 2008. So much that he became the world’s most expensive living artist, which gave him the acumen to do whatever he liked. Next week, the seminal Pill Cabinet Lullaby, Winter is going under the hammer at Christie’s, but it has a curious history as an unfulfilled promise that had momentous effects.
26 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Crowdfunded Art With a Twist..
22 January 2015 • Staff
Christie’s and ArtStack have announced a new and unique initiative this season: the first crowd-sourced auction initiative. The aim is to give emerging artists chosen by the public the opportunity to be included in an auction, using new technologies and influenced by the current trend for crowd sourcing.
16 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Some of Goldsmiths’ ex artists including Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Julian Opie, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Steve McQueen! have donated works to a special Christie’s auction in aid of raising money to build a new gallery at Goldsmiths, University of London.
9 January 2015 • daniel barnes
A spectre is haunting the artworld. In the foyer of Christie’s New York, at over twelve feet tall and made of painted steel, Jeff Koons’ Balloon Monkey (Orange) (2006-2013) presides over daily business.
4 January 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes Bruegel, abstract colour, a piano on fire, architecture and cockatoos
24 December 2014 • Tabish Khan
The best commercial exhibitions of 2014 covering both galleries and auctions
13 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Multiplied The Contemporary Editions Fair from Christies opens this Friday 17th October.
FAD has chosen three artist and their galleries ahead of the opening, giving you a sneak peak of what to expect.
2 October 2014 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Who doesn’t love a giant shiny orange balloon monkey? Not Christie’s New York that’s for sure. They love it so much that they’re putting it out in front of their Rockefeller Plaza HQ for 6 weeks before they sell it.
28 September 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
24 September 2014 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Gold iPhone6 launched, but FAD thinks maybe we’d rather spend the cash at Christie’s this week…
4 July 2014 • daniel barnes
The saleroom was electric. Not like it’s got a family full of eccentrics, but like important things were about to happen.
13 June 2014 • daniel barnes
This immanent and inevitable catastrophe is a lesson in how the unchecked might of the market renders impotent the museums whose mandate is to preserve our rich cultural history.
26 May 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
16 April 2014 • Mark Westall
On May 13th, Christie’s Evening Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art will present a major painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
17 March 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
26 February 2014 • Mark Westall
Whether it is 108 polystyrene bricks, bouncing light or hundreds of nails attached to old sailcloth, the works of art at a newly opened exhibition all have one thing in common: they move – some almost imperceptibly, others at alarming speed.
15 February 2014 • Mark Westall
Cutting Edge Art and Fresh New Talent
9 January 2014 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst does Mickey Mouse for charity
29 October 2013 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most days art critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
14 October 2013 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
