Sotheby’s presents “Manga,” the largest Manga assemblage ever to be offered at auction in Hong Kong, alongside a selling exhibition at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery.
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French business Tycoon Patrick Drahi Has Acquired Sotheby’s for $3.7 Billion
Sotheby’s, the 275-year-old auction house, has been acquired by BidFair USA, a company wholly owned by French-Israeli collector and entrepreneur Patrick Drahi—and he is planning to take the publicly traded company private.
Continue Reading...What’s It Worth at Auction?
Both Sotheby’s (S) and Christies (C) have major London auctions this week, head to head in impressionist, modern and surrealist categories.
Continue Reading...What’s Wrong With Art: The reaction to the shredded Banksy
Should we love or hate Banksy.
Continue Reading...My week in the art world – Signals to Klein
I did however spend an unsurprising amount of time in Mayfair as S2 opened the third and final component of Signals Reimagined, Levy Gorvy was irresistible in presenting two of my favourite artists in dialogue and Artangel took over Cork Street’s construction site for an incredible fund raising auction.
Continue Reading...William Kentridge’s designs for Ornellaia wine raised €140,000 for the upcoming photography centre at the V&A
Sotheby’s and the Italian winery Ornellaia joined again this year for the tenth edition of the Vendemmia d’Artista. The famous winery from Bolgheri called upon William Kentridge to design the labels for this anniversary. The benefit auction raised €140,000 that will be donated to the Victoria & Albert museum.
Continue Reading...The Auction as Show
Unsurprisingly, the leading auction houses are all selling photographic work to coincide with Photo London (18-21 May). By way of a warm-up, I looked at them as exhibits rather than as potential purchases. Do they make for a good visit?
Continue Reading...David Hockney x 4 in New York
Two solo booths at the city’s Frieze Art Fair will be dedicated to the British artist’s work
A solo show of 17 new paintings is on view at Pace Gallery‘s 25th Street location plus
A Hockney painting is expected to shatter his auction record will be on view at Sotheby’s Upper East Side headquarters on May 4.
Award winning charity Outside In bring a ground-breaking exhibition to Sotheby’s in new year.
Discover the journeys of award-winning charity Outside In and the artists it supports in a ground-breaking exhibition at London Sotheby’s in January 2018.
Continue Reading...Ernesto Briel: Pioneering Op Art
Opened this November in Gallery Two of S|2 is a great exhibition of Cuban artist Ernesto Briel’s works from the sixties and seventies.
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