Moshi Moshi, Medici! Completely Biased Adventures in Contemporary Art Collecting…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m an animal lover but this is the typical knee-jerk “liberal” SF reaction: ban and censor rather than discussion and exploration even though discrimination of such type is similar to totalitarian tactics.
Glad I live in New York where you can still buy live seafood!
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S.F. Gallery Suspends “Animal Snuff Video” Show After […]

For once I agree with Roberta Smith of the NY Times. It was a pretty safe art fair, considering its an art fair in the first place.
I found it hard to find the jewels between the shit, though with all the big works on offer, I did find relief (and pleasantly affordable) purchases with small […]

I thought this was rather funny.Rather makes concrete the relationships between art, sex and commerce!
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Emperor’s Club Contemporary Art?

By ARTINFO
Published: March 14, 2008
 
 
NEW YORK—Emperor’s Club — the escort service at the heart of the Eliot Spitzer scandal — also has a foothold in the art world, assuming one can trust that a related Web site […]

Check out young gun Fawad Khan’s New York solo debut, “Fast Traveling Passenger” with new works of gouache and ink on paper as well as a large-scale sculptural installation. Heavily inspired by media depictions of the continued wars in the Middle East, Khan connects current politics with childhood fantasies of cars and toys.

Comes to no surprise that the drive for contemporary Indian art comes not just from Global North collectors as Saarchi but also from home-grown collectors. Same story in the hyper economies of China and the Russian Federation.
What is a more interesting story not often written about is the movements of local Global South collectors: What […]

As I wrote before, the current “instability” of the art market will only damper the lower and middle markets for art work. Quality will continue to rock.
Armory week is only three weeks away, and I think sales there will be a better indicator.
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London February Sales Not So Stellar After All, Says ArtTactic

 
By ARTINFO
Published: March […]