Years ago, when I asked Norton Simon why he collected blue chip art and second rate companies he told me it was quite simple.
In 2011, the country was responsible for 41% of the world's art sales, making it the biggest market for art for the second year running, according to market tracker Artprice.
The contemporary art fair ArtRio 2012, now in its second year, draws art collectors from all over and has established Rio as a Latin American cultural hub.
The art market is a second derivative of wealth creation in the world.
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The second-largest art museum in the country hangs masterpieces aplenty, especially Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces.
The art market must be a second derivative of the dramatic increase in the net worth of the 99.9th percentile both here and abroad.
It was the first time ever an international auction house had held a jewelry sale in the Middle Eastern tourist and retail mecca, and the second sale of art.
In 1963, at the age of forty-six, he made up for it by setting up his own informal school in a London railway station, teaching half a dozen teenagers in exchange for a little tobacco or a second-hand art book.
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The year 2010, in which China overtook Europe to become the second-largest art market after the United States, has been described as an annus mirabilis for Chinese art collecting as wealthy Chinese from all levels of the new society chose art and objects as tangible assets, suitable for investment, trading and bragging rights beyond simple display.
The Abramsons lived at the Ardsley, an Art Deco building at Ninety-second Street and Central Park West.
With that simple proposition, the Japanese painter Yoshihara Jiro launched Gutai, the manic art movement that rallied Japan after the Second World War.
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But the resulting show introduced her art to an audience of newer collectors, and since then, "people have taken a second and third look" at her output, said art adviser Clay Press.
Sometimes, you get a second chance, at least in collecting art.
The second they become as obtuse as the modern art Goldstein bemoans, they stop working all together.
This is the second time in a decade that the Chinese art market has slowed after a spurt of growth, Hu noted.
He recently made the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 list and his second book called Promote Yourself: The New Art of Getting Ahead is due out in the Fall of 2013 by St.
The famous art historian and scholar Giorgio Vasari, writing in the second edition of his Lives of the Artists in 1568, mentioned that Pinturicchio's painting was "over the door of a room in the Apostolic Palace".
That exurban estate is one of Pinault's favorites among six homes and is filled with contemporary art and the 18th-century French furniture favored by his second wife, Maryvonne.
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Further high prices are expected at a second Sotheby's contemporary and post-war art sale on Wednesday, with two Christie's sales focusing on the same period also taking place in New York this week.
She gets to work with some of the world's best known companies, thanks to her professional credentials and track record, and she believes that her second career as a painter allows her to use art as a catalyst for more effective thinking among those clients.
More aptly chosen is a second sunflower image of 1887 from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicting two slightly wilted blossoms lying on a rich ultramarine blue tablecloth.
Toy Story 3, the highest grossing film of 2010, won Best Animated Feature and Alice in Wonderland, the second highest earning film, won for costume design and art direction.
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The auction houses enter a second round of high-stakes sales devoted to postwar and contemporary art.
As far as the art-gallery system is concerned, don't count them out for a second.
Malkin won the Art Ross and Hart trophies last season after leading the NHL in points for the second time in four years.
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"For quite a while I didn't flag my second career to students or clients, because of the longstanding antipathy between art and commerce, " she admits.
Moore's work in textiles was inspired by his aims as an artist after the second world war, particularly his belief, as a Socialist, that art could be a cohesive force in society, bringing together communities through creative public projects.
Thirty-three people named books by Daniels (in second place, Dava Sobel, with 13 mentions), especially "The Art of Breguet" (1975) and "Watchmaking" (1981).
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Though I was busy with my life at my in-laws' house, I couldn't stop thinking about my second brother and his trumpet, all the more so because I worked in the art sector.
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