Hong Kong kicks off a set of Asian art sales on Friday, and next week the rest of the art world will descend on London's Frieze Art Fair for contemporary sales.
Many collectors had no idea that aboriginal art would become one of the art world's fastest-growing profit centres.
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Whether the artist deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as the long-time stars of the art world is a matter of personal taste, but the sale of "Chinese Girl" appears to have cemented his reputation as a commercial, if not critical, success.
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The event kicked off a week that is synonymous with art and parties, as most of the art world clusters poolside for Art Basel, the Miami Beach edition, year number ten.
As the founding place of the Dadaist art movement, which rejected reason and logic and championed cultural chaos, Zurich became the centre of the art world in the early 1920s.
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New York, it was said, had replaced Paris as the innovative centre of the art world.
The artist, who has himself been exhibited at the Tate, was also dismissive of the patrons of the art world.
"It's only now that people are beginning to question if New York is the center of the art world, " says Govan.
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Born and raised in Bay Ridge, Mr. Hionas, 41, is a personal trainer to some of the art world's biggest stars.
Much of the art world accepted him for what he was even as he hid his own self-doubt under a gee-shucks insouciance.
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Twice a year, a caravan of art-world insiders descends on London for 10 frenzied days of cocktail parties, exhibits and high-pressure sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art.
Given that the couple are already subject to life through the lens, this is a poignant take on lost love by one of the art world's favorite sons.
The project fulfilled Mr. Krens's desire for a global presence, something that has been sharply criticized by other members of the art world who think the Guggenheim should stay at home.
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Forget all that, the ICA now wants to be part of the art world establishment, to sit with confidence at the top table with Tate, the Serpentine and the Frieze Art Fair.
But both Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires already had bustling arts scenes, so in 2006 they settled on Rio, which was still plagued by drug gang violence and resolutely off the radar of the art world.
The work, by partners Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, is another example of the blend of art and politics on show this year at the event that's often referred to as the "Olympics" of the art world.
Fascinated by the lives and personalities of others and fond of art-world gossip, Golding possessed emotional intuition that enriched not only his intimate relationships but his art-historical writing, where artists are presented as individuals with temperaments that profoundly influenced the tenor of their work.
Though PULSE is a smallish fair for lesser-known exhibitors, its opening party is a true microcosm of the art world: the art-lovers are easily identifiable by their enthusiasm and sometimes by their haircuts, which, depending on the degree of asymmetry, advertise that the individual operates in a realm where flourishes of this sort are not just acceptable but hallmarks of authenticity.
Mr. Perramond said that the company hoped to connect the achievement in the mechanics of time with the world of art.
The UNESCO Art Collection was initiated with the construction of UNESCO building, and it brings together works of art from across the world as a symbol of intellectual and moral solidarity and as a means to deepen it.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
Reno is attracted to him, and seems happy anyway to be a picaro of the Manhattan art world.
With abject competitive fury, he was not above imitating the grand dragon of the Venice art world, Titian, and his designated successor, Veronese.
Lee Miller's own artistic career stalled, but her husband became one of the leading figures in the world of contemporary art.
The two museums housed a collection of Islamic art--one of the world's best--put together by Kuwait's al Sabah family in the '70s and '80s.
Mr Danto, a jolly, bearded man with a self-deflating sense of humour and an old-fashioned taste in clothes, is the last sort of person you would think of as an authority-figure in the world of contemporary art.
The art world, of course, is an unaffiliated consortium of art historians, curators, merchants of varying stripes: dealers, consultants, auction house specialists, and collectors.
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