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Archive for May 6th, 2009

Thoughtful review of MoMA’s “Into the Sunset…” exhibit

Posted in Exhibitions, Reviews, tagged , , , , , on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve read quite a few reviews of the new MoMA exhibit “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” but I would recommend the slide-show essay by Sarah Boxer at Slate.  Sarah is really thoughtful about the perceptions the larger public has of certain geographic regions because of the images to which it has been exposed.  [...]

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More bad news for the international art market, Sotheby’s in particular

Posted in Auctions, Economics, tagged , , , , , , on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It was a buyer’s market at the Christie’s Dubai sale last week.  While within the auction estimate, the evening brought in less than $5 million as compared to the $8.65 million made at the same sale a year ago.  The most expensive lot was Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli‘s “The Wall and the Script” (pictured above), [...]

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