Souren Melikian of The New York Times must enjoy playing naysayer– he’s written the first article I’ve seen this week giving a positive spin on this week’s Modern and Impressionist sales at the major auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s. When all else fails, assess the art market in terms of supply and demand! Click here [...]
Archive for May 8th, 2009
An optimistic assessment of this week’s major auctions!?
Posted in Artists, Auctions, News, tagged art auctions, art market, Christie's, Madonna, Sotheby's, Souren Melikian, Tamara De Lempicka on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cuban-U.S. gov’t relations influence art trade
Posted in Events, News, tagged Alberto Korda, American foreign relations, art, Che Guevara, Cuba, Cuban art, Guerrillero Heroico on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Reuters U.K. published a pretty substantive article yesterday about how the slightly warming inter-governmental relations of the United States and Cuba is reigniting an interest from U.S.-based individual and institutional collectors in Cuban art. Check it out. I’m not familiar with contemporary Cuban artists (maybe that will change, as the article suggests, as the Obama [...]