I’m going to make a very rough metaphor, bare with me. Someone pompous once said that “you can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can’t take the Midwest out of the boy.” Similarly, the nouveau riche United Arab Emirates throws money at massive international projects to put themselves on the map (and [...]
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Louvre Abu Dhabi…really?
Posted in Exhibitions, News, tagged Esther Fainting Before Ahaseurus, Francis Bacon, Frank Gehry, Human Rights Watch, Jean Nouvel, Lord Norman Foster, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Piet Mondrian, United Arab Emirates, Yves St. Laurent, Zaha Hadid on June 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Reviews of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Sale
Posted in Auctions, Economics, tagged auction results, Bernard Madoff, Giacometti, Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Sotheby's, Tobias Meyer on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News sources were mostly down on the results of this week’s Impressionist and Modern Sale at Sotheby’s. A lack of bidders for two of the featured works, a Picasso portrait and Giacometti sculpture, brought the sale total to $61.4 million– below the low estimate of $81 million and the lowest sale total in this category [...]
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