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Saturday 21 Nov 09
In a surprise move, the Seattle-based art collector Richard Weisman has cancelled his insurance claim for a $25m set of Andy Warhol images that were stolen from his Los Angeles home last month. A $1m reward initially offered by his insurers has also been withdrawn. The silk-screen paintings are a series called “Athletes”; portraits of sports... >>>
Difficult times call for imaginative measures. The Zoo art fair, which was turfed out of its elegant premises last year in the Royal Academy’s Burlington Gardens when Haunch of Venison leased the space, opened to VIP visitors yesterday in three sprawling industrial buildings in the East End. As well as the change in venue, the downturn has forced... >>>
Japanese superstar artist Takashi Murakami is to launch his Geisai fair in Taiwan this December. The Taipei-based event is set to include more than 200 exhibitor booths. The biannual Geisai event, a springboard for emerging artists, began in Tokyo in 2002. The fair has been growing steadily in Japan, but Geisai Miami, launched in 2007, has been... >>>
Robert Storr, US critic, curator and dean of the Yale School of Art, is visiting Frieze Art Fair for the first time, to take part in “Scenes from a Marriage: Have Art and Theory Drifted Apart?”, a panel discussion today at 12pm with artist Barbara Bloom and philosophy professor Simon Critchley. He spoke to The Art Newspaper about the role of art... >>>
