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From the 4th to the 8th of January the fair Art Miami 2002 will be running at the Convention Center in Miami Beach. Having reached its twelfth edition, Art Miami is one of the most important international events for Latin American art. More than a third of the 100 galleries participating come from Central America ...
(Elena Balzani)
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The total value of artworks owned by Italian private citizens appears to amount to $ 55.6 billion(€ 61.9 billion, ). The figure was estimated on the base of the insurance policies taken out during the year 2000 by more than 15,000 collectors and companies. Almost 70% of the Italian art collections ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| The collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo |
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From the 22nd of December, the fifteen Parisian municipal museums can be visited with free admission. The decision was taken by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe in order to promote museum attendance, which last year was down to 154.000 people, even though this will cause a loss to the cash funds of the municipality of ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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The Francis Bacon Estate have claimed that the artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was warned by the art gallery Marlborough Fine Art (London and Liechtenstein), the painter’s then representatives, not to move to Wildenstein gallery, London or face problems from UK tax authorities. The High Court in London ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Francis Bacon in the 1950’s |
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The Italian artistic heritage, which alone makes up 70% of the world’s cultural heritage, will be catalogued in a virtual data-base. The announcement was made by the Italian Minister of Culture Giuliano Urbani at the end of November. The opportunities offered by new technologies will enable the creation of a virtual ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| Logo of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali |
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Almost quintuplicating his initial estimate, Maurizio Cattelan was the undisputed star of the Young Art sale offered at Finarte, Milan on the 19th of December at the Cartiere Vannucci. After some animated bidding, his 1991 pen on paper work entitled The class struggle sold for L. 9.6 million (€ 4,960, $ 4,450) ...
(Elena Balzani)
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| Maurizio Cattelan, The class struggle |
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According to the “New York Times” Robert Hughes, the Australian art critic for “Time” magazine, has been approached by Italy's minister of culture about being the artistic director of the 2003 Venice Biennale replacing Harald Szeemann, who held the job for the 1999 and 2001 editions of the Biennale ...
(James Goulder)
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The Los Angeles-based magazine “Art issues” celebrated for its unorthodox view of contemporary art and popular culture for the past 13 years ceased publication on December the 8th. Gary Kornblau, who launched “Art issues” in 1989 with $ 30,000 (€ 33,400) and has always been its editor ...
(James Goulder)
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A view or vedute of Naples made a new world record at Sotheby’s sale of Old Master paintings in London on the 13th of December, for the Flemish artist Gaspard Van Wittel, (later known as Vanvitelli) (1653-1736) when it sold for $ 3.2 million (€ 3.54 million). The work was one of two paintings both known ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Vanvitelli’s A Prospect of Posillipo with the Palazzo Donn'Anna, Naples |
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The FBI has recovered three paintings by the US artist Norman Rockwell in Brazil valued up to $ 1 million (€ 1.1 million) which had been missing since 1978. The paintings were stolen from a gallery in Minnesota and were found in a farmhouse outside the Brazilian town of Teresopolis ...
(Andrew Moore)
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