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Martin Creed’s $ 28,900 (€ 32,200) winning piece The Lights Going On And Off has brought the Turner Prize its usual dose of controversy. Mrs Jacqueline Crofton, a 52-year-old grandmother, herself a successful artist, was immediately escorted from the Tate gallery after she began throwing eggs ...
(James Goulder)
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On the 19th of December Finarte Milan will hold an auction focused on “young art”, presenting the works of 65 emerging artists from Italy and abroad. Several names are already well-known to the market: Vanessa Beecroft’s Untitled, a collage and watercolour on card will be offered at $ 4,150-5,100 (€ 4,600-5,600) ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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Vanessa Beecroft, Untitled
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Police in Spain have arrested 6 people charged with the theft of more than twenty artworks from the Madrid collection of Esther Koplowitz, reputedly the wealthiest businesswoman in the country. The works were stolen on the 9th of August (see daily gabrius news 21/08/2001) and include The Donkey's Fall ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| The scene of the crime in Madrid |
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A painting previously thought to be an anonymous work has now been identified as the only portrait completed of Paul Gauguin by Vincent van Gogh. The painting is now thought to be worth up to $ 7 million (€ 7.8 million) and will be exhibited at the Van Gogh museum, in Amsterdam on the 9th of February 2001. The painting was ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| The logo of the Van Gogh museum, Amsterdam |
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The Dublin auctioneers James Adam was the venue for the joint auction of Irish art held in conjunction with Bonhams, London on the 5th of December. The 134 lot sale saw strong bidding with 69% of lots offered finding buyers to raise a total of $ 2.9 million (€ 3.3 million). Top lot of the sale was Walter Frederick Osborne’s ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Walter Frederick Osborne’s In the Garden, Castlewood Avenue |
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Alfred Taubman, Sotheby’s ex-Chairman was found guilty on the 5th of December in a federal court in New York of conspiring in fixing art buyer commission rates with rivals Christie’s. Though both auction houses were on trial – it was Sotheby’s who took the rap with Mr. Taubman’s role in the collusion ...
(Andrew Moore)
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According to the on-line magazine “The Nando Times” (December, 2nd), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York has been forced it to cut staff and exhibitions to save about $ 1,000,000 (€ 1,120,800) due to a dramatic post-Sept. 11 drop-off in tourists. The 70-year-old facility will lay off 14 workers from ...
(James Goulder)
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| Logo of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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On the 9th of December a painting attributed to Francisco de Goya was stolen from the exhibition “Torino Antiquaria” held in Turin. The small oil (27.5 x 20.5 cm) depicts Count Ugolino della Gerardesca, the legendary 13th century figure accused of eating his sons to survive while imprisoned, an episode ...
(Luisa Vassallo)
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| Francisco de Goya, Self-portrait, 1815 |
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Martin Creed has been announced the winner of the Turner Prize 2001, one of the most prestigious European prizes for the visual arts. On the 9th of December, the thirty-three year old artist from Wakefield (Yorkshire) was awarded the prize during a ceremony presented by the American rock star Madonna and broadcast ...
(Elena Balzani)
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| Martin Creed, The Lights Going On and Off |
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A new law has been approved by the German Parliament, in force as of the beginning of 2002, that will tighten the Law of Obligations. To date it has been up to the courts’ discretion whether to apply a thirty-year limit to claims on property, but this reform will make it compulsory ...
(Luisa Vassallo)
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