Category: Art
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Christie’s maintains global leadership Position in the art business
30% of all buyers were new with many initiating activity through digital art sales (20%). Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, entered its 250th year, by announcing a total of £4.8 billion / $7.4 billion in sales for the last twelve months. 2015 sales were down 5% (by£) for the same period in 2014. The…
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Haute en couleurs: JonOne’s contemporary take on Guerlain’s iconic “bee bottle”
American graffiti artist John Andrew Perello, better known as JonOne, revisited iconic Guerlain “Bee Bottle” created in 1853 as a special order for the marriage of Empress Eugénie to Napoleon III. Guerlain teamed up with JonOne for an arty reinterpretation of the “bee bottle” in a special limited series. The artist offered a contemporary take…
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Art market in ‘mania phase’ and risks bursting of the bubble, report says
Experts expect a ‘severe correction’, particularly in contemporary and American art, after years of spiralling prices and celebrity and luxury obsession
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Annie Leibovitz ‘trying hard’ for photo session with Angela Merkel
Photographer’s new exhibition Women opens at London’s Hydraulic Power Station
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50 David Bowie moments
From suburban London schoolboy to a musical colossus, snapshots of David Bowie’s kaleidoscopic life
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Golden Globes 2016: just rewards for The Revenant – and an incredible coup for The Martian
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s muscular, visceral movie deserves its four awards, but the Globes went a little more leftfield – and a lot more populist – when it came to the other winners