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Highlights from the Artprice Contemporary Art Market Report

by Corinna Kirsch on October 10, 2012

What happens to the wealthy is what happens to the rest of the art world. At least, that’s what Artprice’s annual contemporary art market report suggests. Every October, Artprice publishes The Artprice Annual Report, a whopping 140-page document about trends in the contemporary art market; they look at art auction records,then talk to dealers and anybody else managing multi-million-dollar art sales to come up with a sense of the health of the market as a whole. We disagree, knowing that what happens at the auction houses doesn’t trickle down to the rest of the art world; for all its flaws, though, we enjoy reading this thing.

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Friday Links! All the Important News You Won’t Find at the Beach

by Corinna Kirsch on July 6, 2012

If Jeffrey Deitch takes on curatorial responsibilities at LA MoCA, he’ll need to start writing exhibition catalogue essays. We dug up this one Deitch wrote in 2005 about Ryan McGinness, who Deitch thinks is “one of the rare artists who is pushing the boundaries of the definition of art and the artist.” So. Deep. [Ryan McGinness]
My friends have been talking about the latest This American Life episode where Ira Glass and a friend run into a woman pretending to be Cindy Sherman at MoMA’s now-closed Cindy Sherman exhibition. The verdict: any Upper East Side woman could make a convincing Cindy. [This American Life]
Steven Henry Madoff thinks this year’s Documenta “May Be the Most Important Exhibition of the 21st Century.” Such a lofty declaration can’t be taken too seriously. What’s unacceptable about Madoff’s essay is his explanation that this year’s Documenta is important because it slows down ”the era of the Internet and its metastasizing limb, social media, [that] have so radically dispersed our concentration.” [ArtINFO]
This Taco Bell critic on YouTube serves up some simple lessons art critics should observe, like paying attention to the details and subtle flavors instead of taking in everything at once. [YouTube]
Damien Hirst designed a public sculpture for the beach. It’s a pregnant woman in bronze. [FAD]
Belgium wants stricter money-laundering laws for art galleries. [The Art Newspaper]
Yesterday, Eyebeam exceeded its $25,000 goal on Kickstarter. That’s a lot of money for a nonprofit capital campaign. [#ArtsTech Tumblr]
To be filed under “Colonial Remorse,” the British Museum is returning hundreds of stolen artifacts to Afghanistan. [Museums Journal]

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AFC’s Cheat Sheet for Today’s Contemporary Sale at Phillips de Pury

by The AFC Staff on June 28, 2012

Get ready for another art auction! Today Phillips de Pury will hold its Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London. We’re watching it online at 7 PM (2 PM for New Yorkers), and we’ve created a cheat sheet for the most talked about lots. Which records will be shattered? Which artworks will be remain unsold? And most important, will the auctioneer pronounce artists’ names correctly?

We made pros and cons for the works that were most interesting to us, so you can place your bets. Our predictions: cement trucks, dicks, and the letter U will all edge toward victory.

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Akron Art Museum Sells a Cindy Sherman for $2.8 Million at Christie’s

by Corinna Kirsch on May 9, 2012

Tuesday night, the Akron Art Museum sold off Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96 (1981) at Christie's. Continuing the solid sales at New York spring auctions, the “orange” Cindy Sherman sold for $2,882,500, including tax and commission. That's more than the Akron Art Museum's total revenue from 2010.

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Artspace: Win $5,000 of (Seriously) Great Art

by Sponsors on May 7, 2012

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[Sponsor] Bid on Contemporary Art in the BAMart Silent Auction

by Sponsors on April 16, 2012

Own a piece of contemporary art and help support America's oldest performing arts organization by bidding in the Eighth Annual BAMart Silent Auction. With works across all media and bids beginning at $200, there is something for every collector out there. The auction is powered by Paddle8, and BAM will be partnering with Phillips de Pury & Company, which will feature a number of works in their upcoming spring auctions. Visit the BAMart auction website for more information and to register, browse and bid. Bidding closes at 6 pm on April 22.

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MoMA’s Cindy Sherman Exhibition Website Disappoints

by Corinna Kirsch on April 12, 2012

Sometimes the right idea comes along, but it goes to the wrong brain. That's what happened with MoMA's Cindy Sherman exhibition website. MoMA had the good idea to put up hundreds of images online, and in a rare move for the museum, they hired an outside team to design the website. The bad news: it's a drab, gray mess of navigational tools and small images. I had expected some bells and whistles, but all I got was a glorified slideshow.

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Andy Warhol On Your Face

by Corinna Kirsch on March 22, 2012

When Cindy Sherman collaborated with MAC last year, we weren’t sure the new make up line would sell. Blue-eyeshadowed clowns weren’t trending. We assume somebody must have bought the stuff though because now there's a line of Andy Warhol-inspired cosmetics.

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by Sponsors on December 21, 2011

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