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(In the old version of the website this page has been used for a while for news about the Art Scammers and Phishing Scams. But this became a not very creative kind of news for us, and in fact a waste of time and energy. If you get mails from obvious Art Scammers, with a strange or free email address, who want to buy your paintings ASAP and promise to pay with a check, just beware! The best is to go to the ArtQuest website, they have a special page and a database with names of known Art Scammers. http://www.artquest.com )
Art Market Trends 2007 (From Artprice) Artprice publishes its exclusive art market report that more than 6,300 international media and institutions rely on each year.Based on the 5,4 million auction recorded by 2,900 auction houses, "Art Market Trends 2007" is a 44-pages report of macroeconomics and microeconomics analyses updated to match the auction events and the artworks prices evolutions. This report published by ArtMarketInsight, Artprice's press agency, in collaboration with Artprice's econometrics department also includes genuine rankings such as the TOP 500 artists by turnover, the 100 highest auctions of the year. Contents * Edito * The speculative bubble on the art market reached its peak in 2007 * Suicidal competition * The United States consolidates it market leader position * London, an ideal terrain for speculation * China moves up to the number 3 position in the global art market * Drouot: last bastion of the French art market? * Is the worst yet to come? The Art Market Confidence Index - a useful tool * The TOP 10 artists Download pdf in French and English
Social networking Web site launched for artists LONDON (Reuters) - A Canadian publisher and philanthropist has launched a new social networking site for artists, underlining the growing influence of the Internet in showcasing and selling art. Louise MacBain said the site, www.myartinfo.com, could be compared to popular networking site www.facebook.com, and allowed artists to showcase their work, chat with each other online and blog. "The idea is that it becomes a global platform for people to go and show their art," said MacBain, a wealthy businesswoman who has invested heavily in the arts in Britain in recent years. "With myartinfo people can post for free their art -- not only visual art, but performing arts, film, poetry, sculpture, fashion, architecture and design." MacBain's company LTB Media has also re-launched www.artinfo.com, an online guide to art and culture, and a new Art Sales Index allowing users to access auction prices and other records for more than 200,000 artists
Earth Day April 22, 2008 - Earth Day 2008 Events Worldwide
This landmark exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts presents modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal collections: the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. For the first time, works from these museums have been gathered for a single exhibition. Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich.
The 8th Communicating the Museum conference The leading international meeting place for museum and cultural marketing and communication professionals "Communication Strategies: How to make an impact" 25 - 28 June 2008, Venice, Italy Are you a marketing or communication professional looking for fresh and innovative ideas to plan your communication strategies? The Communicating the Museum conference, now in it's 8th year, has chosen "Communication Strategies: How to make an impact" as this year's principal theme. How to make an impact has become vital for any organisation building a smart communication strategy and is the key to any organisation's success - whether it be a strategy for the long or the short term, a permanent collection or a temporary exhibition. Topics covered include strategic planning in: Audience Research and Development, New Media, Advertising, Programming and more.
Arcimboldo’s Feast for the Eyes By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN - Published: October 10, 2007 The glad mobs in Paris, forming polite, cheerful scrums before these stately paintings of people with vegetable faces and fish eyes seem to recognize in Arcimboldo something of the French impulse to bring order to everything.
It’s definitely a bubble, but when it will burst is anybody’s guess From the Art Newspaper - By Richard Feigen | Posted 03 July 2007 - The writer is director of Richard L. Feigen & Co. in New York and author of “Tales from the Art Crypt” (Knopf, 2000) The sources of the “bubble”, if such it be, trace back to the mid 1980s. It was then that art began its transformation from luxury to fungible asset, from bagatelle to investment. Banks started to lend money on art and form “art advisory” departments. Auction houses began providing “guarantees”, “advances” and “financial services” to buyers and sellers. Art had been monetised.
LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM With the reopening of the LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM on 29 March 2004, some of the art treasures in the Princely Collections returned home to the Garden Palace in Vienna. They had been on public exhibition there up to 1938, and were known as the “most beautiful private collection” in the world. Thus, Vienna now joins Vaduz as a second showcase for the engaged princely patronage by successive generations of the House of Liechtenstein.
The Grand Atelier Pathways of Art in Europe (5th - 18th century) Friday 05.10.2007 > Sunday 20.01.2008 - Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels) Long before asserting itself as a political entity, Europe was an area of intense circulation of people and goods. Despite wars and conflicts, this exchange of ideas, goods and innovations established lasting bonds between human communities, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic, from the Atlantic to the Urals. We often forget that artists, works of art and even wealthy men seeking to satisfy their hunger for beauty also travelled the trade routes and waterways. Thus, it is through past masterpieces and even modest works, that we can grasp and appreciate what was even at the dawn of the Middle Ages, a European space of art and thought.
The Art Newspaperproduces special daily editions from the three main international art fairs: Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze London. Each 12-pages edition is published daily during the fair and distributed free throughout the venue as well as selected hotels, museums and galleries in the host city.
China overtakes France Leading economist says it is now number three after the US and UK Melanie Gerlis | 7.2.08 | Issue 188 LONDON. China is the third most important art market by value, replacing France, which has long held the coveted spot, after New York and London, a leading economist has said. A report by Dr Clare McAndrew, who runs a research company Art Economics, commissioned by the organisers of The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf), Maastricht, and including both auction and dealer data, found that by the end of 2006, China had already become the fourth largest global art market by value, with a 5% share. The US, UK and France were at 46%, 27% and 6% respectively.
Cranach at the Royal Academy - 8 Mar—8 Jun 2008 In the Sackler Wing of Galleries The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition in Britain devoted to Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472–1553). A collaboration between the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main and the Royal Academy, the exhibition brings together some 70 works chosen to represent the quality and range of this important master. As the leading member of a German family of artists, Lucas Cranach was a painter, printmaker and book illustrator with a distinctly individual manner and a highly successful business. He was one of the most versatile artists of the Renaissance, court artist to the Saxon electors, a staunch supporter of the Reformation, and a close friend of Martin Luther. During the course of his long career, Cranach created striking portraits and expressive devotional works, propaganda for the Protestant cause, as well as his own brand of erotic female nude and inventive treatments of biblical, mythological and classical subjects.
The community is called Myartspace. You can find it at www.myartspace.com. At its core, the community is a place for individuals and institutions to create a professional art presence, share their work, and have to opportunity to connect with other people within the art world, whether they be artists, educators, critics, dealers, collectors, or whomever else. All Myartspace members have free public profiles on which to post their art work, resume/CV, blog postings, biographic information, podcasts, links to friends and contacts, and more. The interface is clean, uniform, elegant and extremely user-friendly. No design or programming work is required on the part of the user.
Introducing 3D Image Search Finding a needle in a hay stack is nearly impossible. But finding a picture in SpaceTime's™ visual stacks is easy. Now you can search Yahoo! Images and Google Images and take advantage of your computer's high powered graphics and fast broadband connection as SpaceTime™ displays thousands of images at once. Enter your search term and SpaceTime™ displays your search results in their own visual stack. Enter another search and SpaceTime™ displays your second search results next to your first.
Tokyo’s New Art Area: Explore the Art Triangle Roppongi With the arrival of two major museums - The National Art Center, Tokyo (opening 21 January) and the Suntory Museum of Art (opening 30 March) - Roppongi is set to become established as one of Tokyo's major cultural centers. To celebrate, these two new museums, along with current Roppongi resident the Mori Art Museum, have agreed to work together to further promote art appreciation - both inside their galleries and beyond. The three museums will form the "Art Triangle Roppongi." The first activity of Art Triangle Roppongi was to make a handy map, which not only links the three museums, but highlights some of the other cultural attractions in the vicinity. Use the map to navigate your way around Tokyo’s most exciting art area!Download the map (PDF/4.6MB)
"Dutch Landscape Drawings" - Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 6 October 2007- 24 February 2008 This exhibition provides a rare glimpse of a rich collection of 17th-century Dutch master drawings from the Department of Prints and Drawings. With works by such artists as van Goyen, Rembrandt and van de Velde, the exhibition offers the visitor an intimate encounter with the old masters and their working methods, and provides an insight into one of the most epoch-making chapters in the history of western landscape art.
Bruegel to Rubens: masterpieces of Flemish painting Exhibition - 28 September 2007 – 6 April 2008 The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse This exhibition brings together 50 of the finest Flemish Renaissance paintings in the Royal Collection, works of art characterised by their flawless technique, fine craftsmanship and miraculous realism, whether it be in the depiction of a face, a flower or a torch-lit interior. In the first half of the 16th century the Low Countries was the richest and most civilised region of Europe. Remarkably Flemish culture survived the tragedy of the Eighty Years War (1568-1648). Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Massacre of the Innocents is a savage satire on Spanish suppression; Rubens and others welcomed the prospect of peace with powerful celebrations of the beauty and fertility of the Flemish landscape. Royal acquisition of Flemish painting and patronage of artists, in particular Rubens and Van Dyck, had an enormous impact on English artists. Among the many highlights of the exhibition are Quinten Massys’s moving portrait of Erasmus and masterful landscapes by Rubens, including three from the artist’s own collection.
