The agenda of art lovers in the month of September will be full of important appointments for the art market, with regard to both ancient art and modern and contemporary art.   Various sales will be held by the different international auction houses.  All ready to start a second semester wondering what it will be like.

Title: Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: When Pablo Picasso collaged pieces of newspaper into his 1914 work Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum, he brought the outside world into the frame, initiating a dialogue with popular culture that has extended for generations.
Start Date: 2008-07-30
End Date: 2008-11-10

translated by Giorgina Arcuri

Art Basel has started and the buyers have arrived. However, the Americans are missing. This seems to be the biggest complaint on behalf of operators. The American public has stepped aside and given way to the Europeans. It is not a change that affects the number of transactions, but rather an actual geographic shift of the market. This does not worry all the art gallery managers, some of whom have proven to be indifferent with respect to who buys the works. Also because many of the participants are too busy calculating their business volume to worry about the nationality of the buyers.

Here you are the most interesing prices of last days.

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

The “Prints” exhibition held on 29th and 30th April 2008, at Christie’s auction house New York, totalled 12,392,750 dollars, with 88% of sales. It was an excellent result for a sale dedicated to prints, an artistic sector that is considered to be of less importance in the art market.

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

Last October, the death of Ileana Sonnabend launched an upset in the art world. A woman of refined taste, for decades she was the point of reference for contemporary art, defined by the critic Achille Bonito Olivia as “the greatest gallerist of the second half of the XX century”.