Your art news & events: June 9, 2010

June 9, 2010 Dear mike, Art Basel is a week away and in anticipation we have included an extensive preview of this year's fair, including an interview with co-directors Annette Schönholzer and Marc Spiegler. Running concurrently to the fair is the Jean Michel Basquiat retrospective at Fondation Beyeler; watch Sam Keller talk about the challenges and importance of hosting this exhibition. Also included this week is a list of contemporary artists in upcoming auctions as well as results from Sotheby's recent Important Russian Art auction. Enjoy! New Updates & Recommendations - Modify your preferences here. Your Artists (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred artists Your Venues (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred Venues Your Categories (0) - you have no recommendations, please select your preferred categories ART FOCUS   Fair-y tale: A look at Art Basel Ahead of the mega event, MutualArt.com spoke with Art Basel Co-Directors Annette Schönholzer and Marc Spiegler; gallerists Anne-Claudie Coric of Galerie Daniel Templon and Cheim & Read's Adam Sheffer, and the Sender Collection curator Sarah Aibel.   more... Featured Events  Jun 4, 2010-Sep 4, 2010 Exhibition Sculptures on Wheels Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv   Jun 4, 2010-Aug 4, 2010 Exhibition Chalil Raad: Photographs 1891-1948 Nahum Gutman Museum Israel / Tel Aviv Jun 9, 2010-Sep 5, 2010 Exhibition Rude Britannia: British Comic Art Tate Britain UK / London   Jun 25, 2010-Jul 25, 2010 Exhibition Maïa Zer: Paintings - The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realistic Painting, 2009 Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv Contemporary Artists at Auctions   Sam Keller on Basquiat in Basel Syed Haider Raza Damien Hirst Yayoi Kusama Tyeb Mehta Heinz Mack   More about the event here This week's Featured News & Articles are open to all users  All eyes set on Basel MutualArt Published: Jun 9, 2010 Considered one of the largest and most important art fairs in the world, Art 41 Basel assembles over 300 galleries from 26 countries. See what's happening this year.    more... Art shrugs off financial crisis as buyers prepare for richest sales yet Times Online Published: Jun 4, 2010 As Europe's economies tremble, the top end of the art market appears to have shaken off any faint connection it may have retained with the fortune    more... Auction results can only be accessed by premium members      Upgrade Now selected auction results Aleksandr Yevgeniyevich Yakovlev TITI AND NARANGHE, DAUGHTERS OF CHIEF EKI BONDO Sold for 2,505,250 GBP Sotheby's London Jun 7, 2010   Yuri Pavlovitch Annenkov PORTRAIT OF ZINOVII GRZHEBIN Sold for 1,777,250 GBP Sotheby's London Jun 7, 2010 Ivan Shishkin THE DARK WOOD Sold for 1,217,250 GBP Sotheby's London Jun 7, 2010   Leon Bakst PORTRAIT OF THE FUTURE COUNTESS HENRI DE BOISGELIN Sold for 758,050 GBP Sotheby's London Jun 7, 2010 Become a Premium member - set your preferences - and the art world will come to you. Premium members get full access to our articles, news, and auction results Upgrade to A Premium Membership at a special rate today Art World Headlines   Donations to Culture Decline 2.4% in Year After Lehman Collapse Bloomberg / June 2010   Bankers, Fashion Models, Dress Painters Mingle at Whitney Gala Bloomberg / June 2010 Tintoretto masterpiece is revealed - but restorers still don't get the picture The Guardian / June 2010   Art market news: Chapman brothers' 'Ubermensch' on sale Telegraph / June 2010 Art that makes a public spectacle of itself Los Angeles Times / June 2010   Lehman Brothers to sell off art collection The Independent / June 2010 About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Partner Programs All rights reserved. Copyright © 2007 - 2010 MutualArt Services, Inc. MutualArt respects your right to privacy. We sent you this email message because you have signed up to receive emails from MutualArt. This email may include advertising or promotional content. If you want to be removed from this email list, please unsubscribe here.