Warhol and Richter Shine in London Contemporary Auctions - Weekly Newsletter

February 17, 2011 Dear mike, In this edition of our newsletter, we summarize this week's contemporary art sales in London. Starting this week, we will show you all that is new and newsworthy in the art world with opening exhibitions and news & market round-ups. Also, you can watch Wolfgang Tillmans describe his fascinating contribution to the British Art Show 7. Enjoy! What's new with your favorite artists and venues?  - 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

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Warhol self-portrait sells for $17.4 million in impressive contemporary art sale Pop-artist's work doubles pre-sale estimates as auction at Christie's London fetches a strong total of $99 million, well above the high estimate; Richter and Warhol shine in Sotheby's $71 million parallel sale as Weiwei's porcelain seeds sell for $560,000 - $5.66 per seed!   more...

Things to See, Places to Be

Jan 13, 2011-Feb 18, 2011 Exhibition Shangri-La Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art Israel / Tel Aviv		Jan 22, 2011-Mar 5, 2011 Exhibition Thomas Zipp – The Forbidden Conduct (Deviations in conservative societies) Sommer Contemporary Art Israel / Tel Aviv
Feb 18, 2011-Mar 26, 2011 Exhibition Merav Sudaey: Walk Like an Egyptian Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel / Tel Aviv		Feb 24, 2011-May 24, 2011 Exhibition Yossi Breger: And there was evening And there was morning, One day Tel Aviv Museum of Art Israel / Tel Aviv

State of the Art - New and Newsworthy in the World of Art

This Week's Major Exhibition Openings Judd, Rembrandt, Bourgeois, Emin, Picasso, Ramos, Gérôme, Monet, Schiele, Tuymans and many more.

News & Market Round-Up of the Week that Was Art HK could join forces with Art Basel; Obama budget proposal would cut 13.3% from cultural grantmakers and more.

Featured Video

Wolfgang Tillmans' Photographs Without a Camera German artist talks about his contribution to the British Art Show 7 - the immense abstract 'Freischwimmer 155' which was made without a camera by subjecting photographic paper to various forms of light and exposure.   More About the Exhibition

Artists exhibiting in the British Art Show

Milena Dragicevic		Charles Avery		Haroon Mirza		Varda Caivano

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Featured news & articles

	Art by numbers Arabian Business Published: Feb 13, 2011 At the core of Dubai's contemporary art scene is a group of diverse young globetrotters intent on both internationalizing the market and building a solid local base.    more...
	No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial Art:21 Published: Feb 15, 2011 Dial is an artist who helps to represent a generation of Americans that are fading into a history that still hasn't been properly recognized or written.    more...

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Selected Auction Results

Glenn Brown Declining Nude Sold for 1,273,250 GBP Sotheby's London Feb 15, 2011		Martial Raysse Last Year in Capri (Exotic Title) Sold for 4,073,250 GBP Christie's King Street Feb 16, 2011
John Piper Gaddesby, Leicestershire Sold for 5,760 GBP Bonhams Knightsbridge Feb 16, 2011		Jenny Saville Branded Sold for 1,497,250 GBP Christie's King Street Feb 16, 2011

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Art world headlines

Cairo teen finds looted pharaonic statue AFP / February 2011		Antiquities found in homes of deposed Tunisian president's family The Art Newspaper / February 2011
University of Iowa President delivers written remarks over sale of Pollock mural Press-Citizen / February 2011		Museum Sues USA Over Mummy Mask Courthouse News Service / February 2011
Scientists discover why Van Gogh's yellow turn brown The Independent / February 2011		Bloomberg to Donate $32 Million to Arts The Wall Street Journal / February 2011
Obama budget proposal would slash 13.3% from cultural grantmakers while buoying D.C. arts institutions Los Angeles Times / February 2011		Artist Jasper Johns Receives Presidental Medal of Freedom The Wall Street Journal / February 2011

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