Today I headed to Borders with my 30% discount voucher and bought this book, Wolf Kahn Pastels. I need to read something about this artist whom I first saw on an artist’s calendar years ago and whose paintings I love for their colour. Without reading anything of him, why he paints and what he [...]
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Wolf Kahn Pastels
Posted in Art Books, artist, tagged Mark Rothko, Rita Angus, wolf kahn on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mystery of the rotting shark
Posted in art, art theory, artist, tagged Andy Warhol, Christie's New York, Constantin Brancusi, Damien Hirst, Don Thompson, Gonzalez-Torrez, Guggenheim, he $12 Million Stuffed Shark, he Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Saatchi, Sotheby's, Steve Cohen, William de Kooning on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday Apr 25, 2009 By Chris Barton NZ Herald
In 2000, a work known as Lover Boys, comprising 355lb (161kg) of individually wrapped blue and white candies piled in a triangular shape in the corner of a room, came up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York. It was by the “very branded” artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, [...]
The Auckland Art Fair
Posted in art, art theory, artist, tagged Auckland Art Fair, Colin McCahon, Don Thompson, Oaia & Clouds on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visited the Auckland Art Fair last night, I’ll need to go back and take another good look as I seemed to skim past everything, trying to take it all at once – the main purpose of last evening was the lecture by Don Thompson, ‘The curious economics of contemporary art’, author of The $12M Stuffed [...]
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