ART NEWS
ARCOmadrid 2012 will be a meeting place for collectors, gallerists, curators and experts from all over the world
Madrid - February 15, 2012... READ ALL
The art of making money
It's a good time to be a contemporary artist in China. Rapid changes in society, driven by a thriving economy, have fueled creativity and strong high-end demand. As a result, China is now home to almost half of the world's 100 top-earning contemporary artists.
This example of Chinese contemporary sculpture was displayed at 798 Art District in Beijing in the fall.[Photo/Provided to China Daily]
Chen Yifei is one of them. In May, his large oil painting Wind of Mountain Village went under the hammer for almost 69 million yuan ($11 million). It set a record for Beijing at the time,... READ ALL
Damien Hirst SPOTS, SHARKS, MAGGOTS AND MONEY
New York, by Jerry Saltz: - Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon and Catholicism. He’s the working-class hero who as a 23-year-old art student at the University of London’s Goldsmiths college organized “Freeze,” an exhibition of his artwork and that of 15 school chums.
That show, and his own work featuring living flies and maggots, dead butterflies and cut-up dead animals, de-islandized England, alerting the world that Britain was no longer a second-tier art... READ ALL
GAGOSIAN GALLERY HOLDS WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF SPOT PAINTINGS BY DAMIEN HIRST
New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, -
"I was always a colorist, I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color… I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the spot paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of color."
—Damien Hirst
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011” by Damien Hirst.
The exhibition will take place at once across... READ ALL
Miquel Barceló, Penagos Prize for Drawing 2011
Madrid, - A jury chaired by Alberto Manzano Martos, President of the Fundación MAPFRE, and Pablo Jiménez Burillo, Director General of the Institute of Culture, and composed of Francisco Calvo Serraller, Juan Fernandez-Rubio Layos, Leandro Navarro, Estrella de Diego, Julián Grau Santos and María Dolores Jiménez Blanco has decided to award the Drawing Penagos in his 2011 edition of the creator Spaniard Miquel Barceló .
This award was created thirty years ago to pay tribute to artist Rafael de Penagos major figure in the graphic illustration in our country during the decades of the twenties and thirties. Since then, granted... READ ALL
