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Saturday 4.7.09
The era of diamonds and gold as artistic materials is passing, judging by the art on offer at the latest edition of Art Basel which opens to VIP visitors today. While the ground floor of the fair has always been strong in classic modern works of art, there is a noticeable increase in historically established names such as Donald Judd, Alexander... >>>
Dasha Zhukova, the founder of the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and partner of billionaire Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, has told The Art Newspaper that video footage of the national pavilions in the Giardini and the displays in the Arsenale will be shown on large screens in the gallery for one month from 15 June. The... >>>
The Avant-garde really was avant-garde then. There were very few contemporary art museums, prices were generally low, the galleries and collectors were a small band of true believers and there was only one contemporary art fair, in Cologne, which had started in 1967 with just 18 German galleries. Then, a year later, three Basel gallerists met... >>>
Visitors to the Schaulager may be astonished at the generosity of the Kunstmuseum Basel in lending 180 major paintings and sculptures, for “Holbein to Tillmans” (until 4 October). The Schaulager, a bold project funded by the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, is a storehouse of modern and contemporary art, open for groups, which has an annual summer... >>>
Viktor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian billionaire art collector, has emerged as a stakeholder in Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God. Pinchuk, who is currently hosting a massive display of Hirst’s work at his Kiev gallery, was referred to as a part-owner of the skull in The Washington Post. The majority stake is jointly owned by... >>>
