Art's New Price Hype
Arne Glimcher is the founder and chairman of the PaceWildenstein art gallery. He is also a published author, a film producer and a director, whose pictures include The Mambo Kings, Gorillas in the Mist, and Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies.
As the second week of spring art auctions begins today, Arne Glimcher wonders whether the Sotheby's and Christie's have overestimated the market.
The Art World's New Math
Paul Laster is the editor of Artkrush.com, a contributing editor at Flavorpill.com and Art Asia Pacific, and a contributing writer at Time Out New York and Art in America.
The spring auctions will be smaller and the sales expectations are lower, but Paul Laster reports the quality is high-Picasso, Hockney, Ernst-and there are even some bargains.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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