The Coolest Works at Frieze
Anthony Haden-Guest is the news editor of Charles Saatchi’s online magazine.
The art market is coming back strong, reports Anthony Haden-Guest, if sales at London's largest contemporary art fair and Sotheby's are any indication. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
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The A-List Witness List
Ralph Gardner, Jr. is freelance writer whose work has appeared in New York magazine, the New York Observer, the New Yorker and other publications.
How can the defense in the Brooke Astor trial possibly call witnesses as charming and believable as socialites Louis Auchincloss, Annette de la Renta, and Nancy Kissinger?
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.
How China Conquered the Art World
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.
In the past three years, six Chinese artists have been responsible for nearly $400 million in sales. Arne Glimcher on China's continued rise in the art market in the face of the global meltdown.
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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