□ Thursday, 30 Aug 2007

Volatile Markets? Art World Takes Stock
The fall art auctions are almost three months away, galleries are still in their summer hiatus, and the Dow keeps fluctuating. But the art world is wondering how volatile financial markets might affect its own specialized market. More...

Hirst Sells Skull for $100 Million, Manager Says
Damien Hirst, the U.K.'s wealthiest artist, is selling his diamond skull to an investment group for $100 million, said Frank Dunphy, Hirst's business manager. More...

Mystery Solved - A Fairground by L.S. Lowry Identified
LONDON - Following the announcement last week of a newly-discovered fairground scene by Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976), it has now emerged that the scene depicted is not, in fact, Beswick Fair, nr Manchester, as had been mooted. More...

Call for Artists - Emerson Visiting Critics and Curators Series
ST. LOUIS, MO - Each year, as part of its mission to promote the local arts community, the Contemporary invites internationally renowned critics and curators to St. Louis. More...

□ Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007

The Belgiorno-Nettis Family Donate $4 Million to AGNSW
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that one of the leading arts families in Australia: the Belgiorno-Nettis family have agreed to donate $4 million to the gallery over four years in support of its contemporary art galleries. More...

Sotheby's Achieves Several Records at Important Australian Art Auction in Melbourne
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Sotheby’s has realised $9.652million at the conclusion of part 1 of its two day sale. Doug Moran, leading Australian businessman and arts philanthropist (responsible for the Doug Moran portrait prize... More...

□ Tuesday, 28 Aug 2007

Shanghai: Art Deco capital - for now
Just as Shanghai's priceless architectural legacy is gaining overdue recognition, it faces new threats from developers, reports Richard Spencer More...

Their impotence writ large
Not even the Vietnam War and the Cuban missile crisis could inspire Pop artists to more than empty gestures. More...

Disputed Pollocks To Go On Display For First Time
A controversial cache of drip paintings is unveiled for the first time at BC. The question remains: Did the famed Abstract Expressionist create them? More...

□ Monday, 27 Aug 2007

British Library uncovers missing Constable
A lost sketch by John Constable, never recorded in the catalogues of his work, has tumbled with a cascade of other drawings and letters from volumes which the British Library has owned for almost a century. More...

Agency frustrates art donors
Terry Bush is angry. Son of painter Jack Bush and executor of his father's artistic legacy, he organized a donation of the artist's sketch records to Kingston's Agnes Etherington Art Centre last year. More...

□ Sunday, 26 Aug 2007

Celebrity Portraits from the Andy Warhol Factory Years
KOBLENZ, GERMANY -Dr. Martin Irvine, President and Director of Irvine Contemporary, Washington, D.C. is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Celebrity Portraits from the Andy Warhol Factory Years... More...

Prints Through The Ages - Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints at Christie's London
LONDON - The most varied and substantial array of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints to be offered in many years at Christie’s London, will be auctioned in a two day sale on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 September, 2007. More...

□ Thursday, 23 Aug 2007

Wanted: Two museum directors - visionaries and street-smart aesthetes preferred
Picking a new museum director is more art than science, says Malcolm MacKay, the New York consultant whose recommendations have filled the top spots at many of the country's leading museums. More...

Beauty is More Than Skin Deep - Anatomy as Art - at Christie's
NEW YORK - Encompassing two hundred of the greatest and most visually arresting classics in the history of the art of the human body, the Collection of Dr. Dean Edell will be offered for sale at Christie's on October 5, 2007. More...