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Sotheby’s Posts Sobering First-Half Results |
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Written by Ibnu Pramudya
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 07:17 |
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NEW YORK—As if Sotheby’s 87 percent drop in profits in the second fiscal quarter, announced Tuesday, wasn’t sobering enough, the firm also got walloped by its archrival Christie’s in the auction sales arena in the first half of 2009, with its $995 million tally falling far behind Christie’s $1.5 billion. The gap can be largely attributed to Christie’s record-shattering Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Bergé single-owner extravaganza in Paris in February, which brought a staggering €374,392,500 ($484.4 million). Twelve works sold for over $10 million each at the six-session sale, including Henri Matisse’s 1911 still life Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, which fetched $46,457,480. It was the most expensive picture ever to sell at auction since Claude Monet’s Bassin aux nympheas (1919) sold at Christie’s London to private consultant Tania Buckrell Pos for a record £40,921,250 ($80,451,178) in June 2008. |
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Shows to See in New England Before Summer’s Out |
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Written by Ibnu Pramudya
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 07:12 |
Shows to See in New England Before Summer’s Out
t’s August, it’s steamy outside, your more fortunate friends are summering (or at least weekending) on the Cape or at the Vineyard, and it seems like there’s not a whole lot going on. But whether you’re looking for escape, stimulation, a history refresher course, a good laugh, a new perspective on an old favorite, or incitement to rebel, New England’s museums have something for you. Click on the photo gallery at left for a few of our favorite current museum shows. |
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Robert Fontenot on Recycling LACMA |
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Written by Ibnu Pramudya
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 15:30 |
Robert Fontenot on Recycling LACMA NEW YORK—Deaccessioning has always been an issue of much discussion and debate in the art world, but for months now, ever since the onset of the Rose Art Museum debacle in January, it’s been a hotter topic than usual. The public eye has been focused more closely on museums selling off pieces from their collections, according to guidelines from the Association of Art Museum Directors and not. One institution in the former category is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which earlier this year sold two paintings as well as more than 100 objects from its costumes and textiles collection at auction. |
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Written by Ibnu Pramudya
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 07:07 |
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 A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John
"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." |
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Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa |
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Written by Ibnu Pramudya
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 15:18 |
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I do not (yet) own this book, but I spent half an hour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gift shop recently in an absolute trance paging through it. The sole review here trashing this beautiful book struck me as so unfair that I feel compelled to write a rebuttal.
The reviewer is concerned that this collection of photographs does not represent the daily lives and cultural practices of the people it represents. That in fact the attention these people are getting from tourists and photographers is encouraging them to show off and thus changing their cultural practices from what they were in isolation. |
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