 Financial Times | The art market: Ivory and towers Financial Times Anish Kapoor is on a high. His hugely successful (and just plain huge) “Leviathan”, an inflated structure that ballooned inside Paris's Grand Palais as part of the Monumenta series last year, was greatly admired. It is now rumoured to have been sold ... |
 Wall Street Journal | Around the World in Eight Days Wall Street Journal "The Complete Spot Paintings: 1986-2011," a show of works by the semi-deranged British artist/marketing genius Damien Hirst, has taken over all 11 outposts of the Gagosian Gallery through mid-February. Before the show's January opening, Mr. Hirst ... |
 GalleristNY | Getty, Corbis File Amicus Brief in Cariou v. Prince GalleristNY By Dan Duray 2/03 2:49pm On Wednesday photo licensing services Getty Images and Corbis filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief in support of photographer Patrick Cariou's copyright infringement lawsuit against the artist Richard Prince, whose “Canal Zone” ... Photo Agencies Corbis and Getty File Amicus Briefs in Support of Patrick Cariou |
 Business Insider | This Tiny Arab Kingdom Has Emerged As The World's Leading Modern Art Collector Business Insider Not only is the country amassing art at a tremendous speed, it's also investing heavily in several major projects, including exhibitions by Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, The Art Newspaper reported. The Arab emirate also pulled off a major coup last ... |
It's the season for buying art Business Standard I took visitors frequently to the Other Criteria pavilion at the India Art Fair because it gave me a chance to pore over Damien Hirst's edition pieces. Not too many gave the beautifully foiled skull lithographs, or his pharmacy cabinets, ... |
 The Beat | The Legal View: Costumes, Cars and Copyright The Beat Thus, a court found artist Jeff Koons liable for infringing the copyright on a photograph of puppies when he made a sculpture expressly based on this picture. However, there is an exception to this general rule. The existence of a two-dimensional ... |
Follow us on Facebook and get updates from The Life posted directly to your ... Business Insider Details have emerged as art world insiders head to Doha for the opening of a major Takashi Murakami exhibit, according to VF. The Cézanne previously belonged to Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos, who died late last year. Before his death, two art ... |
 ARTINFO | When Judges Are Determining Whether Or Not Art Should Exist... We Have A Problem Techdirt We've written about the somewhat horrifying ruling in the Richard Prince appropriation art case before. If you haven't been following the details, Prince is an appropriation artist, who takes works he finds elsewhere, and modifies and transforms them ... Is Prince v. Cariou Already Having a Chilling Effect? Contemporary Artists Speak |
 Tehelka | Jitish makes alocal Call Tehelka There are very few joyous entities like the young man hanging out near the gates of the recent India Art Fair selling coloured thermocol discs and shiny tiffin boxes as 'authentic replicas' of Anish Kapoor and Subodh Gupta. The surprise should be that ... |
 National Post | Five things to do this week: Feb. 4-10 National Post Second on the slate is Peter Doig, Sarah Anne Johnson and Tim Gardner's Spectral Landscape show, which takes rugged hinterland photography worthy of the Group of Seven and turns its unknowable-nature thesis on its head with sublime “interruptions” and ... |