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Picasso portrait fetches £8.1m at Christie’s auction
Share A Picasso masterpiece unseen in public for 43 years has gone under the hammer at auctioneers Christie’s for £8.1m. Tete de Femme (Jacqueline) had been expected to fetch £3m-£4m at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London. The painting, never offered at auction before, had remained in the same collection since 1981. Christie’s would not... »
Modern Art Is Rubbish
ShareArtist Michael Landy, who destroyed all of his possessions for an installation in 2001, plays with ideas of what art should be and whether permanence matters. For his latest project he is asking artists, both known and unknown, to give him their failed works, so he can display them in a big bin and destroy... »
Edition Handdruck
When did you first become interested in art? I remember a fascination with images since I was a kid when I was learning to read and got my first illustrated books . At that time I started to draw horses by trying to copy my toys. I got aware that there is something like art... »
Record prices mark art sale boom
Share A sale of Impressionist and Modern Art fetched more than than $180m (£108m) at an auction house in New York, marking an unexpected boom in the market. Top of the lots was a bronze sculpture by Italian artist Alberto Giacometti which fetched more than $19m (£11.4), soaring above a $12m (£7.2m) estimate. Artwork by Picasso and... »
Intentism movement holds conference in Soho, London
Share (post contains male nudity) St. Anne’s, 55 Dean Street, Soho will show new paintings, sculpture, photography and music from the Intentist group on Saturday the 24th October, 2009 at 7pm. Intentism (www.intentism.com) is a new movement that celebrates the artist’s intentions in the work and visually keeps elements of every editing decision... »
UK pins Venice hopes on McQueen
Artist and film-maker Steve McQueen is representing Britain at the world's most prestigious modern art exhibition, the Venice Biennale. »
Crystal cave up for Turner Prize
Artists nominated for this year's modern art prize include a wall painter and cave creator. »





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