A Rare Duchamp Ready-Made (“Porte-bouteilles’’ ) to be Sold.September 12, 2016 One of 5 surviving “ready-made” sculptures by Marcel Duchamp will be offered for sale in October at a gallery in Paris. The piece, owned by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation will be the centerpiece of an exhibit at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. The … More… 
Artists, Don’t Destroy Your Works: Missing part of lost Magritte painting discoveredSeptember 8, 2016 This is a lesson for all you artists out there … see the problems you can cause when you reuse a canvas. Decades later people spend years looking for the ‘lost’ work! In this instance, Magritte cut up a painting (The … More… 
Christie’s Ups the Buyer’s PremiumSeptember 7, 2016 Back in July, Christie’s reported a sharp fall in their overall sales for the first half of 2016 … £2.1 billion vs. £2.9 billion for the same period in 2015. You can read more about that HERE. So, how are they going to fix that? … More… 
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 189 – The Bogus EmailSeptember 1, 2016 Source: Newsletter Archives – our most recent edition of Comments on the Art Market has been posted to our website. This month we cover the upcoming ARC Select Exhibition, Really!, Tales from the Dark Side, Stocks and The Art Market (Do You … More…
Some in the art world campaign for Hillary ClintonAugust 31, 2016 
Why Art Is Now Becoming More Intimate and PersonalAugust 30, 2016 A very recent article in Vogue on what is ‘vogue’ in the art world … small scale works of art. I am amused at what is considered small scale in certain areas of the ‘contemporary art world’ …. 60 x 40 … More… 
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