Mar 29, 2006
According to an article in the NY Times Chinese contemporary art is so hot Sotheby's has even formed a contemporary Asian art department. Local Chinese antiques dealers tell me the newly-wealthy Chinese are also buying antiques like there's no tomorrow.
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Mar 24, 2006
I think you have to register to read the Forbes Magazine site, but it's well worth it. They just posted a slideshow of six scandals "that shook the art world." Most interesting reading.
Mar 20, 2006
Art is supposed to make you expand your horizons, but making native masks out of Nikes really takes it to another level. Matthew Kangas says "Young people are storming the Vancouver Art Gallery in droves to see
"Brian Jungen," the show by the wildly popular Canadian artist who
makes Northwest Coast First Nations masks out of Michael Jordan Nike
sneakers." Read all about it in the Seattle Times.
Mar 11, 2006
Sheila Farr thinks Robin Held, Frye
Art Museum curator, is making a real difference. Read all about it
in the Seattle
Times.