Tag: Art market
Valuable painting: expert discovers Brueghel painting in living room
Room by room, the art historian Malo de Lussac went through the home of a family near the French city of Tours to make an inventory of their belongings. He…
Open-Westend: Munich artists invite you to their studios – Munich
It’s fascinating what artificial intelligence can already do. Or what Moritz Pongratz taught her. The communications jack-of-all-trades developed an app and trained it to create every conceivable object in the…
Munich: what the minister learns from the sculptor – Munich
Tony Cragg can call himself Sir, the Queen knighted him in 2002. He has received countless awards as a sculptor and the prices his work fetches from collectors are equally…
The auction house Karl & Faber in Munich turns 100 – Munich
In the summer of 1989, a young couple from Munich discovered a crate of books on a street in Schwabing that had obviously been put there with the bulky waste.…
Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton dot the world: art or commerce? – Culture
As an artist she left Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter behind ten years ago. Yayoi Kusama is currently transforming Louis Vuitton stores into works of art. A tour…
Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton dot the world. art or commerce? – Culture
As an artist she left Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter behind ten years ago. Yayoi Kusama is currently transforming Louis Vuitton stores into works of art. A tour…
“Tim in America”: Auction in Paris – Culture
This Friday there will probably be a new world record in Paris: the original drawing of the title motif of Hergé’s album “Tim in America” from 1942 will be sold…
Amiens reclaims paintings of Madonna – Culture
March 21, 1918: The northern French city of Amiens was under German bombardment for a month. The works of art from the Musée de Picardie are brought to safety, including…
Let’s talk about money with Philipp Demandt – Economy
As director of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Phillipp Demandt oversees art treasures worth billions. A conversation about excesses in the art market, status symbols and what constitutes real generosity.…
Conference “Future of Criticism” – Culture
It’s nice that in times of great crises there is at least one tiny good crisis: the crisis of art criticism. That was roughly the starting point of the highly…