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The 2006 Top 10 Collectors
For more information on these collectors, plus the rest of the list, please click the image to see the Top 200 “Collectors are suffering from cognitive dissonance,” said Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas...
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The Branding of Damien Hirst
For the Love of God, 2007, made of platinum, diamonds, and human teeth. ©DAMIEN HIRST/PRUDENCE CUMING ASSOCIATES LTD./COURTESY SCIENCE LTD. AND JAY JOPLING/WHITE CUBE, LONDON This past summer Damien...
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$25 Billion and Counting
The market for contemporary Indian art has "really heated up," says Sundaram Tagore, who has galleries in New York and Beverly Hills and a Hong Kong branch opening soon. Here, Natvar Bhavsar’s Nandaa,...
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The Chinese Art Explosion
Li Wei performing Mirror at the opening of ART HK 08, the Hong Kong International Art Fair, in May. COURTESY ART HK 08 The market for Chinese contemporary art has developed at a feverish pace, becoming...
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The 2009 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors
To see the Top Ten collectors from this list, please click here. Juan Abelló Madrid Finance and industry Spanish Old Masters; modern and contemporary art, especially Spanish Roman Abramovich London;...
View ArticleSaatchi’s Answers Raise Questions
NEW YORK—Charles Saatchi, the art collector and former advertising mogul, is famed almost as much for his reclusiveness as for his ability to jumpstart—or stall—artists’ careers. In a new book, My Name...
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Kate MccGwire–Let’s Get Feathering!
‘Let’s get feathering!” reads a note on the wall in the moored Thames River barge that serves as British sculptor Kate MccGwire’s studio. Feathers are the 49-year-old artist’s current medium of choice,...
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Young British Artist Hits Middle Age: Catching up with Marc Quinn
One has a strange sense of déjà vu upon meeting British artist Marc Quinn. His head—or, rather, a frozen sculpture of it cast from his own blood—has become an iconic image of contemporary art, etched...
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Down and Out and Back Again: Richard Billingham’s Photographic Past Takes on...
Richard Billingham, Untitled, 1995, color photograph mounted on aluminum. ©RICHARD BILLINGHAM/COURTESY ANTHONY REYNOLDS GALLERY, LONDON Richard Billingham’s blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic...
View ArticleCharles Saatchi’s Daughter to Open Huge Gallery in London Dedicated to...
Phoebe Saatchi Yates, daughter of advertising mogul turned collector Charles Saatchi, is following in her famous father’s footsteps with the launch of a new gallery in London. Saatchi Yates and her...
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