Jerry Hall to Shed Her Art Collection Next Week at Sotheby’s

LONDON (AP).- Model Jerry Hall will auction some of her art collection next week, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant. The auction will also include works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, David Bailey and other prominent artists collected by Hall, ex-wife of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. The works will be sold Oct. 15-16 as part of a larger contemporary art sale, Sotheby’s spokesman Simon Warren said. US model [...]

Damien Hirst Fills the Paul Stolper Gallery with 120 Framed, Foilblock Butterfly Prints

LONDON.- Paul Stolper and Other Criteria present the launch of ‘The Souls’ by Damien Hirst. For this landmark project, Hirst has intensified his career‐long fascination with the beauty, fragility and symbolism of butterflies to create a spectacular and multi‐allusive evocation of mortality. More than that of any contemporary artist, and in a modern lineage that includes the work of Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, the art of Damien Hirst confronts the balances between life and death, vanity and transience, value [...]

Fine Art Asia 2010: A Bridge between Tradition and Modernity

HONG KONG.- Fine Art Asia 2010 returns to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 3-6 October 2010. The fair is now recognized as Asia’s premier annual art fair presenting a unique combination of Art and Antiques. Rare Himalayan bronzes, Chinese ceramics and works of art, furniture, textiles and jades will be featured in the Antiques section; while this year the Art section has expanded to showcase an exceptional selection of art from the 17th century to the present [...]

Christie’s to Host an Exciting Series of Auctions, Exhibitions and Events During “Frieze Week”

LONDON.- Christie’s announce an exciting series of public exhibitions, events and auctions from 10 October to 18 October in London coinciding with the Frieze Art Fair. The week will be highlighted by the Post-War & Contemporary Evening Auction and The Italian Sale on 14 October at 6.30pm, which will offer 51 and 45 lots accordingly and which will include an extremely strong section of photography, and the most important work by Damien Hirst to be offered at auction since September [...]

Talking about Creativity: Rodin, Cellini and Picasso

Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing. The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating “from nothing” in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class. [from Wikipedia] Creativity is like sex. You fumble your way through, you get lost in [...]

Yeah, We killed the golden goose

I read recently of someone having a pop at Damien Hirst because he is laying off staff, the same article refers to “Sliced up cows”, it states how much money Hirst has supposedly to have made from such, another article tells us about his plans for his own gallery in Hyde park. My take on all this is as follows, Multinationals with very deep pockets are always laying people off, no one can, or wants to “Keep paying” when the in coming [...]

Exhibition of Photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd Opens at the Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Johnnie Shand Kydd is an acclaimed documentary photographer perhaps best known for his portraits of artist friends such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. In 2000 he embarked on a longterm project to capture the dramatic and chaotic world of Naples. Having never visited the city before, he soon developed a relationship with it that he described as ‘akin to a drug habit’, returning again and again over the next eight years. Naples is known as the ‘Siren City’ [...]

Excellent Sales and Buoyant Atmosphere Reported at Inaugural Art Antiques London Fair

LONDON.- Art Antiques London opened its doors to the public on June 10th, following a highly successful private preview and glamorous First Night Party in aid of The Bush Theatre on 9th June. The two events attracted around 1,800 people. The Fair, which won plaudits for its spacious and elegant presentation, played host to 63 international specialists from a wide range of disciplines. The Fair was busy from the outset and maintained a steady flow of visitors throughout. The final [...]

British Sculptor Antony Gormley Eyes Public Art in Asia

HONG KONG (REUTERS).- British sculptor Antony Gormley wants to leave more of his artistic legacy in Asia and particularly in China which he says stands to play an increasingly vibrant role in the contemporary art world. Gormley is best known for public works such as “Habitat,” a giant humanoid sculpture in Alaska, “Event Horizon,” a group of 31 sculptures in his own likeness scattered about New York, “Asian Field” of 180,000 clay figurines, and “Drift,” a suspended geometric lattice in [...]

Four Nominees Announced to Compete for Britain’s Turner Prize

LONDON (REUTERS).- Berlin-based Susan Philipsz, whose artworks center around recordings of her voice singing folk songs in public spaces, is one of the four nominees for Britain’s top art award. The Turner Prize, awarded to British artists under the age of 50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation, is handed out annually and traditionally attracts popular debate about the nature and role of art. Philipsz, 44, was nominated for presentations of her work at the International Festival of Visual [...]

Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst at Musée Maillol

PARIS.- Olivier Lorquin, president of the Fondation Dina Vierny – Musée Maillol, in October 2009 appointed Patrizia Nitti as art director of the institution. The first exhibition to be curated by her is « C’est la vie ! – Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst » ( That’s Life ! – Vanities from Caravaggio to Damien Hirst). It will present about 160 works : paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, jewelry, objects… Damien Hirst’s diamond encrusted skull, the first icon of the [...]

Whitworth Art Gallery to Host First Major UK Exhibition of Artists’ Wallpapers

MANCHESTER.- The first major UK exhibition of artists’ wallpapers with work by over 30 artists including Andy Warhol, Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. Kitch ideas of home decoration are turned upside down as artists subvert the stereotypes of wallpaper to hit home messages about warfare, racism, cultural conflicts and gender. The exhibition is grouped around themes: subversion, commodification, imprisonment and sexuality. In Sonia Boyce’s work Clapping, a feeling of claustrophobia and menace is strengthened by the repeated design of the [...]