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Do you think you have an eye for art? Have you ever experienced a feeling, where you just couldn’t tear yourself off the art gallery’s window and wished you had enough money to buy the painting displayed there? Have you ever regretted of not living in France, at the rise of the expressionists movement and [...]

One more interesting find for the art appreciating crowd and the collectors of Asian art alike, appeared briefly to be admired at Christie’s action house and was sold for a record for Japanese art sum: $14.3 millions.   An elegant wooden statue (believed to be 800 years old) of Buddha, bearing additional treasures entombed in [...]

On Tuesday I went to see the Bouquets to Art exhibition. There was an abundance of flowers and people. I have to tell you, that not all paintings had flowers dedicated to them, and not all flower arrangements were dedicated to paintings.   There were many free standing bouquets and flower-accented sculpture-like fabrications, which included [...]

For those of you, who lives in San Francisco and Bay Area (or visiting next week), I’d like to remind you, that de Young Museum is presenting it’s annual (24th) event of art and flower arranging, “Bouquets to Art” 2008.   What is it? The show presents floral arrangements, which create allegories between paintings and [...]

Accidental Investment Results in Occidental Graffiti Worth 1,000,000 euro     I think you have to be really open minded to invite a bunch of teenagers to paint anything at all, and on a top of it to give them a free rein on creativity and promise a rave on the premises. Would you do it? You [...]

A graffiti artist, famous for his invisibility in person and a very visible art profile on the walls of London, has done it again: attracted attention to his painting. Banksy’s graffiti, which is protected by a few city organizations, got painted over with a white paint. While those involved were deciding how to get it [...]

How would you feel, if the object of art you own, was estimated to be worth a couple of hundred dollars and sold for twenty times more? Happy? And how would you feel, if the trusted professional, who helped you to unload that now sorely missed artifact, had made a mistake in estimating it, which [...]

A work by graffiti artist Banksy has sold. I wrote about it being on the eBay earlier . A piece of the wall with the graffiti on it is sold on eBay for approx. $407,000. The successful bidder will have to find a way to cut out the part of a concrete wall so the [...]

You know what graffiti is, right? Have you ever heard of Banksy? Neither am I, but today I found an article about both, and have a hard time comprehending the logic of the throng, which admires and promotes this thing and this man.   The work by the graffiti artist Banksy is offered on eBay [...]

If you pay any attention to the art auctions, you’d remember a few things, which highlighted last year’s art market. I wrote about most of them in my daily posts. Bornrich blog came up with an interesting “Top 10 Most Hyped Auction Sales of 2007″ article. They list most memorable art and historical items which were auctioned [...]