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Thanks for visiting!A graffiti artist, famous for his invisibility in person and a very visible art profile on the walls of London, has done 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 resulted […]

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 graffiti […]

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 for close […]

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 […]

Sculptures Stolen for the Copper
 
 
This story doesn’t exactly belong to the category of “art found at the wrong place”, but should serve as an awareness piece: if you see something dismantled - pay attention.
Sometimes people throw things away without realizing their artistic value, sometimes - they know the value, but sell it cheap: for the […]

While we are on the subject of lists and the things accomplished, here is what art world has to say:
 
“Sotheby’s, the world’s second-largest auction house, sold about 46 percent more art this year…Sotheby’s art auctions in 2007 totaled $5.33 billion, up from $3.66 billion a year earlier…Contemporary art sales in New York in November more […]

Russia’s after-perestroika life with its adjustments to the capitalism, world market, freedom of speech and expression, mushrooming list of billionaires and oligarchs, attracts the attention once again.
 
Russia’s artists’ group “Blue Noses” presents a controversial work of art, which has world talking.
The Web page of the “Blue noses” art group features a picture of four people […]

On November 21, I wrote about the painting found in a pile of trash. Today, I’d like to add a bit more on that subject.
In the end of December of 2000, the world of San Francisco’s artist, Vladimir Vitkovsky, was jolted and nearly shattered by the news that one of his paintings was anonymously donated […]

This kind of stories just keep coming up.
A couple of months ago the story surfaced about a woman, who (4 years ago) went for a coffee. She happenned to walk by a dumpster, and, instead of distancing herself from such an unpleasant place, she actually looked at it. And, guess what? There, amidst the junk, […]