Sentences with phrase «auction houses move»

Over the holiday, Georgina Adam had a recap of the year's major art market events that concluded with this observation that may end up being far more important than any of the auction house moves.

Not exact matches

Biker gangs and the Mafia own galleries and move stolen paintings and forgeries to one another through auction houses, which turn a blind eye to the proceedings and quietly pocket their commissions.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Long standing auction house A.J. Wilner is preparing to move some heavy - metal for the U.S. Marshals Service in Lodi, New Jersey.

Matthew Haley, head of rare books and manuscripts at the Bonhams auction house in London, said that news of rare books moves faster and wider than ever before and that this is driving up prices at the high end of the book market, while Internet shopping was helping the lower end.

You could enable Action Cards for some chaotic moves to be made, rules like extra money when landing on go or being forced to auction properties, or — if you're sadistic enough — apply House rules that can extend the length of the game by several excruciating hours.

Moving more aggressively onto the turf of commercial galleries, Sotheby's is hiring Christy MacLear, the chief executive of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and before that the executive director of the Philip Johnson Glass House, to expand the auction house's advisory services for living artists and for artists» estates and foundatHouse, to expand the auction house's advisory services for living artists and for artists» estates and foundathouse's advisory services for living artists and for artists» estates and foundations.

Shiner, who has been at the helm of the Warhol Museum since 2008, has described the move from museum to auction house as a «natural transition»: «There's much more porosity in the art world now between the market, the collector base, galleries and the nonprofit world of museums,» he said.

It's a measure of how the market moves, how the economy moves, it also depends on how the auction houses do with those guarantees.

Jennifer Conner moved from Manhattan in 1997 when Sotheby's auction house transferred her from their New York office to become Senior VP & Head of Marketing for Europe.

First auction houses supersede galleries, then they move in on museums?

In February, West Berlin gallery ARNDT will be moving to a new space on Fasanenstrasse in Charlottenburg, which is the location of several traditional galleries and auction houses.

Late in the last decade, the auction houses made a conscious decision to relocate Chinese Contemporary art sales to Hong Kong in both an offensive and defensive move.

Smith was hired in March of 2015, then CEO of Madison Square Garden, to run the auction house, and he has moved to expand its range of offerings.

Complicating all this movement are the noncompete agreements, common in employment contracts, which force executives to wait for as much as a year before moving from one auction house to another.

The auction house quickly moved to hire Martin to provide museum - quality expertise.

Then yesterday afternoon, the auction house alerted clients by e-mail that it was moved to lot 8A, preceding other multimillion - dollar works by Rothko, Warhol and Richter.

In an unconventional move, not unlike Christie's decision to include an old - master work in its contemporary art evening sale on Wednesday — the rare Leonardo da Vinci painting that brought in $ 450.3 million, setting a new record for the highest amount ever paid for an artwork — the auction house included what it called «another great Italian export»: a race car.

The high - end items will probably continue to be sold through big auction houses, or via major galleries at the Art Fairs, where Gagosian, or David Zwirner write the rulebook; while the rest of the market could move online (luring the buyers offering purchase without premium, for example), but never entirely.

Sam Hunter, the exhibition would seem to announce the gallery's move into the blue - chip realm, and it covers thoroughly familiar ground under conditions whose crowding evokes an auction - house display.

When I moved my office to the house on the cliff, I started taking photos of the amazing sight before me, and I offered two lighthouse photos to our little Morton Library in Rhinecliff for a silent auction.