Two out of the three artists on Artprice's top ten list of best
auction results generated by Japanese artists (August 2011) are contemporary: Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama.
Not exact matches
The
auction results can affect the New Zealand dollar as the dairy sector
generates more than 7 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
The opening evening sale of works from The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller
generated huge international interest, which
resulted in new world
auction records being set for a number of the most revered artists of the past 150 years.
BMI Research said: «By securing power purchase agreements via the
auction, the wind projects developed will have a guarantee that the power they
generate will be bought by a utility — a guarantee that has previously been missing and
resulted in numerous projects lying idle, struggling to find buyers.»
As a
result,
auctions for solar power in Texas recently have seen prices as low as 4 cents per kilowatt hour, below the price of most coal -
generated energy.