Sentences with phrase «wealthy collectors»

They don't work in the interest of the artists — they work in the interest of wealthy collectors who are flipping art to make more money.

Ironically it was and wealthy collectors who sought these images for their collections.

*** Can we attract wealthy collectors to buy online and not need a gallery to where they can see even 3 - dimensional art?

In the same way, I know a bunch of wealthy collectors now.

They are found today among the Chinese national treasures and in museums and the homes of wealthy collectors.

His works, which were popular with collectors during his lifetime, also soared at auction before the recession, thanks to fresh attention from wealthy collectors in Russia and the Middle East.

High prices for famous 20th - century artworks driven by wealthy collectors from the US, Russia and the Middle East

For wealthy collectors of «Scooby - Doo» memorabilia or very small children that have yet to be exposed to a «Crash Bandicoot» - caliber action / adventure on PSOne.

Sean Kelly Gallery sold more than $ 1 million of sculptures by British artist Antony Gormley in less than three hours on March 3, as a week of art fairs in New York opened with a flurry of purchases by wealthy collectors.

Hunting scenes were popular with wealthy collectors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The building also sits near highly regarded dealerships such as David Zwirner and Sadie Coles, and near the five - star Connaught and Claridge's hotels, where many of the world's wealthiest collectors stay during sale weeks.

While the national news was weighted with stories of ever more black citizens assaulted or killed by abusive police — including in Miami this past August — the city was awash with reports of impossibly wealthy collectors buying impossibly expensive art during

Wealthy collectors snapped up a everything from a $ 10,000 painting by emerging Chinese artist Yuan Yuan to an 800,000 pounds ($ 1.3 million) for a scalpel blade painting by Damien Hirst.

A 2012 survey by Barclays Wealth and Investment Management and Ledbury Research showed that 21 percent of wealthy collectors invest in such treasures or financial security if conventional investments fail, and 18 percent said they are purely an investment.

Verdon draws upon the resources of the Diocesan Museum of Prato, a Tuscan city with a booming textile industry and many wealthy collectors who have lent their pieces to the museum.

It makes sense for Higgs, who once championed the Young British Artists in all their piss and elephant dung, before deriding those who blindly follow wealthy collectors, hoarders, and art advisors and before coming to America as director of White Columns.

For galleries with ambitions to be destinations for the world's wealthiest collectors working one's way up for Art Basel's outlier fairs and getting into the inner sanctum of Basel itself is a long journey.

Jed Perl fears wealthy collectors and compliant academics, but constructive, historically aware criticism pays off.

There is a tale, perhaps apocryphal, of a posse of wealthy collectors turning up, only to find that as they waited the artist had sneaked up behind them and urinated down the backs of their coats.

Tanner's considerable talent earned him critical acclaim and attracted wealthy collectors like American department store mogul Rodman Wannamaker, who was so impressed with the artist's work, he paid for Tanner's trip to North Africa and the Middle East.

The goal was to generate more domestic interest in the artists of Asia among the newly wealthy collectors of China.

Wealthy collectors remain the primary engine of the movement's reappraisal, but small, contemporary galleries are also taking up the charge.

A high - performing art dealer, Brown sells art that reliably increases in value, regardless of the general economic conditions, as a hedge to diversify the portfolios of his unimaginably wealthy collectors.

The fame that he pursued relentlessly and recklessly throughout his brief career seems secure, buoyed by museum retrospectives, films, books, sympathetic critics and a bounty of supremely wealthy collectors, who now buy major works by him for $ 20 million or more.

The Americans are coming partly because wealthy collectors from Russia, India or the Middle East prefer to be in London, rather than in New York; so inevitably, some of that wealth will be diverted.

Wealthy collectors focused on masterpieces by blue - chip artists.

Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park today opens to select wealthy collectors seeking to snap up artworks by contemporary stars and Old Masters.

Damien Hirst, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol works sold for more than # 1.8 million each as wealthy collectors got first dibs at the opening of the Frieze Art Fair in London.

Whether wealthy collectors should be curating vanity exhibitions from their private collections for publicly funded museums (thereby increasing the value of the work) is a controversial question, but there's plenty of good work on view — Leonardo Drew's cotton and wax sculpture Untitled # 25, several of Nick Cave's Soundsuits, and a large - scale Kara Walker silhouette are all included.

The Salames, Beirut - based fashion retailers, are among wealthy collectors who snapped up gargantuan paintings, sculptures, and other showstopping installations at the art fair's Unlimited section, which is dedicated to large - scale pieces that in the past often didn't find buyers.

On Wednesday, wealthy collectors grabbed paintings and sculptures by blue - chip and emerging artists at the start of the 14th edition of the largest art fair in the U.S..

«The time - crunched new wealthy collectors aren't going to spend weekends going to every gallery in town.

Dozens of wealthy collectors want to buy her latest works, yet none is for sale — at least, not to private individuals.

The scene then switches to the more fashion - conscious Nikki Two, lounging in a Venetian water taxi on her way to stay with wealthy collectors and visit the Venice Film Festival.

It is believed that more than half the money was raised from wealthy collectors who themselves owned works by Ofili.

Any lingering concerns about the change in the fair's dates — moved up from May to March, and starting on Friday instead of Wednesday — were addressed during the brief, three - hour V.I.P. preview on the first day, with what many veteran attendees said were larger - than - usual crowds of wealthy collectors and delegations from major art institutions around the world.

Fine wine is now the best - performing collectible of the world's wealthy collectors, with values soaring 25 % over the past 12 months, according to a new report.

After a disastrous concert given by Adrian, she takes a liking to him, convincing Porter (Zak Orth), a wealthy collector, to fund an original work by him.

The 50 - year - old recently wrapped up filming the Coen Brothers penned comedy «Gambit», about an art curator who enlists the services of a Texas steer roper to con a wealthy collector into buying a phony Monet painting.

What's more, if you're a wealthy collector you can still take your chance to buy it and put it into storage as part of your retirement fund.

Do you mean if you want to be taken seriously by the famous critics and wealthy collectors, or do you mean if you want to make a living as an artist?

Dia's incredible vision belongs to a former Soho dealer and a wealthy collector, and it leans heavily to the heavy.

Think of several strategies for a wealthy collector — or maybe temptations.

The sales at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips suggested the world's wealthiest collectors were eager enough to spend money in London.

And if the wealthy collectors don't have the time to hop on a plane to London or Hong Kong to pick up El Anatsui «s new wall sculpture, or a coveted Anish Kapoor reflective concave disk, then their art advisors will make the trip on their behalf.

After all, wealthy collectors, comfortable with formal abstraction, may not want to buy it.

This somewhat unlikely location ultimately provokes thoughts of the wealthy collectors fueling today's raging art market; one can not ignore the excitement nor the bawdy allusion to sex - in - the - studio during a casual visit from a potential buyer.

Here, the material divide between the everyday image on the computer screen and the deliberately ostentatious product (destined, one imagines, for the wealthy collector) ends up reinforcing a social divide Arcangel elsewhere subverts.

Not a bad recipe for success, just as for the Young British Artists or for Jeff Koons in curating another wealthy collector's cavemen and car wrecks.