 11/17/06 HAVE YOU SCENE & HERD?
SCENE & HERD AT THE AUCTIONS Artforums online diary takes you behind the scene at New Yorks contemporary sales 11.17SARAH THORNTON at Christies The large sums commanded a respectful silence, but when the hammer came down at $24.2 million ($27 million with the buyers premium), the room erupted in chatter so loud that you could barely hear the increments of the next lot. It was a world auction record not only for the artist, but also for any postwar work of art READ ON http://www.artforum.com/diary/ 11.15SARAH THORNTON at Sothebys The laughs about last nights less-than-spectacular Contemporary Art Evening at Sothebys started a couple of weeks ago when the auction house spammed the art world with a guided video tour of the sales highlights, hosted by its star auctioneer and worldwide head of contemporary art, Tobias Meyer READ ON http://www.artforum.com/diary/ 11.14Linda Yablonsky on John Currin at Gagosian I really wanted to hate this stuff, one painter confessed. But I dont hate it. In fact, I love it. The size queens had a field day comparing everything from rumps to reputations. Someone insisted that Jeff Koons was so jealous that Currin had pulled off such a rub-your-face-in-it triumph that he had to leave READ ON http://www.artforum.com/diary/ ARTFORUM.COM EVERYWHERE THE ART IS |
