More than once Rockwell fled to Paris to try art for art's sake.
Unlike other artists, Wiley is not interested in art for art's sake.
While museums, auctions, galleries, studios and international fairs are more integral to the art world, Miami Art Basel has become an annual touchpoint for talking about art to big audiences and for art collectors to strut their stuff.
The event kicked off a week that is synonymous with art and parties, as most of the art world clusters poolside for Art Basel, the Miami Beach edition, year number ten.
Such cases are exceptional, but as the market booms and the value of art increases, more art lovers will look for additional assurances that their art is really theirs.
In 2011, the country was responsible for 41% of the world's art sales, making it the biggest market for art for the second year running, according to market tracker Artprice.
It is commonplace now for a work of art to be worth tens of millions of dollars, and that makes them a target for art thieves.
Mr. Murphy said his salesrooms in New York and London also saw a 31% uptick in registered Asian bidders this season a sign that some Asian collectors may be migrating to Western art categories while values for Asian art recalibrate.
Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life.
He realized many people love art but never collect it because buying art for the first time is a daunting experience.
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The year 2010, in which China overtook Europe to become the second-largest art market after the United States, has been described as an annus mirabilis for Chinese art collecting as wealthy Chinese from all levels of the new society chose art and objects as tangible assets, suitable for investment, trading and bragging rights beyond simple display.
In May 2011 MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) announced that it had snapped up a controlling stake in ART HK, the biggest annual event for Hong Kong's art scene and perhaps for all of Asia's.
Designs for proposed new public art for a Dorset town centre have gone on show.
In 1993 paintings by a struggling, little-known 22-year-old, Jenny Saville, caught Saatchi's eye, and he set her up in a studio, paying her to work for a year making art for his gallery.
The sale to an anonymous buyer is a landmark moment for the London art market and establishes a record price for any Post-War work of art sold at auction in Europe.
Six of Japan's top art scholars selected pieces spanning 3, 000 years of Western art for reproduction.
In the 1960s, the State Department inaugurated a program called Art in Embassies, primarily as a vehicle to provide temporary art for ambassadors' residences during their diplomatic tenure.
The next round in the realist reputation match: "George Bellows, " a major new retrospective, opens June 10 at Washington's National Gallery of Art, traveling to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Nov. 15 opening before moving to London's Royal Academy of Arts next March.
Gormley's work is among a raft of art projects put forward by the British Council's latest venture, Art For A Dangerous World.
Should this idea catch on, it could be a stress-free, low-cost introduction into the art world for a younger generation who is interested in art, but might not yet have the financial means to do so normally.
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The International Foundation for Art Research, a New York nonprofit art law research outfit, has spent years updating and excerpting patrimony laws.
Sterling and Francine Clark turned down an offer from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1946 when they were looking for a home for their art collection, setting their sights instead on Williamstown.
She was a painter and suffered for her art rather than for her family.
The same would be true for the art being valued for the Panel.
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In 2009, Deutsche Bank signed a deal to be the lead sponsor for the Art HK fair for "up to five years, " according to the statement released at the time of announcement.
My articles cover everything from art investment funds and pension trusts for artists to art investment vacations, but also plenty of straight investment topics such as exchange-traded funds and municipal bond funds.
However, in addition to the more than 250 international art galleries displaying modern and contemporary art at the main fair, there are many other art related events for both seasoned veterans and novices that can be more enjoyable and easier to navigate.
"Art isn't just for someone in an art gallery, " said Ms. Schory.
Christie's and Sotheby's, in their neck-and-neck battle for art-world supremacy, continue to prove that art is a stellar investment in these volatile economic times.
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