“In 2010 his work sold for a total of $313m and accounted for 17% of all contemporary auction sales. This was a 229% increase on the previous year–nothing bounced out of recession quite like a Warhol. But perhaps the most significant figure is the rise in his average auction prices between 1985 and the end of 2010: 3,400%. The contemporary-art market as a whole rose by about half that, the Dow by about a fifth.”
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Nothing Happened In The U.S. Before Warhol. For Real?
“Sara Friedlander, the 27-year-old head of First Open Sale at Christie’s in New York, has a startling view of American art history. … There was, in this view, no American Titian or Picasso, Raphael or Matisse. And then, suddenly, on July 9th 1962, there was. That was the date of the first solo show by Andy Warhol.”
Making A Panterragaffe (A What? And Why?)
“None of us are the ‘let’s ask for permission’ types. Our biggest problem isn’t deciding what we can do, it’s having the time to do all the things we know we CAN do. Panterragaffe was conceived from the beginning as a public exhibition piece. Its purpose had shock value and public participation in mind from the start.”
Oregon Symphony Finishes Year In The Black
For the second year in a row revenues have exceeded expenses, despite the additional cost of taking the orchestra to New York’s Spring for Music festival and making a recording of the Carnegie Hall program.
For Better Research, Stop And Smell The (Non-Existent) Horse Manure
“Just over a century ago the world’s greatest thinkers agreed that a big problem of the future would be the accumulation of horse dung, caused by the transport needs of a ballooning population: See how unimaginative we are in predicting genuinely new things and their effects on how we live?”
Books Mean More Than Units Moved – In Some Places, They Still Mean Freedom
In Islamabad, a half-hidden culture of openness and ideas – and things like Playboy interviews – flourishes in secondhand bookshops.
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About British Architecture, And Then Some
The Guardian (UK)’s guide to British architecture praises (and attacks) brutalism; explains what Georgian really means; delineates modernism and post-modernism … and so much more.