Cai Guo-Qiang, Inopportune: Stage One 2004. Image: national.gallery.ca

It is now the hottest art market in the world, with paintings changing hands for giddying sums. But could this sudden injection of cash stifle an art scene that is still in its infancy?

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From today’s New York Times:

Who wants to admit that “I’ve had these posters since college, I know that…I should get some real art, but I don’t know what that means”?

Read the full article right HERE

Tracey Emin with work from the 2007 Venice Biennale.  Image: zichi.blogspot.com

New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Image: artlex.com

1. Thomas Krens To Step Down As Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation:

Read it HERE at Artdaily.com

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Pixel power: Virtual art online commands high prices in the real world

An MFA graduate exhibition in Second Life. Image: www.deanterry.com

Second Life, the virtual world that mimics the real world, has held art auctions fetching big prices. And curiously “real world” galleries have sold artworks based on online creations — capturing the image, enhancing it and transferring it to canvas. (Those pieces reportedly sold for $10,000 each.)

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Why I collect: Collectors reveal what drives them – an excellent article from the Wall Street Journal:

For the full article, please click HERE

Oscar Neimayer, Novomuseu, Curibita, Brazil. Image: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz

For this year’s Sao Paolo Biennale (October - December 2008), director Ivo Mesquita has revealed that he intends to organise an exhibition with no works of art.

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Ivory from the Thompson Collection. Image: ft.com

A collection of Ivories from the Thompson Collection to be previewed at London’s Somerset House before coming to the Art Gallery of Ontario later this year.

“Ivories were the first works of art Thomson ever acquired back in the 1950s; he was attracted by their miniaturist craftsmanship and their intimate tactile quality. He bought Egyptian, Byzantine and Romanesque ivory carvings as well as Japanese Netsuke, Baroque ivories and ingenious machine-carved Cheverton portrait busts. Within this group, however, the holding of western medieval ivories ranks among the most important in the world – in or out of a museum…”

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Philippe de Montebello. Image: tfaoi.com

“it is the mystery, the wonder, the presence of the real that is our singular distinction and that we should proudly, joyfully proclaim.”
- Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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The 2007 Biennale curator shares the triumphs and frustrations of organizing the world’s most famous exhibition with the Art Newspaper:

Read the interview HERE.

Ettore Sottsass. Image: nyt.com

VoCA is saddened to hear of the passing of one of our favorite designers, Ettore Sottsass. He was 90 years old. The influential designer, photographer and founder of the Memphis design group had an exceptionally creative mind and outrageous design sensibility.

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Miami Beach Convention Center. Courtesy Art Basel Miami Beach. Image: shift.jp.org

The art world’s biggest party: Art Basel Miami Beach, December 6 – 9, 2007, is the fair that started it all.

Every year, there seem to be more fairs, more districts, more collections…Read the full Wall Street Journal article HERE

Image: thisisthelife.com

You’ll find these Canadian galleries in Miami this year:

SCOPE ART FAIR:
Angell Gallery (Toronto)
Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto)
Trepanier-Baer Gallery (Calgary)
Birch Libralato (Toronto)
Greener Pastures (Toronto)

PULSE ART FAIR:
artcore gallery/Fabrice Marcoloni (Toronto)
Nichoals Metivier Gallery (Toronto)

PHOTO MIAMI:
Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain (Montreal)
Skew Gallery (Calgary)

ART BASEL MIAMI:
Catriona Jeffries Gallery (Vancouver)
Landau Fine Art (Montreal)
Birch Libralato (Toronto)

BRIDGE ART FAIR:
Awol Gallery (Toronto)
Newzones (Calgary)

ART MIAMI:
Jennifer Kostuik Gallery (Vancouver)

AQUA ART MIAMI:
Aqua Hotel
Katharine Mulherin (Toronto)

Aqua Wynwood
Tracey Lawrence (Vancouver)
pm Gallery (Toronto)
Jessica Bradley Art & Projects (Toronto)

ART FAIR NOW:
Galerie Simon Blais (Montreal)

ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY ART DEALERS (AIPAD):
Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto)