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Culturekiosque Art Marketplace

Even art can be a business... Culturekiosque's editors comment on important auctions, art sales and other happenings in the art marketplace.

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The SF Fall Antiques Show Presents 'Treasure Tales' - A Lecture Series

Among the guest lecturers Archduke Dr. Géza von Habsburg discusses princely treasures from Kunstkammern, and former FBI Agent Robert Wittman shares tales of art heists and masterpieces that remain hidden.

Galerie Beyeler Closes: Holdings to be Auctioned in London

The sale of the Estate of Ernst Beyeler, the late Swiss art connoisseur and dealer will include art works Ernst and his wife Hildy lived with at their private home as well as significant paintings and sculptures from the Galerie Beyeler in Basel.

F.I.A.C. 2010

"Twenty-four countries and 195 art galleries were showing works which went from the absurd to the widely extravagant," writes Patricia Boccadoro from the annual art market show devoted to modern and contemporary art in Paris.

Online VIP Art Fair To Launch in January 2011

Will major collectors and dealers prefer instant messaging and virtual booths to private jets and extravagant parties in Basel, London and Miami Beach?

Giacometti Bronze Breaks Art Auction Record

Giacometti, Klimt and Cézanne headlined a record-breaking sale of art works totaling £146,828,350 / $235,659,502 / €167,575,324 - making it the highest value sale ever staged in London.

Matisse and Van Dongen Highlight Christie's Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art

The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and the auction of The Art of the Surreal have a pre-sale estimate of £56,505,000 to £80,805,000.

Swimming among the Sharks: The Art of Profiting off Contemporary Art

While there is undeniably big money to be made in the contemporary art market, it is rarely made by those who buy the works. Don Thompson's new book explores the labyrinthine and perilous path of art as investment.

Market Makers: Korean Eye: Moon Generation

Standard Chartered First Bank has teamed up with Phillips de Pury & Company’s auctioneers and the Saatchi Gallery in London to create a market in the West for Korean Contemporary Art.

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$1000 Banknote Sets World Record at Auction

Bidders from around the world witnessed Spink's sale of a $1,000 Straits Settlement banknote bring a new world record price for an Asian Banknote.

5,000-Year-Old Statue of Lioness Sells for $57.1 Million

Before the auction the 3 ¼ inch limestone treasure from ancient Sumer in Mesopotamia had been estimated at $14 -18 million.

Art Basel Miami Beach: Spectacle or Substance?

The lavish and somewhat baroque Art Basel Miami Beach continues its pitch as the North American winter edition of Art Basel. Book Tip: Geoffrey Bradfield: Defining Millennium Modern.
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