by Christopher Hudgens | Aug 30, 2007 | Blog
An unnamed investment group has agreed to pay $100 million in cash for the final piece of Daimen Hirst’s June 3rd show at London’s White Cube Gallery. The platinum skull, studded with 8,601 diamonds was the final piece and brings the 2 gallery exhibition...
by Brian Andrews | Jul 25, 2007 | Blog
In NYC, a filmmaker/games designer committed suicide last week. Her companion, a well-known contemporary abstract artist, has gone missing for 8 days and is presumed dead: . . . . The filmmaker, Theresa Duncan, 40, who has also drawn attention for her writings on...
by Christopher Hudgens | Jul 25, 2007 | Blog
By Daniel Jeffreys in Seoul Imagine an attractive and talented young woman who said she had an art history doctorate from Oxford. Vivacious and persuasive, she becomes the director of the Tate Gallery. Then, just after being hired to curate the Royal Academy’s...
by Christopher Hudgens | Jul 24, 2007 | Blog
Rindy Sam a french artist has taken it upon herself to add to the Cy Twombly cannon by placing a deep red lipstick kiss on an unnamed 9’x6′ painting valued at more than $2m (£970,000). Ms Rindy has been charged with criminal damage after kissing it and...
by Christopher Hudgens | Jun 14, 2007 | Blog
There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple too. And up in the nursery an ubsurd little bird Is popping out to say cook-coo cook-coo, cook-coo Regretfully they tell us cook-coo But firmly they compell us cook-coo To say...
