Sotheby’s has previewed Frieze Los Angeles, which takes place from February 29th – March 3rd, 2024 at Santa Monica Airport. The fair returns to Santa Monica Airport for its fifth edition with new public spaces, a new Focus curator, and new local and international exhibitors. A Letter from Sotheby’s Elizabeth Beaman, Senior Vice President, Head of Southern California, said: “Los Angeles has truly become the other art world capital of the United States. While L.A....
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival featured the launch of an especially curated presentation of works by Damien Hirst at the iconic Hôtel Martinez Cannes: Interactions: Damien Hirst at the Martinez. The exhibition features 20 artworks including examples of the artist’s acclaimed pipe cleaner animals, his Colour Chart and Colour Space series, and sculptures from Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, an ambitious project which was almost ten years in the making, and first shown in 2017 across...
Controversial artist Damien Hirst has a long history of subverting the art establishment, and is continuing the trend by opening his own exhibition of more than 50 early works at his Newport Street Gallery in south London next week. The exhibition, titled End of a Century runs from October 7th 2020 to March 7th 2021, and features works from the 1980s and 1990s – the infamous ‘pickled shark’ era when Hirst achieved fame as one...
The organisers of the Turner Prize have announced the cancellation of his year’s edition. Instead, 10 bursaries of £10,000 will be awarded to selected artists. Normally, the shortlist for the controversial modern art prize would have been announced by organisers Tate Britain at this time of year, usually to the bafflement and derision of the public. An exhibition would have opened in the autumn with the winner of the £25,000 prize announced in December. Alex...
As part of its ongoing $690 million plan to completely reimagine the property, Palms Casino Resort (“Palms”) has unveiled the Empathy Suite, a Sky Villa designed by and featuring the works of world-renowned artist Damien Hirst. With many original pieces from some of Hirst’s most notable series, a custom butterfly-motif mosaic tiled cantilevered pool overlooking the Las Vegas Strip and Venus grey marble featured throughout the villa, this 9,000 square-foot, two-story hotel suite is the...
An eye for quality and patience are crucial for high net worth individuals looking to start investing in art. Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev thought he grossly overpaid when he purchased Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (c.1490) from Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier for $127.5 million in 2013—Bouvier reportedly ‘only’ paid around $75 million for it. However, at one of the most publicised auctions to date, da Vinci’s masterpiece fetched in excess of $450 million at...
New York-based Aby Rosen, collector of art pieces by Warhol and Hirst and more, talks about the ebb and flow of his outstanding collection of famous contemporary art, the trends and what inspires him to buy and sell in particular Warhol and Hirst. In real estate, they say that three things matter: location, location and location. Aby Rosen’s best-known buildings stand across from each other on Manhattan’s Park Avenue—the 1959 Seagram’s Building by Ludwig Mies van...
