Het Russische gerechtshof heeft twee mannen tot een boete veroordeeld, omdat zij met hun expositie Forbidden Art uit 2007 mensen hebben willen aanzetten tot haat. Dit maakten lokale media maandag bekend.
Kunstexpert Andrej Jerofeiev kreeg een boete van 200.000 roebels (ruim 5100 euro) en museumdirecteur Joeri Samodoerov werd veroordeeld tot het betalen van 15.000 roebels (bijna 3900 euro). Door de aanklager was een gevangenisstraf van drie jaar geëist. De rechtszaak begon al in april 2009.
Archief voor de maand juli, 2010
Gilbert & George’s only major paintings go on display in Netherlands – The Art Newspaper
7 juli 2010Huge series of triptychs may be sold to Dutch museum. British artist duo Gilbert & George are likely to sell a monumental early work that has remained in their personal collection since it was made in 1971—a set of six triptychs that together total nearly 30 metres in length. The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, is to borrow The Paintings (With Us in the Nature)—the only major paintings ever made by the artists—and it hopes to then raise the money to buy the work.
Topinkomens stuwen kunstprijzen – NU.nl
7 juli 2010Topinkomens hebben een grote invloed op kunstprijzen. Dat blijkt uit een recent onderzoek van de economen Luc Renneboog, William Goetzmann en Christophe Spaenjers, die dit verschijnsel in hun paper ‘Art and Money’ beschrijven.
Distrust of markets fuels growth in passion investments. Millionaires are putting more money in art than ever before, according to a new report by Capgemini SA and Merrill Lynch & Co. The number of millionaires in the world grew by 17% last year and, with financial markets still in flux, art has emerged as the most popular category of “passion investment” according to Capgemini’s Ileana van der Linde who managed the research. “There has been a real shift in psyche,” said Van der Linde. “There is major distrust of financial markets and regulatory bodies, and people are looking to put their cash into tangible assets.The World Wealth Report 2010 surveyed 1,200 wealth managers who represent 150,00 clients across 71 countries, and found that the world’s wealthy dedicate around a third of their overall holdings to passion investments. Over a quarter of those surveyed, 29.8%, said art was the top choice of passion investment for financial gain, said Van der Linde.
Christie’s more adventurous sale encourages bidding but market remains vulnerable. On paper, Sotheby’s and Christie’s end-of-season evening contemporary sales (28 and 30 June) look broadly similar. Both sales’ totals came in at a similar level and at the low end of expectations—£41.1m at Sotheby’s against an estimate of £38.3m-£52.8m; £45.6m at Christie’s against an estimate of £39.9m-£56.6m—and with 83% and 84% of works sold respectively. But perhaps the most telling statistic is that while Sotheby’s sale showed a healthy 60% improvement on the previous year’s equivalent sale, Christie’s managed to beat the nervous 2009 market by a whopping 139%.
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