The article below is on the London Newspaper (6-Feb. 2007) worte by KATHARINA HIBBERT
DEGAS' classic ballerina work is to line up with Banksy's more contemporary take on the dancers in day two of the world's biggest ever art sale.
The work is among hundreds of pieces going under the hummer in London in a record-breaking auction set to top £500 million. Sotheby's and Christie's are wall to wall with billionaires set to snap up museum-quality art work on display.
Almost £100 million changed hands in three hoursat a frenzied Sotheby's last night, a European record.
One impressionist master-piece, L'Homme au Foulard Rouge by Chain Soutine, sold for almost £9 million, the highest price in the sale.
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Interesting enough, it seems "Banksy art" almost become part of "High Art".
Sunday 11 February 2007
Saturday 10 February 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
NEW WAVE ART TERRORISTS HIT BOSTON AGAIN
Police in Boston, still shaken by the Aquateens attack, are already arresting people for possession of spray paint and driving while artistic. It's all about a big international gathering of graffiti artists scheduled for tonight.
... Organizers of tonight's event -- who have advertised that the event will feature water-based graffiti art painted live on models -- insisted that they were not trying to drum up publicity for their show or to encourage illegal graffiti around the region. They said the event was drawing artists from across the country, Europe, and South America.
"I sympathize [with the police], because for them, they feel like there's a bunch of graffiti writers getting together, so Fort Point is going to be destroyed," said one organizer, Curtis McMillan, an online gallery owner who said he hoped that tonight's event would help raise money for legitimate gallery space for graffiti artists.
"That's some negative attention," Charlie Levine, who owns
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