Topic Archives: Acquisitions

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art recently unveiled blue-chip Indian artist Subodh Gupta’s Line of Control. The colossal sculpture displays a mushroom cloud made of pieces of steel kitchenware.

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Pieces from rising artist Hajra Waheed’s “Antranik Anouchian Passport Portrait Drawing series” were recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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The royal family of Qatar recently purchased Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than USD250 million, the most expensive art acquisition in history.

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According to The Art Newspaper, Large art is making a comeback. The resurgence of massive art comes on the crest of an increase in the number of gigantic gallery and museum spaces.

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The controversial Ullens Collection went on sale at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong on 3 April, 2011. Part of the spring auction season, what did the sale contribute to the 2011 total?

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Did Sotheby mirror their autumn 2010 auction success in their 2011 spring sales? Take a look at the results from the Asian Contemporary Art and Southeast Asian sales.

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Dubai gallery The Third Line announced in a recent newsletter that work by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Farmanfarmaian is a mosaic artist, often working mirrors, who has spent much of her prestigious artistic career in New York. She returned to Tehran in 2000 and continues her work from there. Continue reading →

EMERGING ARTISTS TAIWANESE ART MUSEUM SHOWS COLLECTIONS An exhibition exploring the theme of “post adolescence” is presenting 72 works by younger generation Taiwanese artists, those between 25-35 years of age, in an effort to reveal their art creation processes and … Continue reading →

INTERVIEW ASIAN ART MUSEUM CONTEMPORARY ART PAKISTANI ARTISTS Revolutions come far and few in between in the museum world. This season promises to be different. The Musée Guimet, France’s leading ancient Asian art museum, has opened its doors to contemporary Asian … Continue reading →

INDIAN ART AMERICAN ART MUSEUM COLLECTIONS This year, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has acquired three major works on loan from the Harmony Art Foundation: Anish Kapoor’s Halo (2006), Francis Newton Souza’s Birth (1955)and Paritosh Sen’s Amhedabad scene (1984). “We … Continue reading →

ART LENDING INDUSTRY: ARTTACTIC PODCAST REVIEW On October 13th, ArtTactic published there latest edition of the ongoing podcast series dedicated to art market topics. The new podcast titled “Art Lending Industry“ is an interview with Andrew Rose, the president of … Continue reading →

CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE ART Dinh Q. Le, a Vietnamese-American artist and collector, is touted as one of the world’s most acclaimed Vietnamese artists, and his work will be featured in a solo exhibition by  the Museum of Modern Art in New York … Continue reading →

JAPANESE ART COLLECTOR  A Japanese psychiatrist, Ryutaro Takahashi, has become one of the most important collectors of Japanese contemporary art, having amassed a collection of over 1,500 pieces since 1997. And, in an inspiring story we can all take heart from … Continue reading →

CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART Which artists from the Indian subcontinent are most likely to have a market in 10 years time?  Think about it for a moment and then compare your results with those below:       Top 5 Ranking: … Continue reading →

ISRAELI NEW MEDIA This year Israeli artist’s Guy Ben-Ner’s Moby Dick (2000) has been acquired by MOMA. Ben-Ner was born in 1969 and is resident in New York and Berlin. He represented Israel in Venice Biennale 2005. His art, resonant … Continue reading →

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS ARCO Madrid, one of the largest and most important international art fairs holds its 28th edition from 11 February to 16 February 2009  in a new location:  Halls 6, 8 & 10 at Feria de Madrid, Spain. … Continue reading →

SINGAPORE ARTIST LONDON MUSEUM Hong Kong-based and Singapore born artist and print maker Mona Choo has been awarded the first printmaking residency at the Victoria and Albert Museum in partnership with The London Print Studio and London Printworks Trust. The six … Continue reading →

    MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Helpful sources of objective and rigorous judgement, museums  provide an independent voice in an art world populated by more unscrupulous personalities and poor research than is ideal.  But how can we find out what the top museums are acquiring and what … Continue reading →

KOREAN ART Diverse works by 10 Korean contemporary artists including MOMA acquired artist Jung Yeon Doo are now on display for the exhibition To Have or To Be, organized by the Korea Foundation at Hong Kong Visual Arts until 4 December … Continue reading →

MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS Acquired as a gift by The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection: Akram Zaatari born 1966 Nature Morte, 2008 Video projection 11 minutes Dimensions variable Ed 2/5 + 1 AP Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg Akram … Continue reading →

ART FAIR SINGAPORE ARTSingapore 2008 has some important surprises in store says Asian Art News. There will be a new focus on art from Korea, India and Japan, first time gallery participants, a collector’s show of art never before displayed in … Continue reading →

          KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART Korean artists and galleries have made a huge impact on Beijing recently with the presence of PKM Gallery, Do Art and Arario Beijing in the Brewery International Art Garden says Theme magazine. … Continue reading →

  ACQUISITIONS MIDDLE EASTERN ART As financial markets roil , art collectors seeking a safe haven eye up opportunities in the Middle East. If anything, some players expect an even stronger market in the Middle East than in China, because so many of … Continue reading →

ARTIST TO WATCH As we scan the news every day, some new artists and new trends emerge out of the cloud of informaton bigger bolder and brighter than the rest. This is the first in an occasional series in which we beam … Continue reading →

INDIAN ART FOR FUND “Hoffman is something of a poster boy for art funds, and for the entire “art as an alternative asset class” discourse, doing annual trade of $120-130 million every year through the five funds he manages” says … Continue reading →