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Review: The Beginnings of Divination

Reading the future and shunning possible mishaps is mankind’s oldest dream. In 16th-century Iran and Turkey, where Persian, the literary language of Iran, was also used at court, it inspired some of the most intriguing book paintings ever. The latest ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Full Speed Ahead for Contemporary Works

NEW YORK — The auction market is booming and, when it comes to contemporary art, it is charging on at an accelerated pace, as it did before the financial turmoil broke out in the autumn of 2008. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andy Warhol,  Robert Rauschenberg,  Philip Guston,  Jean-Michel Basquiat

Sotheby's, in a Dazzling Sale, Nets $134 Million

NEW YORK — In one of the most stunning performances ever on the contemporary art market scene, Sotheby’s sold on Wednesday evening 52 paintings, drawings and three-dimensional works, ranging from the 1950s to the present time, for a total of $134.44 ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sotheby's,  Andy Warhol,  Dow Jones,  Jean Dubuffet,  Jasper Johns

A Rally Marked by Bold Strokes

NEW YORK — A new breeze of optimism blew over the art world this week. As a host of top level Impressionist and Modern works came up on the block and triggered bidding matches as intense as any in pre-recession days, prosperity appeared to have been ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, International Herald Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

With Top Quality Offerings, Sotheby's Nets $181 Million

NEW YORK — The stunning performance of Impressionist and Modern art in Sotheby’s Wednesday sale where 56 paintings, drawings and sculptures brought just over $181 million can leave no one in doubt that the art market is as vigorous as it ever was ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sotheby's,  Alberto Giacometti

Christie's Amasses $65.67 Million in a Sparse Impressionist Sale

NEW YORK — Christie’s scored beyond all hope on Tuesday night in a sale of Impressionist and Modern art that was alarmingly thin. Of the 40 paintings and sculptures offered, 28 realized an aggregate $65.67 million. The latest on the arts, coverage of ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Review: Titian's Masterful Penetration of the Human Soul

PARIS — The Louvre Museum struck gold with the fascinating show featuring Titian and the two most important painters of the next two generations who tried to emulate him. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Louvre

In Chinese Art Trade, the English Aren't Buying

LONDON — The Asia Week that opens on Thursday with a flurry of selling shows of Chinese art followed later by auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams will highlight one of the paradoxes of the art market. British collecting in this field is in ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, International Herald Tribune,  23 Oct 2009

Hidden Harmonics of Art and Design

LONDON — You would think that bringing together Modern art and the objects that were designed at the time the paintings and sculptures were created by its leading masters was sheer common sense. That makes one wonder how such an obvious idea could have ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Review: A Mexican Story Full of Sound and Fury

LONDON — The rise to power of great men in distant exotic lands holds an irresistible lure to popular imagination. Or so museums assume, as witness “Moctezuma, Aztec Ruler,” the last of five British Museum exhibitions singing the feats of famous ...

From SOUREN MELIKIAN, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: British Museum,  John Elliott

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