Warhol Foundation Accused of Dominating the Market
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A filmmaker contends that the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has waged a 20-year conspiracy to bend the art world to its will.
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New records were set on Thursday for  works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction  of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest  total since 1990.
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The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, a museum with a small endowment in a highly competitive art market, tries to raise money, angering its members.
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An art broker has filed a lawsuit against Axl Rose, claiming the rocker backed out of a deal to pay $2.36 million for an Andy Warhol portrait of John Lennon.
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A Valentineâs Day charity auction at Sothebyâs in New York raised more than $42.5 million to benefit H.I.V./AIDS relief programs in Africa, far above the presale estimate of about $29 million, The Associated Press reported. Organized by Sothebyâs, Bono, Damien Hirst (whose âWhere Thereâs a Will Thereâs a Way,â above, was among the works sold) and the Gagosian Gallery, the event set sale records for 17 artists, including Howard Hodgkin, Marc Quinn and Keith Tyson, and included pieces by Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and Ed Ruscha. Proceeds will go the United Nations Foundation and will support programs run by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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There are those who argue that most modern art is rubbish, but few critics take the view as literally as a cleaner at one of Britain's most prestigious galleries.
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An auction of modern and Impressionist paintings becomes the most lucrative art auction held at Sotheby's.
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The market for contemporary and post-war art is continuing apace as evidenced by a healthy result, and in particular another record for Mark Rothko, at Sotheby's on Tuesday.
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A descendant of a previous owner of two Picassos claims they were sold under duress during the Nazi regime, and that the paintings, now at the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, belong to him.
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Impressionist art still brings out the  big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on  Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary  art sales are where the action.
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Ric BurnsÂs absorbing four-hour critical biography of the seminal pop artist is devoted to the proposition that Warhol was the greatest artist of the second half of the 20th century.
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An eastern Slovak town that houses the Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art plans to use a European Union grant to help change its image and become "Warhol city."
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Paintings by such luminary artists as Gauguin, Matisse and Monet will be auctioned next week by the city's top two auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, in separate impressionist and modern art sales.
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Sotheby&#39;s Holdings Inc. set six artist records at its auction last night of Impressionist and Modern artwork, as a Paul Gauguin painting fetched $39.
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Britain's leading modern art collector and its most famous gallery exchanged allegations about the fate of a messy bed, a pickled shark and other icons of the 1990s "Brit Art" movement.
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Germany papers report on a controversial art exhibition in Berlin featuring works bought by the grandson of a top Nazi industrialist
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Four of Gustav KlimtÂs paintings go to the auction block, and a story about justice and redemption after the Holocaust devolves into yet another tale of the crazy, intoxicating art market.