At the end of each week, Whitewall is here to sift through the news so you don’t have to. After the jump, find out what’s worth reading from this week’s news.
1. The Art Market Monitor breaks down the Sotheby’s and Christie’s PWC sales through sales figures and news cover.
2. Frieze art fair announces the details for their 2009 fair, which will include a new section similar to VOLTA at the Armory. This section, Frame, will show single artist booths representing galleries that are less than six years old.
3. A house in Matinecock, Long Island is being sold, and so are the art contents inside. While the art collection is being auctioned off, so is the house that’s holding it. Not exactly killing two birds with one stone, but you get the idea.
4. ARTINFO makes travel recommendations for the Venice Biennale 2009.
5. The trend of artists making design objects is growing rapidly. It’s a way for the artist to expand their horizon through different mediums, “whet a buyer’s appetite for the real thing,” and I’d say, a product of the times for collectors with a stiff budget: “It’s a great way to have a Koons and not spend millions of dollars.”
6. The Art Institute in Chicago opens their new Modern art wing (also to include contemporary art) designed by Renzo Piano.
7. Art HK began yesterday and has expanded since last year, from visitors, to programming to the number of participants (despite no longer being backed by Lehman Brothers).
8. Collector Peter Brant opens the Brant Art Study Center in Greenwich, CT.
9. ARTINFO reports on the Phillips underwhelming sale this week.
10. The Guggenheim turns 50 this year and to celebrate the anniversary, the museum hosts a Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit, “From Within Outward.”
