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...“He has the most incredible visual memory I have ever come across,” says Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate for 29 years....
...In the 1990s, Tate director Nicholas Serota commented: “Quite suddenly it seemed that art could be young, female and directly connected to the viewer’s daily experience.”...
...Nicholas Serota, chair of Arts Council England, develops Obrist’s point: “Artists admire John because he has always tried to respond to their ambitions, even when their ideas break all the conventions....
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...The solid bronze Calia Bronze Draped chair, meanwhile, looks like something Jeff Koons could have conjured by throwing an enchanted sheet of fabric over a dining chair....
...She is the author of Art as Jewellery: From Calder to Kapoor, whose contents page reads like a Christie’s evening sale: Picasso, Dali, Giacometti, Rauschenberg, Gormley, Ruscha, Haring, Hirst, Rondinone, Koons...
...At this level, Hockney would be the priciest living artist at auction, taking the crown from Jeff Koons, whose “Balloon Dog (Orange)” (1994-2000) sold for $58.4m in 2013....
...It’s a quintessential Kiefer work, but he has never been in such a public setting,” says Nicholas Baume, director and chief curator of Public Art Fund....
...Koon Chow, a strategist at UBP, said “I think South Africa is benefiting from a combination of factors including strong inflows to all emerging market bonds of which a portion will still flow to South Africa...
...When Nicholas Logsdail started Lisson Gallery in London in 1967, the contemporary art world was still, in his words, “an empty room, metaphorically speaking”: few forward-thinking galleries in London or...
...Koon Chow, a strategist at UBP who met with Mr Gordhan before he was recalled on Monday, said the finance minister was still making jokes “despite the cloud hanging over him”....
...Koon Chow, a currency strategist at UBP, said that “Zuma’s decision is likely to make a Moody’s downgrade on the 7 April from Baa2 to Baa3 all but certain....
...I was never part of the Koons-loving or Basquiat-loving world. And art was becoming far more of a counter in financial games — I hated it all.”...
...To show Bruce Nauman or Jeff Koons or other predecessors in post-minimalism, all of who are well represented in Hirst’s “Murderme” collection would have been over-obvious....
...Tom Ford: Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Nicholas Hoult Calvin Klein: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Barkhad Abdi, John Travolta, Zac Efron Giorgio Armani: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Givenchy:...
...“It was a difficult period to own and acquire new real estate, given the high interest rates and capital constraints,” says Nicholas Stolatis, senior director at TIAA-CREF’s global real estate arm, but “...
...“A perfect storm between supply and demand” is how Nicholas Maclean of London and New York dealership Eykyn Maclean described the roof-raising sales of postwar and contemporary art in New York this week....
..., and accounts for the billionaire careers of kitsch merchants such as Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, who exploit brand-name identity with just enough irony to flatter their herd-like buyers....
...But Wollaston winners – David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, Yinka Shonibare, Gavin Turk, Marc Quinn – reflect current international art-making more vibrantly and comprehensively than the Turner’s recent...
...“We are opening a new space in London next year,” says Nicholas Maclean. “We are hoping to meet new collectors here in London.”...
...www.museicivicifiorentini.it Nicholas Glass is a reporter for CNN’s ‘Icon’...
..., although intellectually insubstantial, this monumental tome (weight: 12kg) astounds and amuses for sheer ambition, chutzpah and range: frescos to videos, Terracotta Army to Aztecs, Tang tombs to Jeff Koons...
...stimuli come mostly through reproduced images, and the romance of a work’s unique “aura” looks quaint set against the conceptual triumphs of the factory productions of top-selling artists such as Jeff Koons...
...They will include works by Damien Hirst; Gilbert & George; Jeff Koons; Andy Warhol; Diane Arbus; and Robert Mapplethrope....
...The 28 works are all on show at Christie’s Paris this week, from Thursday; among the estimates is €300,000-€400,000 for the Koons....
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