By, Carol Vogel, New York Times
Oh the drama of auctions: the salesrooms packed with smartly dressed collectors; the tension of having to decide in seconds whether to drop another million dollars on an artwork or let it go; the steely smile of the auctioneer trying gently to squeeze another hundred thousand from bidders. And the final results of the last two weeks of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions in New York, which saw the return of a surprising number of collectors, their wallets open, but only if the price was right.
“The numbers may not be the same as they were two years ago,” said Guy Bennett, a former co-head of Impressionist and modern art at Christie's who is now a private dealer, “but confidence is back.”
Read the rest of the article here: Art Prices (and Mood) Inch Back Up
The Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS will be hosting the following seminar:
ReplyDeleteTitle: A History of Anatomy in Classical Art
Art and Anatomy – Merging in the 21st Century?
Speaker: Professor Peter Abrahams
Professor of Clinical Anatomy
Medical Teaching Centre
Institute of Clinical Education
Warwick Medical School
University of Warwick, UK
Date: Tuesday, 1st December 2009
Time: 10.30am – 11.30am
Venue: Symposium Rooms 2 & 3, CRC, MD11, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.
ALL ARE WELCOME