"I'm fascinated by the contemporary-art world," she says. From Wordnik.com. [The Art World's Biggest Party] Reference
Attention, all self-adoring major contemporary-art collectors!. From Wordnik.com. [The Subject as Star] Reference
Havana is slowly becoming a major contemporary-art destination. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: In New York: Gallery Openings This Weekend] Reference
Sotheby's will hold a contemporary-art auction next Wednesday and Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [Sotheby's Posts Loss as Revenue] Reference
Instituted last year, the contemporary-art prize was awarded for the second time. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This unusually large crowd saw a contemporary-art auction where many buyers played it safe. From Wordnik.com. [Art Auctions in London] Reference
And the Walker -- possibly America's best contemporary-art museum -- is always worth a visit. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Arts Preview: The Arts] Reference
In the 15 years since it began, this has become one of Europe's hottest contemporary-art fairs. From Wordnik.com. [Berlin Broods Over a Glitz Invasion] Reference
A busy week of contemporary-art auctions in London kicks off Friday with Sotheby's evening sale. From Wordnik.com. [Eyeing London Auctions] Reference
Old Masters Like investors in most bubbles, contemporary-art collectors find it hard to imagine a pop. From Wordnik.com. [Some lenders exact stiff price from overleveraged borrowers] Reference
From 1991 to 1995, when the art market crashed, the value of the contemporary-art index fell more than 40%. From Wordnik.com. [Some lenders exact stiff price from overleveraged borrowers] Reference
British artist Francis Bacon will be featured at post-war - and contemporary-art sales in London this month. From Wordnik.com. [Bacon, Banksy Lead Sales] Reference
But in the past few years, he has quietly become the largest producer of contemporary-art fairs in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy’s New Frontier] Reference
A swath of unsold works might also have undermined buyers 'confidence in the overall contemporary-art market. From Wordnik.com. [Does Hirst Auction Point to Bull Market for Art?] Reference
Today, Mr. Asfar exhibits at Espace Kettaneh Kunigk, a contemporary-art gallery that opened in Beirut last year. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary Middle East] Reference
One door down is the Arrow Factory, a highly acclaimed space that hosts fascinating contemporary-art exhibitions. From Wordnik.com. [City Walk: Beijing] Reference
Some of the hottest tickets in China of late were not for the Olympic Games, but for major contemporary-art shows. From Wordnik.com. [All The Country’s An Art Exhibit] Reference
Barbara Pollack has been covering the contemporary-art scene since 1994 for The New York Times, Art & Auction, and Art News. From Wordnik.com. [Art's New Superpower] Reference
"There is little doubt that we are in for hard times," says Victor Gisler, director of Mai 36, a contemporary-art gallery in Zurich. From Wordnik.com. [Eyeing London Auctions] Reference
Today the Rubells are trailblazers among collectors of contemporary art, pioneering the concept of the private contemporary-art museum. From Wordnik.com. [The Power 100] Reference
"Director's Choice" is a traveling exhibition of recent contemporary-art acquisitions by the directors of 10 international art museums. From Wordnik.com. [Time Off Europe] Reference
Plans are already afoot for a new contemporary-art fair in 2011, headed by Rudolf Lorenzo, who put the über-trendy Art Basel on the map. From Wordnik.com. [The Writing on the Wall] Reference
The focus is on photos Mr. Eggleston took on commissions from the Paris contemporary-art museum Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. From Wordnik.com. [Time Off] Reference
Some fear that these auctions may disappoint, much like this month's New York contemporary-art sales by the Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses. From Wordnik.com. [A Rough Ride in Collectible Cars] Reference
Another thing that Mr. Saatchi knows is that the facilities of museums that traffic in contemporary-art reputations are nowadays more or less for hire. From Wordnik.com. [How Saatchi Orchestrated Brooklyn Museum Frenzy ��� Money���Not Art���Rules Show] Reference
Now, adding to his resume, Eberle just opened a show called “America” at Light & Sie, a prominent contemporary-art exhibition space in Dallas, Texas. From Wordnik.com. [Culture: Culture and Celebrity] Reference
Every two years, the Venice Biennale welcomes practically the whole contemporary-art world to share its precious space with palacefuls of Tiepolos and Bellinis. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Alternative] Reference
In 2000, Pinault announced, with considerable fanfare, plans to open a contemporary-art museum on the Île Seguin, the site of a former car factory outside Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Francois Pinault's Ultimate Luxury] Reference
Turn right on the street Samcheongdong-Gil (gil means "street") and you'll enter Samcheong-dong, a neighborhood full of contemporary-art galleries, renovated hanoks. From Wordnik.com. [Seoul] Reference
Saatchi deserves credit for turning London into the center of the current art scene — and for making contemporary-art collecting a sport among corporate mega-moguls. From Wordnik.com. [The New Establishment: New Establishment] Reference
The text in question is actually a press release publicizing an exhibition of emerging young artists at one of those new, edgy little contemporary-art galleries in Brooklyn. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Publicity] Reference
Together, these two institutions could attract enough attention from critics, dealers, patrons and young artists themselves to put Santa Fe in the contemporary-art big leagues. From Wordnik.com. [Santa Fe Raises Its Sites] Reference
Beijing had just begun developing its contemporary-art district, Factory 798, a former munitions plant whose Bauhaus-style architecture attracted dozens of artists and dealers. From Wordnik.com. [Art's New Superpower] Reference
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