lead NEW YORK. The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board will be dissolved in early 2012. The decision was announced by the Andy Warhol Foundation after a strategic review of its core aims, according to Joel Wachs, the president of the foundation. The foundation will continue its work in establishing the artist’s complete catalogue raisonné...READ MORE The hunt for missing government art The Government Art Collection isn’t entirely sure where everything is… In his first ever interview, the dealer and collector Helly Nahmad reveals details about the family collection, which goes on show in Zurich this month Scheme to buy Wrapped Reichstag... ...and display Christo’s archive in the Bundestag British Empire and Commonwealth Museum plays down growing fears about the condition of its collections Collector Christian Ringnes is behind €39m project Sean Scully has opening show Fair to work with website Paddle8 to preview and sell art No one is taking responsibility for the work, which stands opposite the Houses of Parliament In a rare interview, Victor Pinchuk tells us about his plans to build a new contemporary art space in Kiev Museum risks €250,000 copyright fine The market for the movement is in its infancy, but growing, thanks to scholarship and collector interest All Articles video Frieze once more opened its doors to a backdrop of global economic and civil unrest. Dealers approached the week with some degree of trepidation but remained determined to think positive. However, while visitor numbers remained high, sales proved slower than in previous years. more videos what's on NEW YORK. When Madison Avenue became the centre of the American advertising industry in the 1920s, the first Mad Men arrived, selling the ingredients of modern life, from breakfast cereals to Henry Ford’s Model Ts. Young, talented and dapperly dressed, among their ranks was Paul Cadmus. One of a new breed, he was an advertising artist. The Brooklyn Museum in 2007 bought Cadmus’s portrait by his friend Luigi Lucioni for a record $91,000 (est $15,000-$25,000), which will be displayed alongside further portraits, cityscapes, sculpture and photographs by 67 artists in what the museum hopes will lead to a reassessment of American art from the decade. all exhibitions offers Crunch: the Art and Music Festival (18th-20th November), is back with a new theme, Awake in the Universe. What gives art the ability to raise us from our emotional and intellectual slumbers and where is its edge currently to be found? Are elements of the contemporary art world asleep and where should we look for vitality? Join Serpentine Director Hans Ulrich-Obrist as he discusses the rise of the curator; outspoken artist Jake Chapman on the inspiration behind his seminal works in conversation with Paradise Row founder Nick Hackworth; award-winning novelist and playwright Mark Haddon on the conflict between poetic and rational thought;former ICA director Philip Dodd and Tate Modern curator Cedar Lewisohn on the politics of imagination; plus Don’t Look Now acclaimed director Nicolas Roeg, prominent art historian Griselda Pollock, RSC Director Adrian Noble and many, many more. Running alongside this, the Crunch Art Fair will showcase the best of contemporary art, with exhibitions from leading galleries including Paradise Row, Poppy Sebire, Alicia David Contemporary, Andipa, View Art, Gabriel Rolt, Open, Sumarria Lunn and EB&Flow. The Art Newspaper readers can get 30 per cent off all tickets by typing in THE ART NEWSPAPER at the checkout. http://www.artfestivalathay.org |