Archive | October 15, 2009

Our “120 Seconds” For Friends We Love

by on October 15, 2009 in Wooster Collective



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Collecting Photobooks! Story in this Weekends London Financial Times

by on October 15, 2009 in Modern Art Obsession



So MAO’s guess is most smart photo obsessed people missed this great story about collecting important Photobook in this weekends London Financial Times. Yes.. for those who don’t know.. even in these difficult art times.. Collecting Important Photobooks is now super Hot Hot Hot! Actually so hot.. even the newly opened NY Branch of Bloomsbury Auction House managed to get some serious interest in the photobook part of their recent disastrous photo auction. Bloomsbury only sold 17.8% of the Photos in their auction, OUCH!…yes..only 35 lots sold out of 197 photo lots..Yikes! 60 of their 95 Photobook lots sold, which…

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Collecting Photobooks! Story in this Weekends London Financial Times

by on October 15, 2009 in Art As Investments, Books, Modern Art Obsession



So MAO’s guess is most smart photo obsessed people missed this great story about collecting important Photobook in this weekends London Financial Times. Yes.. for those who don’t know.. even in these difficult art times.. Collecting Important Photobooks is now super Hot Hot Hot! Actually so hot.. even the newly opened NY Branch of Bloomsbury Auction House managed to get some serious interest in the photobook part of their recent disastrous photo auction. Bloomsbury only sold 17.8% of the Photos in their auction, OUCH!…yes..only 35 lots sold out of 197 photo lots..Yikes! 60 of their 95 Photobook lots sold, which…

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Let’s all pretend it’s all going to be OK

by on October 15, 2009 in Artworld Salon

Witnessing the first throngs of yet another busy fair opening, it’s odd to observe what a delicate house of cards this whole art world of ours is, not to mention that I am sat in the ironically flimsy tent of the Frieze Art Fair, this year given an even more …

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