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Artknows

http://tom-flynn.blogspot.com

informed and argumentative commentary and criticism on art history, sculpture, the art market, art crime, cultural heritage, museums and cultural matters.

• Added on: Jun 25th, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: tomflynn
• Listed in: Arts Culture
• Tags: sculpture art history museums art market cultural heritage art crime

Recent Posts

• Caveat emptor: Coming to an iPhone near you...

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 10:58 in iphone, invaluable, live auctions, caveat emptor, auction theory

  There was a time when if you scratched your nose at the wrong moment at a public auction you could find yourself the proud owner of a vast mahogany breakfront bookcase or a set of 12 Chippendale dining chairs that you didn't want, or a £500,000 Old ...

• Breaking with tradition: Sir Thomas Lighton joins Agnew\'s

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 09:23 in art market, tefaf, waddington galleries, sir thomas lighton, lord snowdon, leslie waddington, agnew's

  It has just been announced that Sir Thomas Lighton (left), until recently Managing Director of Cork Street modern and contemporary art dealers Waddington Galleries, is to join the venerable old firm of Agnew's as Chief Executive.This is interesting i...

• African art: the next China?

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 11:08 in african art, art market, bonhams, marlene dumas, william joseph kentridge

  I've just received a flyer from Bonhams, inviting consignments for their next African art sale, scheduled to take place on 10th March 2010 at their New York galleries on Madison Avenue.The flyer says:"Bonhams' sale of African Modernist and Contempora...

• David Lester: Who beat him up?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 04:06 in antiques fairs, david lester, antiques trade gazette, olympia international fine art and antiques fair

  The photograph shown left — of Florida-based fine Art & Antiques fairs impresario David Lester — has just been circulated as part of his advertising for the Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair, in which Lester and his wife Lee Ann rece...

• Funky caryatid brings British Museum director out in the rain

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 04:53 in cultural heritage, british museum, restitution, repatriation, neil macgregor, parthenon marbles

  At first it appeared to be just another tourist strolling through the grounds of the British Museum as 26-year old American graduate student Mary Phillips, the daughter of a Greek immigrant, conducted her one-woman peaceful protest appealing for the ...

• Nationalism, cultural hybridity and a hole in the ground: James Cuno at the London School of Economics

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 07:38 in cultural heritage, british museum, cultural nationalism, repatriation, james cuno

  James Cuno (left), director of the Art Institute of Chicago, seems to spend more time travelling the world promoting his books than he does looking after the encyclopedic collections over which he presides. Yesterday evening an audience of around 60 ...

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Ronald D. Isom

Very informative art blog.

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