Bad at Sports: Rant of the Week: Art Critics Suck Edition
Parool: Gemeente voorkomt faillissement Groninger Museum
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(0)Samuel Aranda wins the World Press Photo of the year | Overzicht winnaars
(0)VK: Megafraudeur kunstfonds weer terug in Nederland
(2)Parool: Beeld en Geluid/BMW stelt videokunst Sandberg Instituut veilig
(0)kunstbeeld: Zachary Formwalt wint de Illy Prize op Art Rotterdam
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(0)We Like Art: Must-see: 5 Rotterdamse kunstbeurzen aan de Maas
(1)4-10 2008, 8:58 JB
Maar op de veiling:

Marc Bijl; Every Cult, It’s Castle, 2008
Mixed media on canvas
H-39.4″/W-59.1″
Courtesy of the Artist and The Breeder Gallery, Athens
Estimated Retail Value: $29,500.00
“The important artwork in this auction references the Queen of Netherland (the eye).”
hvcca.org/auction/artist_Bijl.html
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De grote winkelwaardetest bij Yvon Lambert Gallery zondag 5 oktober: Cocktails & Silent Auction 5:00 pm

Folkert de Jong; The Practice ‘Take 7′, 2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, wood
H-65.5″/W-31.5″/D-33.5″
Courtesy of Office For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Estimated Retail Value: $46,000.00
“One work in 2007 (Mount Maslow at HVCCA) was simultaneously on the cover of 4 art magazines including “Sculpture.””

Thomas Hirschhorn; Ur-Collage, 2008
Series: B-XXI
Cardboard, prints, transparent
H-17″/W-11″
Courtesy of Artist
Estimated Retail Value: $15,000.00
“This new auction work is important and provocative as are all the best of Hirschhorn.”

Yigal Ozeri; Untitled; Priscilla with Vines, 2008
Oil on canvas
H-27″/W-40″
Courtesy of Artist and Mike Weiss Gallery, New York
Estimated Retail Value: $40,000.00
“These gorgeously painted canvases brilliantly reference an important history of painting female nudes and landscape recontextualized”

Adam Stennett; Girl with Ballantine, 2008
Oil on wood
H-12″/W-12″
Courtesy of Artist
Estimated Retail Value: $10,000.00
“[...] their power resides in its keen and observant focus. ”
Jonathan Meese; DR.SCHLITZOBST IST DER BESTE, 2007
Oil on canvas
H-39.7″/W-31.5″
Courtesy of Artist and Contemporary Fine Arts; Photo: Jochen Littkemann
Estimated Retail Value: $23,200.00
“Jonathan is above all [...] an equisite and utterly original human being where art rules. [...] his [art] is a generous and profoundly humble understanding of humanity”