RE:DEFINE: Dallas Contemporary and MTV Staying Alive join forces for a charity exhibition and online auction

RE:DEFINE


In 2012, 60 Minutes reporter Morley Safer revealed that contemporary art sales had reached $5.5 billion that year from auctions alone. The astonishing number sparked a large debate about the price of art, since its value is…

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Bonhams Fine Writing Instruments: The prestigious auction house offers rare and one-of-a-kind pens from the past and today

Bonhams Fine Writing Instruments


Tomorrow, 18 December 2013, global auction house Bonhams will place over 500 lots of fine writing utensils up for sale. Their selections—many being a writer’s ultimate fantasy—include a magnificent and diverse array of 60 vintage offerings…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Delicious craft beer pairings, i-D’s fashion future, interactive billboards and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Flippin’ Wolves Chances With Wolves, the group of three childhood friends and DJs who hit up the airwaves weekly on East Village Radio, is now sharing their eclectic taste of rare and forgotten music through Flipboard, which allows you to read social…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Marc Newson and Jony Ive’s (RED) auction, “selfie” as the Word of the Year, Isabella Blow at London’s Somerset House and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. A Too-Soon Farewell to 5Pointz Long Island City’s 5Pointz—the factory building whose walls became a museum and mecca for graffiti artists from all over the world for the past decade—was painted white overnight this past…

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Art of the Automobile in NYC: An exhibition and auction celebrating some of the rarest and finest motorcars in design history

Art of the Automobile in NYC


Though a global front-runner in all matters of design and culture, New York City has missed out on a lot of America’s heavy car culture history and is regrettably unfit for…

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Paddles ON! : Auction house Phillips partners with Tumblr for its first ever digital art auction, selling YouTube videos and video game screenshots

Paddles ON!


Although its main focus has been on contemporary art and design in the last decade, Phillips has never held an auction dedicated to digital art—until now. The historic international auction house partnered with recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Word of Mouth: Jakarta: Car-free Sundays, affordable art auctions and, of course, coffee in the Indonesian capital

Word of Mouth: Jakarta


by Maureen Ferry Cuellar Jakarta has come into the spotlight recently with Indonesia being hailed as an economic wunderkind. More and more, people are being drawn to the capital of this vast Southeast Asian archipelago in hot pursuit of business opportunities. Parallel to this economic progress, a local creative revolution…

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Fab + The Warhol Foundation: A rare collection of original posters from the iconic pop artist

Fab + The Warhol Foundation


While you can score a Campbell’s soup reproduction print from any number of places, opportunities to pick up an authentic Andy Warhol are few and far between for casual art collectors. Knowing this, design megastore …

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BAMart Silent Auction with Paddle8: Two art world heavyweights collaborate to rethink the online auction

BAMart Silent Auction with Paddle8


After nine years of hosting the BAMart Silent Auction, BAM has decided to team up with Paddle8 for the second time in…

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Secret 7″: London’s charity art auction and its exhibition of specially designed 7″ record sleeves

Secret 7


by Gavin Lucas Opening in London tonight, 11 April, Secret 7″ is a charity art project which sees hundreds of artists—including the likes of Ai Weiwei and Gilbert & George—exhibit…

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