After spending over 16 months working on them, Anita Mai Tan from Al-gems.com has released her new Dragon and Spider phone case to be worn as a necklace Poetry and Nature are her muse. The intention and meaning behind each phone case is as brilliant as its design. Her creativity and fusion of design elements, whether [...]
28 July 2011 
Christie’s Global Art Sales Achieve $3.2 Billion in the First Half of 2011
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Home sales may be slowing and stocks may be volatile, but the art market is riding high, thanks to a surge of new collectors across Europe and Asia who feel confident about the value of everything from Ming vases to Mark Rothko paintings. Auctioneer Christie’s announced that its worldwide sales for the first half reached [...]
15 July 2011 
Sotheby’s Set an Auction Record for Venetian View Painting
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Francesco Guardi’s monumental painting, Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon made £26,697,250 ($44,362,820) at Sotheby’s Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on July 6. Sotheby’s quickly claimed that this was the most expensive painting to be sold by an international auction house so far this year. Measuring 115 by [...]
26 May 2011 
Al Farrow’s Religious Sanctuaries Made of Munitions
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Al Farrow’s Religious Sanctuaries Made Of Munitions Munitions is obviously interesting as a material for making various creations. You may remember Caliber .223 – Unique Chess Set made from steel and bullet shell casings. You will be more delighted with amazing Religious Sanctuaries by San Francisco-based sculptor Al Farrow. He uses bullets, gun parts, steel, [...]
4 May 2011 
Picasso’s Femmes Lisant (Deux Personnages) Sold For $21.3 Million At Sotheby’s
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Femmes Lisant (Deux Personnages) by Pablo Picasso Sotheby’s opened Impressionist and Modern Art Sales week in New York on Tuesday. The sale totaled $170.5 million, against a pre-sale estimate of $159 million to $230 million. Of the 59 works on offer 15, or 25 percent went unsold. Star of the evening was Picasso’s Femmes Lisant [...]
21 April 2011 
Andy Warhol’s Red-on-black Self-Portrait Could Fetch $40 Million
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Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait A 1986 self-portrait by Andy Warhol that was among the last of his paintings to be exhibited while he was alive is heading for the auction block, where it is estimated to sell for up to $40 million. Painted with acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, this is one of the of two [...]
11 April 2011 
A Triptych Oil Painting by Chinese Artist Zhang Xiaogang Sold for $10.1 Million in Hong Kong
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A triptych oil painting by Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang sold for $10.1 million Auction giant Sotheby’s sold $447 million worth of Asian art, wine, watches and jewellery in its Asian spring sales. The centrepiece of auction in Hong Kong was an early triptych oil painting, Forever Lasting Love by renowned Chinese artist Zhang Xiaogang sold [...]
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