Art news today 17.5.2013

Gerhard Richter Sets a New Record at Sotheby's

2013-05-17 18:28:35 - The paintings of artist Gerhard Richter are being snapped up like gold bars! Richter’s painting “Domplatz, Mailand”, an oil representing the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, was sold Tuesday at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for a whopping $37,125,000 to collector Don Bryant, founder of the California-based Bryant Family Vineyard Napa.
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Views from above | Centre Pompidou Metz

2013-05-17 18:28:44 - Views from above considers how an elevated perspective, from the first aerial photographs of the nineteenth century to the satellite images of Google Earth, has transformed artists' perception of the world.
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PHILLIPS : NY010413, ANDREAS GURSKY, Heidelberg, Ost

2013-05-17 18:28:57 - c-print mounted on Plexiglas, in artist's frame
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Twitter / phillipsauction: NY - Another #Gursky flies ...

2013-05-17 18:29:02 - NY - Another #Gursky flies off the block selling for $185,000 http://www.phillips.com/detail/ANDREAS-GURSKY/NY010413/195 … pic.twitter.com/jYdaMDR2Cc
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