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Post by commandax on Sept 2, 2009 20:14:38 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 21, 2009 21:23:42 GMT -8
An interview with Susan Hancock (owner of Royal/T) |
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Post by steveinca on Oct 21, 2009 23:04:33 GMT -8
awesome slide show. Thanks for posting. I think it's hilarious that Hirst's shark piece started to rot and had to be replaced. |
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Post by thinkspace on Oct 22, 2009 11:15:13 GMT -8
Dennis Hopper got a Warhol for $75? Wow, I wonder what he was talking about.... I can't believe an OG??? Aside from a property, what's the most expensive thing you've bought? I don't spend a lot. Most of my art collection I got by trading it or through knowing the artist. I got Andy Warhol's first soup can painting for $75. I lost it to my first wife. That was back in 1962, nobody knew who Warhol was. Look here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_Soup_Cans about a 3rd the way down under "The premiere" Says they sold for $100 a pop  Read the Ferus Gallery story - LEGENDARY gallery in LA that launched the careers of SO many high profile power players. Only 3 soup can paintings sold or something like that, then the gallery bought them all back, he held on to them for ages and sold them years latter for millions to a museum - there's a great documentary on Ferus and the owner out that goes into detail on this and even goes back and finds the collectors that had purchased the few that had sold, and gets their reactions about them being sold for millions. Thing is, most now are huge collectors themselves and they just seem to shrug if off... great movie to track down through for those curious about the beginnings of the whole pop art movement. |
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Post by thinkspace on Oct 22, 2009 11:18:13 GMT -8
Doogie has an AMAZING collection - MOCA held a tour of his house recently for their Contemporaries members... and they held one a couple years back for Hoppers house too (missed that one). Every couple months they do these awesome home tours - well worth signing up to become a Contemporaries member of MOCA for sure - I've seen some amazing things in the 2 years I've been a member. Just jaw dropping displays of wealth. I mean, I went to one home that had a Dale Chihuly glass install in the ceiling of their guest bathroom - insane. www.moca.org/museum/involvement_act_contemp.php? |
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Post by thinkspace on Oct 22, 2009 11:23:42 GMT -8
Check out the 1988 Blog - or search Vimeo/YouTube - but there is a great episode of MTV Cribs where they go to the Good Charolette guys house and they have a lil' mini gallery room in the middle of their home with some awesome pieces from Luke Chueh and many others.
Speaking of mini-galleries in the middle of their homes, just visited Gary from Copro's house and will be posting a cool tour of his home and mini-gallery within in the next week or so on Sour Harvest. Also have interviews coming up with director Morgan Spurlock (AMAZING collection) and Joe Hahn of Linkin Park - who does own some of Ekundayo's biggest pieces to date, not to mention some amazing works from Simkins, Clay, WK, and so many more.
Have a few other collector profiles coming up soon too, and many more in the works.
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Post by panditha676 on Oct 28, 2009 17:40:41 GMT -8
i wonder if anyone has ever really done any interviews with Mark Parker, i mean that guy has a REAL collection of REAL works IMHO by REAL artists, all he needs is a few bougerous, a few rennissance peices, and hes set. alot of those dudes that i saw on forbes did not IMHO have any works by REAL artists, except for paul allen.
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Post by evilchoy on Oct 28, 2009 18:05:26 GMT -8
My Friend Bigfoot has an amazing collection and so does his good friend Sas, you know who says they have a REAL collection but in reality it is crap... Y. Eti her collection is pictures of unicorns in front of rainbows...not even on black velvet...
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Post by ally on Nov 12, 2009 22:25:21 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 30, 2009 10:39:32 GMT -8
 Simon Cowell has been given a half million pound festive bonus – a one-off picture by Banksy. Execs at Syco commissioned the graffiti artist to do a reproduction of Degas’ 1874 masterpiece Rehearsal Of The Ballet On Stage, featuring Simon. The artwork – in which Cowell’s head is superimposed on to the ballet master – was intended as a thank you following the success of this year’s X Factor. A thrilled Cowell, 50, has had two prints of the original made to hang in his homes in Barbados and LA. The original has pride of place in his London house. A source said: “Record label execs wanted something unique to give to Simon. He’s a secret art collector and loves Degas – plus he’s a huge fan of Banksy. “So they got Banksy to mock up one of Degas’ most famous works. In the picture, it looks like Simon’s deciding whether or not the girl has the X Factor. www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/12/29/simon-cowell-given-500k-banksy-artwork-as-xmas-gift-115875-21928396/ |
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 24, 2010 17:41:02 GMT -8
it was D*Face that got flamed to hell for his dealings with Christina Aguilera and her husband, the details of which were made very public when his website/email were hacked.    |
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Post by commandax on Mar 19, 2010 18:42:00 GMT -8
Financial Times: "A Life With Old Masters" "Jan Six XI stands before the three great glass windows of his new gallery and points to a view of Amsterdam’s picturesque Herengracht, which has barely changed since the days when its gabled red-brick merchants’ houses were first painted by the artists of the Dutch Golden Age. The gallery occupies the principal floor of one such merchant’s house, built in 1665 on the so-called “silver bend” of the canal. Metres away, and flanking either side of its banks, are the veritable palaces that once housed the city’s great pre-war art dealers, Goudstikker and Houthakker. It is a revealingly traditional – and romantic – choice of location for a 21st-century gallery specialising in Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings and drawings. For Six, 31, there was never any question of opening a gallery anywhere else. He is bound to this city by deep emotional and historic ties. His ancestor and namesake was a friend and patron of Rembrandt, and the subject of one of the artist’s most celebrated portraits. Remarkably, it still hangs in the 17th-century family house nearby on the Amstel – or, to be more accurate, it will return there once the current restoration of the house is complete. Growing up in a great museum of a home was, according to Six, a strange but remarkably grounded experience. His parents took the decision to have something akin to a normal life by arranging family rooms on the ground floor of the 58-room mansion, so that no one needed to walk through the great period rooms on a daily basis. Upstairs on the bel-étage was the family collection of some 100,000 works of art – paintings, drawings, prints, tapestries, furniture, books, silver, ceramics – amassed over the centuries by 10 previous generations of Jan Sixes. “Almost nothing left the family,” he explains: “While the family occasionally moved house, everything went with them, including the doors and panelling. There is always a sense when walking into a room that everything has always been together, which is very peculiar.” He pauses: “It is a time capsule, a kind of gesamtkunstwerk [total art work]. Keeping it together is a huge responsibility.”" Read the rest here.
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 19, 2010 21:14:09 GMT -8
damn, six generations of collecting? 100,000 pieces of work and probably all expensive. i hope they have a good fire department there...
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Post by bspear on Mar 25, 2010 16:02:22 GMT -8
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Post by jemappellekat on Mar 26, 2010 19:47:16 GMT -8
Where his art collection will go is probably the least of his worries... |
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Post by steveinca on Mar 26, 2010 19:53:18 GMT -8
I'm sure his soon to be ex wife is battling against his children for the collection. |
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 31, 2010 18:36:33 GMT -8
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Post by bspear on Apr 2, 2010 16:23:11 GMT -8
I feared something like this might happen.
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Post by steveinca on Apr 2, 2010 16:55:18 GMT -8
she sounds like a wretched woman. Instead of being by her husband's bedside, she's busy looting his valuables. |
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Post by commandax on Apr 8, 2010 22:48:19 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on May 16, 2010 20:47:30 GMT -8
www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/05/15/posh-s-30m-affair-of-the-art-115875-22259765/David and Victoria Beckham would like to be known for their art collection which is housed in their London, Milan and Los Angeles homes. Rumored to be valued in the region of £30m, London’s Mirror claims Victoria is negotiating to have parts of the collection shown in a museum The entire collection, bought over eight years, is “love themed”. It includes paintings, portraits and sculptures by Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor Wood, Tracey Emin, Banksy, and Jake and Dinos Chapman. “One of the works is a Hirst bull’s heart enshrined in silver with scalpels exploding from it. Another, given from David to Victoria for Christmas, is an Emin-designed strip of neon lights spelled out to read ‘Forever yours’.
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Post by svenman on May 17, 2010 1:13:53 GMT -8
Another, given from David to Victoria for Christmas, is an Emin-designed strip of neon lights spelled out to read ‘Forever yours’. laughable. 'forever yours' apart from the time that he shaggged that woman who famously wanked off a pig on television  |
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Post by thirteen on Aug 17, 2010 10:57:13 GMT -8
she sounds like a wretched woman. Instead of being by her husband's bedside, she's busy looting his valuables. Hopper married her. He's been married 5 times now. If I were him, I'd think about that quite carefully. |
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Post by rhinomilk on Aug 17, 2010 12:16:27 GMT -8
she sounds like a wretched woman. Instead of being by her husband's bedside, she's busy looting his valuables. Hopper married her. He's been married 5 times now. If I were him, I'd think about that quite carefully. well... probably too late for that now |
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Post by bluecat on Aug 17, 2010 13:00:53 GMT -8
www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/05/15/posh-s-30m-affair-of-the-art-115875-22259765/David and Victoria Beckham would like to be known for their art collection which is housed in their London, Milan and Los Angeles homes. Rumored to be valued in the region of £30m, London’s Mirror claims Victoria is negotiating to have parts of the collection shown in a museum The entire collection, bought over eight years, is “love themed”. It includes paintings, portraits and sculptures by Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor Wood, Tracey Emin, Banksy, and Jake and Dinos Chapman. “One of the works is a Hirst bull’s heart enshrined in silver with scalpels exploding from it. Another, given from David to Victoria for Christmas, is an Emin-designed strip of neon lights spelled out to read ‘Forever yours’. Can't help but imagine that this will be 30 million quids worth of complete pants, especially if their taste in tattoos is anything to go by! |
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