Monthly Archives: May 2018
Banksy, Keep It Spotless (2007). Courtesy of Sotheby’s New York.
Banksy, Flower Thrower. Courtesy of Lazinc
Banksy, Free Zehra Dogan (2018). Courtesy of the Houston Bowery Wall.
Banksy, Free Zehra Dogan (2018), detail. Courtesy of the Houston Bowery Wall.
Banksy is a British street artist and activist who, despite his international fame, has maintained an anonymous identity. Aimed as a form of cultural criticism, the artist often targets established social and political agendas with his witty illustrations produced with stencils and spray paint. “The art world is the biggest joke,” he said. “It’s a rest home of the over privileged, the pretentious, and the weak.” Although details of the artist’s life are largely unknown, it is thought that Banksy was born in Bristol, United Kingdom, c. 1974, starting his career as a graffiti artist in the city. Better Out Than In, Banksy’s month-long residency in New York during October 2013, featured a man hawking the artist’s paintings for $60 a piece outside Central Park
The street art dealer Steve Lazarides, who was among the first to sell Banksy‘s work, will open a selling show of the anonymous artist’s works at his London gallery Lazinc in July.
Lazarides told the Art Newspaper that the “museum-style” show will include 20 canvases and rare painting multiples—not street art—drawn from the holdings of 10 collectors. The dealer expects several pieces to sell for more than $2.5 million each, which would surpass Banksy’s current public sales records.
The New York City Free Port Housing Art Collections Worth $$$$$$$
A view inside the Arcis art storage facility in Harlem, New York. Photo by Zoe Wetherall for Artsy.
These areas are called Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) & Free ports and they’ve existed under the protection of Customs and Border Patrol since the first opened on Staten Island in 1937. Today, they’re located in airports, in seaports, and on waterfronts, but also in warehouses and urban centers. They’re a big part of the U.S. business landscape: There were 263 of these zones in 2016, employing 420,000 people across the country, with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of merchandise, from car parts to pharmaceuticals, moving into and out of them. The zones typically take advantage of what’s known as an inverted tariff. When there are federal duties on the imports of raw materials, like steel, but not on the import of a finished product, like a tractor, it makes sense to bring the steel into the duty-free zone, manufacture the vehicle there, then formally import it without incurring the taxes.
This facility, which opened in April 2018 on a working class Harlem block on West 146th Street, is called Arcis Art Storage. “Arcis” is Latin for “fortress”—a fitting name for what’s essentially a museum-quality bunker, currently insured to store up to $3 billion worth of goods. Like Luxembourg’s Le Freeport, which is armed to the teeth and admits next to no one, security is tight: Guests at Arcis must have their retinas scanned to go through the first door, then present their bare forearms for a vascular scan at a second door.
Once goods are imported into Arcis—whether they’re coming from Shanghai or the Upper East Side—they are no longer within U.S customs territory. painting bought at Christie’s and stored uptown would not get preferential treatment when it came to sales and use tax over a painting going anywhere else. Arcis got the competitive, insular art storage world wondering exactly what its executives were selling.
A client viewing room at the Arcis art storage facility in Harlem, New York. Photo by Zoe Wetherall for Artsy.
Rococo Art
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pélerinage à l’île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to Cythera), 1717
Musée du Louvre
Artistic expression in Rococo, which represented a rejection of Baroque art’s formal grandeur. Drawing its name from the French word rocaille (meaning rock or pebble), which originally referred to the Renaissance penchant for decorating artificial grottos with shells and stones, Rococo began as an interior design style favored by the urban upper class. Rococo or “Late Baroque”, was an exuberantly decorative 18th century European style which was the final expression of the baroque movement that soon extended to painting. Its aesthetics combined with themes of sensual love and nature. The style quickly spread to the rest of France, and then to Germany, Austria, England, and other European countries.
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour (1748–55)
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
Portrait en pied de la marquise de Pompadour (Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour)
Musée du Louvre
Luis Paret y Alcázar, Charles III Dining Before the Court (c. 1775)
Luis Paret y Alcázar, Charles III Dining Before the Court, c. 1775. Museo del Prado. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Marriage of the Emperor Frederick and Beatrice of Burgundy (1751–52)
Giambattista Tiepolo
The Marriage of the Emperor Frederick and Beatrice of Burgundy, fresco in the Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall), Residenz, 1751-1752
Würzburg, Germany
The Crusie—-Chanel
Expensive Sneakers That Went Up In Value
Nike x OFF-WHITE Chuck Taylor All-Star Hi — $1,099
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Nike x OFF-WHITE Air Jordan 1 — $1,140
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Jordan 4 Retro “Kaws” — $1,400
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Nike x OFF-WHITE Air Jordan 1 — $2,100
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Kanye West x Nike Air Yeezy 2 “Pure Platinum” — $3,700
Kanye West x Nike Air Yeezy 2 “Red October” — $4,400
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Louis Vuitton x Kanye West Don “Patchwork” — $4,500
Jordan 4 Retro “Eminem x Carhartt” — $17,000
Nike Air MAG Back to the Future (2016) — $20,000
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r Jordan VI (1992 Olympics) – $7,200
Source: http://www.thecelebworth.com/10-expensive-jordans/
The last pair of Air Jordan’s with a Nike Air logo, the
Air Jordan 5 Oregon Ducks – $8,000
Source: https://www.sneakerfiles.com/11-expensive-sneakers-flight-club/9/
The Air Jordan 5 “Oregon Ducks” is one of two pairs. The fighting duck is seen on the heel.
Nike Dunk Low Pro SB Paris – $9,900
Made in 2003, only 202 pairs of the Nike Dunk Low Pro SB Paris were ever made.
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ir Jordan V (SE) – $10,000
Source: http://moneyinc.com/10-expensive-jordans-sneakers-history/
Designed in 1990 by Michael Jordan with World War II fighter pilots in mind, the Air Jordan V (SE) is a rarity with a high price tag of $10,000.
Nike Dunk High Pro SB Flom – $12,500
There are only 24 pairs of the Nike Dunk High Pro SB Flom and someone on eBay parted ways with their pair. The final auction price was $12,500.
Air Jordan 1 (Black and Gold) – $25,000
With the stark contrasting colors, Air Jordan 1 Black and Gold edition take on an aviator look with gold wings.
Air Jordan 4 Eminem x Carhartt – $30,000
Source: http://www.gq.com/story/eminem-carhartt-jordan-auction-prices-ebay
With only ten pairs made, the Air Jordan 4 Eminem x Carhartt shoes are a hot commodity. A pair was put on eBay and sold for $30,000.
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Air Jordan 12 OVO (Drake Edition) – $100,000
Source: http://theboombox.com/drake-ovo-jordan-sneakers-100000/
While the Air Jordan 12 OVO is popular,
Air Jordan 12 (Flu Game) – $104,000
Torino Fashion Week
Haute Couture 2018
Givenchy Autumn/Winter 2018
Givenchy Autumn/Winter 2018
Givenchy Autumn/Winter 2018
Givenchy Autumn/Winter 2018
Givenchy Autumn/Winter 2018
Haute Couture Shoes 2018
Street Style–Cannes Film Festival
Seoul Korea’s Street Style
Rockefeller Sale Of The Century
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Peggy and David Rockefeller became the most expensive estate in history on Tuesday night, after an evening sale of 44 works by European masters at Christie’s New York that totaled $646 million, including buyer’s fees—making it also the highest-grossing Impressionist and Modern sale ever held.
The exciting bidding for works from this once-in-a-generation collection set records not just for Monet and Matisse, but also for Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Armand Séguin, Giorgio Morandi, and Odilon Redon. The Rockefeller sale was a rare “white glove” sale, in which every work in the auction found a buyer.
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