Last, but not least of the London auction houses with their focus on modern and contemporary art alongside Frieze, albeit surrounded by road works, as is much of London, Phillips too was bursting with colourful and bold modern and contemporary art, including sculpture by KAWS and Antony Gormley. The highlight was an exhibition of Andy […]
Bonham’s was more cool and restrained than its competitors at the start of October, guarded by Jaumet Plensa’s ‘The Heart of Trees’ at the doorway and including sculpture by Antony Gormley, Tony Cragg (Constant Change) and Max Bill, along with El Anatsui’s ‘Wastepaper Basket’. On the other floors was a diverse range of modern and […]
The scaffolding came down from the entrance of Sotheby’s at the beginning of October to reveal the results of their recent refurbishment, giving them a more contemporary reception, entrance and cafe. Inside they too were showing work for their auctions of modern and contemporary art, perhaps bolder and with more artists from the USA than […]
Where in Mayfair could you have an exhibition of Rolls Royce Phantom cars on two different floor levels? Yes, around Park Lane and Berkeley Square there are luxury car showrooms opening onto the street at ground floor level, but it is to the credit of Bonham’s and architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands that in the £30 […]
While three of the main auction houses in London concentrating on Russian art this week, Phillips broke out and held one of its regular sales of modern and contemporary limited prints, rugs, ceramics and other works, with sunshine flooding in for short periods through the ground floor windows of their Berkeley Square gallery to illuminate the […]
Phillips in London has its impressive modern glass eight-story building in Grosvenor Square. In New York, it’s competitor Christie’s is the one with the large building. Phillips does not have that opportunity, but it makes up for it with its location, in prime downtown space in Park Avenue, which last week had Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Work: Zodiac Heads” […]
Sotheby’s in London has quite traditional exhibition and auction spaces in New Bond Street. New York is quite a contrast with its modern ten-storey glass building providing a substantial area of flexible exhibition spaces on several floors around a central atrium with escalators, designed by architect Richard Gluckman, who also designed the permanent collection spaces […]
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