Parrino, Taylor and Goldstein: In contemporary art world, it pays to be dead Jun 26, 2008
Parrino, for example, is right at home in the somewhat macho male club at Gagosian, which shows the likes of Richard Prince and Richard Serra. And Taylor's playful use of materials and droll one-liners aligns with Zwirner & Wirth artists like Richard Tuttle and Fred Sandback. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Girlz on the hood Jun 24, 2008
Richard Prince has a thing about fast cars, nurses and other supposed male obsessions ... A sculpture installation of a car at the Richard Prince: Continuation exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London ... Walking into Richard Prince's show, the bonnet of a car greets you, like a shark or a ma tre d' with perfect American teeth. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Suzy Menkes Remembers Yves Saint Laurent Jun 3, 2008
Were not talking about Richard Prince, or Warhol for that matter, but Picasso. The whole apartment felt very Proustian; you could almost smell the calla lilies. (New York Times)
Louis Vuitton sales don't suffer in downturn May 25, 2008
We've had a very successful collaboration with (American artist) Richard Prince. These bags are still in our stores. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
‘Old, Weird America’ explores American folklore May 21, 2008
And Matthew Day Jackson s two-dimensional images and found objects eerily goose our collective memory with references to the moonwalk, Easy Rider, 1968 Olympics black power protest, Richard Prince, 9/11 and Big Foot. There is a beautiful video by Jeremy Blake in the exhibition. (Conroe Courier, TX)
Freud nude shatters price record May 14, 2008
New records were set for Richard Prince, Tom Wesselmann, Sam Francis, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, Robert Indiana and Peter Halley. The spring sales wrap up tomorrow at Sotheby's, which has assembled an even bigger contemporary and postwar sale than Christie's. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Have Cut Copy made the album of the year? Tony Naylor thinks so. May 10, 2008
Tim: "When we were putting the artwork together, we made it quite organic, re-photographing ready-made images, like [controversial American painter/photographer] Richard Prince does. That organic process says a lot about how we work.". Dan: "Tim studied at art college in Melbourne and I have a graphic design company, Alter. We do work for Modular, the label we're on, MTV and various Australian things. For me, visual art and music are so intertwined.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
More of this story Apr 12, 2008
The artwork included paintings, drawings, photos, rare photography books, artist-designed skateboards, album covers and other items created by figures including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ed Ruscha, and photographers Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. Prices range from 5 books to a 300,000 collage by Prince. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009 Mar 29, 2008
Images by Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman demonstrate how B movies and magazine advertising determined the postwar American sense of identity. Louise Lawlor and Sherrie Levine examine myths and legends of modern art and their relation to the museum and art history. (Suite101.com)
Provocative Guggenheim director resigns Feb 28, 2008
He has also organized trend-setting shows of contemporary artists, among them Matthew Barney, Richard Prince and, most recently, Cai Guo-Qiang. Krens has drawn criticism for some of his programming choices, including a show devoted to Armani suits underwritten by the fashion house itself. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Red Campaign Comes to Sothebys Feb 18, 2008
Richard Prince, Untitled (The Velvets), $1. 76 million. (New York Times)
Auction for AidsBono, Banksy and Hirst join forces for charity art sale Feb 15, 2008
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AUCTIONS: At Christie's Post-War and Contemporary sale, 3 world records, but danger looms Feb 9, 2008
Richard Prince and Ed Ruscha were the only artists whose relatively recent work fared well on Wednesday night. Prince's "Settlement Nurse," painted in 2003 in the manner of a perfectly figural poster, brought 2. (International Herald Tribune)
Making Lipstick Jungle Feb 7, 2008
It is a provocative, unsettling image that was made famous when Richard Prince photographed the original photograph, making a piece of appropriated art out of itthat is what now hangs in the museum. "I remember that day," she tells me. (Slate)
Jasper Johns: Color in shades of gray Feb 6, 2008
The artist Richard Prince said that he remembers viewing Johns's crosshatch paintings for the first time. "I was bowled over," he said. (International Herald Tribune)
Bono, Hirst auction combines art, charity in NY Feb 5, 2008
"It's the cream of the international contemporary art crop," Barker said of the roster that includes Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Richard Prince and Takashi Murakami. Hirst contributed seven works, including "Where there's a will there's a way," a monumental medicine chest sculpture containing hundreds of metal HIV pills. (AlertNet)
FULL STORY > Feb 4, 2008
We may try to include some pyrotechnics," he said with a laugh. The novel, due in May from HarperCollins, will feature a cover by his friend, famed artist Richard Prince - the first time Prince has done a cover for a book by anyone other than himself. Frey also plans to collaborate on a limited-edition companion book with Prince and photographer Terry Richardson that will incorporate excerpts from his novel with Richardson's photographs of LA and Prince's artwork. Frey recalled, "When I called... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Photography with an eye for social relevance Jan 10, 2008
Though as void of self-expression as the appropriated work of Richard Prince, Arden's collages suggest maps of association drawn from private memories of the public image domain. Roy Arden: Photographs. (San Francisco Chronicle)
While markets may roil, art endures Dec 30, 2007
While art from all eras is selling well, works by modern masters like Warhol and Mark Rothko and living artists like Richard Prince and Damien Hirst are especially hot. "The most money is chasing these modern and contemporary names, and that's just what's in fashion really," Peck said, adding that buyers with new money from Russia and China have a "limitless appetite for Western art and objects. Prices in some cases have doubled or tripled in the past year.". (Boston Globe)
* US art market is booming despite Wall Street turmoil Dec 27, 2007
Works by such modern artists as Warhol and Mark Rothko, and living artists including Richard Prince and Damien Hirst, are especially popular. In oil producing countries like the United Arab Emirates, the appetite is for modern American works by such artists as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Warhol, Peck said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
If the copy is an artwork, then what's the original? Dec 6, 2007
Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times A poster for the Richard Prince "Spiritual America" exhibition, outside the Guggenheim Museum, New York ... Since the late 1970s, when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art photographing other photographs, usually from magazine ads, then enlarging and exhibiting them in galleries the question has always hovered just outside the frames: What do the photographers who took the original pictures think of these pictures of their pictures,... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Dealers pitch in to fund museum shows Nov 19, 2007
A Richard Prince retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York ... And for the current Richard Prince retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Larry Gagosian and Barbara Gladstone, Prince's Los Angeles and New York dealers, both wrote checks, the museum confirmed ... Lisa Dennison, who was the director of the Guggenheim when the Richard Prince show was being organized and now works at Sotheby's, said that declining corporate donations had prompted museums to be more... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Art Market Stays Strong at Auctions Nov 16, 2007
Their presence led to runaway prices for contemporary artists long favored by U.S. buyers such as Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince and John Chamberlain. As expected, foreign buyers took home half the sales' offerings, twice as much as they carted away five years ago. (Wall Street Journal)
De Kooning Painting Leads Phillips's $42 Million Contemporary Art Auction Nov 16, 2007
Among the high-end casualties that failed to sell were Andy Warhol's tiny blue ``Mao'' canvas (1974) with a high estimate of $900,000 and a bland-colored 2001 painting by Richard Prince with a high estimate of $2 million. Even the evening's top lot felt anti-climactic. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
$325 million Christie's sale reflects buoyant market Nov 14, 2007
The first in the sale was Richard Prince with "Piney Woods Nurse," done in 2002. The figural work in ink-jet print and acrylic on canvas brought $6. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Slideshow | Looks from Paris Fashion Week 2008 Oct 31, 2007
Artist Richard Prince collaborated on this bag for Louis Vuitton. KIRK MCKOY / LOS ANGELES TIMES. (The Miami Herald)
The Frieze art fair in London: Where art and commerce happily co-exist Oct 15, 2007
"Untitled (Original)" by the American artist Richard Prince, which pairs a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a model ... "I thought it was some kind of strange feminist piece," said Jessica Stockdale, a 21-year-old photography student, pondering "Untitled (Original)" by the American artist Richard Prince at the Frieze Art Fair. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Paris fashion rises ro a pedestal -- or sinks into absurdity Oct 13, 2007
Louis Vuitton Jacobs collaborated with artist Richard Prince for the collection he showed Sunday. The clothes were in many ways repetitious of Jacobs' signature line, which debuted in New York last month. (Newsday -- New York City)
Yue Minjun Wins, Damien Hirst Loses at Sotheby's Art Auction in London Oct 13, 2007
New York dealer Larry Gagosian bought works by U.K. artist Francis Bacon and U.S. Pop artists Richard Prince and Ed Ruscha. Buyers were 27 percent British, 19 percent American, 42 percent from continental Europe and 6 percent Asian, Sotheby's said. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Russian collectors snap up art at London Frieze Fair Oct 11, 2007
They join collectors looking to buy works of artists such as Richard Prince, Tracey Emin and Lisa Yuskavage. Frieze opens to the public today. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Tenner for your thoughts, Dinos? Oct 11, 2007
" writes Bethan Huws, on one of those office messageboards with clip-on letters, which hangs on the wall of the Yvon Lambert stand at the Frieze art fair. Her plea is likely to go unheard. Signalling artistic frustration at those pesky know-nothing collectors who insist on buying things they don't understand, Huws - whose work is better known for its quietism, its lyrical quality - is a voice in the wilderness. And anyway, someone has probably bought the message by now. Frieze opens to the... (Guardian Unlimited)
Read on... Oct 10, 2007
Five people who I'd like to see answer this survey: Richard Prince Johnny Mathis Isabel SarliRay McMartinJohnny Knoxville. Check out classic Variety reviews of , , and. (Variety)
London Frieze Art Fair Lures Buyers, Hedge Funds as Bonus Concern Grows Oct 10, 2007
Hedge-fund manager Adam Sender's art curator, Todd Levin, said he'd reserved works by Stephan Balkenhol, Alighiero e Boetti, Thomas Hirschhorn, Anish Kapoor, On Kawara, Richard Prince, and Rosemarie Trockel ... Gagosian has art by London-born Cecily Brown and U.S. pop artists Ed Ruscha and Richard Prince, who also was commissioned by Frieze to make a work based on a 1970s Dodge Challenger car. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Paris Fashion Week pulls out all the bells, whistles ... and bags Oct 9, 2007
Stars including musicians Kanye West and Courtney Love pressed into the Vuitton show, held in a tent in the courtyard of the Louvre museum where models paraded in flashy outfits inspired by U.S. artist Richard Prince. American designer Marc Jacobs has propelled Vuitton to the top by asking contemporary artists to customize its trademark monogram bags. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Paris Fashion Week Oct 9, 2007
Vuitton had worked in collaboration with the American artist Richard Prince, famous for his sardonic takes as art works and for his "Naughty Nurses" series of fetishized hospital figures, re-colored in lurid shades on postwar pulp fiction covers. The show tent was lined with similar book covers announcing "Tokyo by Night" - or any other city you could name to cover the vast space. (International Herald Tribune)
Fashion for all Oct 9, 2007
At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs continued to experiment with imbuing new value to a fashion brand by means of artistic input, collaborating with artist Richard Prince on a range of handbags and shoes which deliberately challenged notions of quality. The LV logo, for instance, was stamped smudgily, as it might be in a bad fake. (Guardian Unlimited)
In London, upstart art fairs share the calendar with a blockbuster Oct 3, 2007
Now heading into its fifth year, the Frieze Art Fair in London is an irresistible mix of art, commerce and glamour, and has quickly made a reputation for itself as an international showcase for some of the best contemporary art, including works from renowned artists like Damien Hirst, Richard Prince and Sarah Lucas. It has also provided a platform for jaw-dropping sales and deals, and is reported to generate sales in the area of $200 million. (International Herald Tribune)
Deutsche Bank Sponsors 'Richard Prince: Spiritual America' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sep 18, 2007
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Deutsche Bank today announced that it is the lead sponsor of Richard Prince's major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The exhibit, "Richard Prince: Spiritual America", highlights the artist's contribution to the development of contemporary art and brings together key examples of his photographs, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in an installation that integrates the various series of his oeuvre ... Artworks by Richard Prince have... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Goldman Backer Broad Says Hedge-Fund Losses Will Cut Art Prices at Auction Aug 18, 2007
Richard Prince, Peter Doig, Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu and Marlene Dumas have had rapid price rises that may deflate if the market turns down, auctioneers and collectors said. With a self-made fortune valued at $6 billion by Forbes magazine, he'll join new investors putting $1 billion into Goldman's fund after a 28 percent decline this month, the securities firm said on Aug. 13. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Art Dealer Daniella Luxembourg Urges Buyers to Be Wary of `Uber-Marketing' Aug 8, 2007
Richard Prince, Peter Doig, Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu and Marlene Dumas have had rapid price spikes that may make them vulnerable if the market turns down, auctioneers and collectors said. Her London sale of Berlin art, ``Lonely Prophets, German Art From 1910 to the 1930s,'' includes works by Kirchner, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz and Christian Schad, being sold by Italian, German and U.S. collectors and valued at ``tens of millions of pounds,'' she said. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Art Dealer Sells Raphael for $37 Million, 100,000 Times the Price He Paid Jul 6, 2007
Adam Sender focuses on living artists from Richard Prince to the Tobias Brothers. Rare Raphael. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Huge bids smash modern art record May 17, 2007
New records were also set for artists including Richard Prince, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis and Dan Flavin. Andy Warhol's Lemon Marilyn goes under the hammer on Wednesday. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Rothko, Bacon Smash Records at Sotheby's `Crazy' $255 Million Art Auction May 16, 2007
Last night's sale, more electric than either of last week's, set 15 artist records, including for Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Cecily Brown, John Baldessari and Morris Louis. The previous high of $239. (Bloomberg -- US)
Modern art by the shedload in DIY tycoon's space Mar 24, 2007
5m on a Jeff Koons, and then there was $1m for a Richard Prince. He tells these details with gusts of laughter and evident enjoyment. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Speaking volumes about their work Mar 19, 2007
Many famous names are included among the 150 artists represented: Max Ernst , Marcel Duchamp , Marcel Broodthaers , Andy Warhol , Sol LeWitt , Sigmar Polke , and Richard Prince , to name just a few. Collectively, the works in "Transgression/Excess" produce an enthralling pandemonium of forms and contents. (Boston Globe)
Local art aficionado shares his collection with UNM students Jan 19, 2007
There's also a written piece by Richard Prince that reads, "Fireman (pulling drunk out of a burning bed): You darn fool, that'll teach you to smoke in bed! Drunk: I wasn't smoking in bed, it was on fire when I laid down.". In the next room, there's a yellow ball made from gaffer's tape that reads, "pro model." Page 1 of 2. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
The new culture vultures Jan 1, 2007
Prominently displayed was his newly installed collection, which ranges from Richard Prince to Jeff Koons. In the fast-shifting sands of New York's moneyed classes, the explosion of hedge fund wealth has created a new financial pecking order. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Turning Hedge Fund Dollars Into Works of Art Dec 13, 2006
A few days later, he gave a private dinner for art world notables in his $19 million apartment at 740 Park Avenue, one of the city;s most prestigious co-ops, where he displayed his collection, which ranges from Richard Prince to Jeff Koons. In the fast-shifting sands of New York;s moneyed classes, the explosion of hedge fund wealth has created a new financial pecking order. (Shoals TimesDaily)
A Year Of Awesome Auctions Dec 10, 2006
In November Phillips de Pury banked $41 million at its contemporary art sale, setting an astonishing 61 records for cutting-edge works, including those by Julian Schnabel and Richard Prince. More On This Topic Companies. (Forbes)
The monster we're lucky to have Nov 28, 2006
The whole thing is like one of the American artist Richard Prince's paintings of one-line jokes: you look, you smile, you move on ... And Richard Prince is the most overrated American artist of his generation. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Photog Takes A Fall For Art Oct 19, 2006
Thursday, October 19, 2006 Last Update: 07:00 PM EST. MORE SHOCKING MADONNA NEWS. (New York Post -- Gossip)
The Getty Opens Up to a Slice of America PHOTOS Oct 9, 2006
2 million for a Richard Prince. But the Getty has generous donors, including the Bermans. (Los Angeles Times)
The New Art Sharks Aug 25, 2006
Want a coveted work by New York photographer Richard Prince or the hot Los Angeles multimedia artist Mike Kelley. They're up fivefold or more in recent years: Prince's works now top $1 million, and hedge fund manager David Ganek is one of two buyers who paid $688,000 for a copy of a 1991 Kelley photo series at the New York auctions in May. (BusinessWeek)
Shakers: Art fair opens to public after stampede of buyers Jun 15, 2006
Art fair opens to public after stampede of buyers LONDON: Art Basel opened Wednesday to the public after a series of private viewings Tuesday in which buyers stampeded the stands of PaceWildenstein, Barbara Gladstone and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, acquiring works by Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince and Georg Baselitz. More than 100 jets were booked for the fair, said Mark Booth, chief executive of the European unit of NetJets, the fleet operator owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Basel Art Fair May Sell More Than $300 Million Jun 15, 2006
New York's Barbara Gladstone sold four or five pieces in 30 minutes, she said, including a large 2006 Richard Prince collage, ``I'm Not Sure,'' featuring canceled checks. A collector was coming to claim an Anish Kapoor metallic panel, she said. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Contemporary Art: 12 records, and much applause May 19, 2006
Two lots down, one more world auction record was established for a large canvas in acrylic and silkscreen inks done by Richard Prince in 1989. Six lines of blue-green text run across a solid orange surface reproducing a joke that begins "Good News and Bad News." But the price, $1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Broad Buys Warhol `Soup Can' in $143 Million Christie's Auction May 11, 2006
There were 10 records for artists, including Richard Prince, Mike Kelley and Brice Marden. Record-high estimates were not an obstacle for determined bidders, but there were cases when auctioneer Christopher Burge was pulling teeth. (Bloomberg)
Paint, by Numbers May 10, 2006
In the past two years, high prices and soaring volumes of sales caused collectors to hesitate bidding on works by Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince and Marlene Dumas. But none of those artists have lost their cachet, argues gallery owner Deitch. (SmartMoney)
The new cheap medium Apr 29, 2006
75 million, established last November at a Christie's auction for "Untitled (Cowboy)" by contemporary American photographer Richard Prince, a rephotograph of a Marlboro ad. "Untitled (Cowboy)" was the first photo to break past the million-dollar mark. (Toronto Star)
Steichen Photograph Sells for Record $2.9 Million at Sotheby's Feb 16, 2006
In November, an untitled 1989 artwork by Richard Prince, a photograph of part of a 1970s Marlboro cigarette advertisement, sold in a contemporary art auction for $1. 24 million. (Bloomberg)
The fine art of investing is about money, not taste Jan 29, 2006
These days, many collectors are spurning 19th century impressionists such as Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir, who were all the rage during the 1970s and 1980s, and opting for works by contemporary artists like Elizabeth Peyton and Richard Prince. "You can't commodify art like corn or soya beans," says Andrew Fabricant, an art dealer at the Richard Gray Gallery in New York, whose inventory includes works by Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock. (Business Report, South Africa)
