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Sotheby’s Doesn’t Know
How to Copy and Paste Got Punked

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Kyle Chayka

Sotheby’s Inc. posted a Craigslist ad for “a Skilled and dedicated Administrative Assistant” last night and failed. Indeed they do need an administrative assistant, because this one doesn’t know how to ctrl+c ctrl +v. The post contains an entire gchat conversation of Employee 1 attempting to instruct Employee 2 on how to copy and paste text into a document. […]

Invader’s “Hong Kong Phooey” Sells for Big Bucks

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Bucky Turco

When Invader was in Hong Kong last year, the French street artist peppered that city’s public spaces with his signature 8-bit style mosaics, including renditions of Hanna-Barbera cartoon great Penrod “Penry” Pooch (or as he’s better known to the world, Hong Kong Phooey). The illegally-installed work was eventually taken down by the Highways Department and […]

Bansky Renovates His Site, Relaunches Another and Reveals Other Interesting Tidbits

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Bucky Turco

Art magnate Banksy finally has a fully functioning website again. The homepage of www.banksy.co.uk now sports a black and white illustration of a dying Dumbo surrounded by militants that fans may recognize from the parody video he released on day 6 of his Better Out Than In residency back in October of 2013. For that […]

Watch This Classical Music Bro Shred on a 45 Million Dollar Viola

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Marina Galperina

This is concert violinist David Aaron Carpenter playing Stradivari’s 300-year-old “MacDonald” viola, which is poised to be “the most expensive instrument in the world.” At Sotheby’s on Monday, Carpenter performed Isaac Albéniz’s 1892 “Asturias” with its “passages that sound like nothing so much as heavy-metal shredding.” “It’s the pinnacle of my career,” Carpenter said. “Every moment up until this point […]

Here’s a Giant Richard Serra Parked on a Truck in Chelsea

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Marina Galperina

Last night, the West 21st Street Gagosian Gallery started shipping out their Richard Serra installation. This meant that the throngs of people leaving opening receptions for bars and subways encountered a giant, famous slab of steel, strapped to a flatbed truck. Holy shit, you guys, Inside Out (2013) is outside! ANIMAL checked in on the truck this morning. […]

The Invasion of the Chinese
Auction Market

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Kyle Chayka

If you’re a major auction house like Christie’s and Sotheby’s (who isn’t!), you should be looking over your shoulder: China is coming for you. As its middle class grows, the country is doing to high-end art sales what it once did to manufacturing: adopting it and profiting from it. Today, the New York Times profiled the […]

Browsing Amazon’s New Fine Art Store

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Kyle Chayka

There have been rumors of Amazon selling fine art for some time now and at some point last night, the marketplace went live, offering more than 40,000 works from over 4,500 artists supplied by more than 150 galleries and dealers. The works range from relatively affordable artworks to the multi-million dollar price range. At the moment, […]

Andy Warhol’s First Sketch Ever Is on eBay

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Kyle Chayka

Sometime last year, Andy Fields stumbled upon what he claims to be an early sketch by internationally renowned artist Andy Warhol. The sketch was purchased as part of a series of unidentified drawings and has since been sent to the Andy Warhol Foundation for authentication. However, despite the opinions of numerous experts from auction houses […]

Basquiat’s Amazingly Crappy Resume Just Sold for $50,000.00

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Julia Dawidowicz

By the tender age of 20, NYC art scene up-and-comer Jean-Michel Basquiat was well aware that it’s who you know — not silly things like experience, education, or fancy resume templates — that counts. With references like Andy Warhol, Blondie, Tennessee Williams and Dick Tracy (huh?), we can only imagine young SAMO’s amusement as he […]

CooperUnion.Biz Parody Site Is Still Hilarious But Sad

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Marina Galperina

“Soon enough I won’t have to deal with any of you fuckers,” quoth President of the Cooper Union Jamshed Bharucha on the fake CooperUnion.Biz website. The rest is an Onion-esque spectacle echoing the students’ dismay that for the first time in 154 years, Cooper Union plans to charge tuition. It just really needs updates. At this point in the conflict, […]

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Search Results for: sotheby's

Sotheby’s Doesn’t Know
How to Copy and Paste Got Punked

Invader’s “Hong Kong Phooey” Sells for Big Bucks

Bansky Renovates His Site, Relaunches Another and Reveals Other Interesting Tidbits

Watch This Classical Music Bro Shred on a 45 Million Dollar Viola

Here’s a Giant Richard Serra Parked on a Truck in Chelsea

The Invasion of the Chinese
Auction Market

Browsing Amazon’s New Fine Art Store

Andy Warhol’s First Sketch Ever Is on eBay

Basquiat’s Amazingly Crappy Resume Just Sold for $50,000.00

CooperUnion.Biz Parody Site Is Still Hilarious But Sad

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