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...Britain. In an annual calculation by the German magazine Capital, the U.S. and Germany each have four of the world's 10 most widely exposed artists; France has none. An ArtPrice study of the 2006 contemporary-art market found that works by the leading European figure - Britain's Damien Hirst - sold for an average of $180,000. The top French artist on the list, Robert Combas, commanded $7,500 per work...
...means making in a way that a lot of artists no longer do. Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst don't lay a finger on much of what bears their names. They hand their ideas over to studio assistants or skilled fabricators. Puryear is his own skilled fabricator; he has brought carpentry, joinery and boatbuilding techniques into his art. He knows that's a retro virtue. "To get your hands dirty building something?" he asks. "You can buy that nowadays. So a lot of artists buy a very high level of craft from somebody else. They don't put themselves...
...developing nations, once penniless painters are getting used to this most unexpected emotion. The region's contemporary-art market has never been so hot. Last year, a collection of dreamlike portraits and landscapes by China's Zhang Xiaogang raked in just over $24 million - more than British enfant terrible Damien Hirst made in 2006. In March, a sale of modern Indian art in New York City raised a record $15 million, including just under $800,000 for Captives, a stark evocation of desiccated torsos by New Delhi-born Rameshwar Broota. Two months later, an auction in London elicited $1.42 million...
...wasn’t lacking in the London art scene this summer. You could have caught a glimpse at the Tate Modern’s Dalí exhibit, which highlighted his Hollywood aspirations. Or you could have strolled over the to White Cube Gallery and taken a gander at Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted platinum skull, “For the Love of God,” which recently sold for three-quarters of the budget of “Transformers.” See? Even the box-office revenues at the great European galleries were...
...next course on making the fine distinction between a Damien Hirst and a flash in the pan coincides with the Frieze Art Fair in London's Regent's Park (Oct. 11-13), where Sotheby's Institute will offer special guidance on Indian art and the Young British Artists; there's a parallel course for Russian speakers...