Tom Flynn
Blog URL http://tom-flynn.blogspot.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags art, sculpture, art market, contemporary art, museums, cultural heritage, auctions, collecting
Informed comment and analysis on art and its markets
Latest Blog Posts
- Funky caryatid brings British Museum director out in the rain on Nov 23, 2009 in Parthenon Marbles British Museum Restitution Repatriation Cultural Heritage Neil MacGregor
At first it appeared to be just another tourist strolling through the grounds of the British Museum as 26-year old American graduate student Mary Phillips, the daughter of a Greek immigrant, conducted her one-woman peaceful protest appealing for the...
- Nationalism, cultural hybridity and a hole in the ground: James Cuno at the London School of Economics on Nov 18, 2009 in Cultural nationalism British Museum James Cuno Repatriation Cultural Heritage
James Cuno (left), director of the Art Institute of Chicago, seems to spend more time travelling the world promoting his books than he does looking after the encyclopedic collections over which he presides. Yesterday evening an audience of around 60...
- "They came like thieves in the night" – How ABN Amro impounded €40 million worth of art from Dutch museum on Oct 22, 2009 in Pieter Nijman Lakeman Lehman Brothers Salvadore Dali Art Theft Central Dirk Scheringa. Scheringa Museum of Reliast Art Tamara de Lempicka
As the specialist art press busies itself with yawn-inducing non-stories such as Tracey Emin’s feeble 'defence' of Damien Hirst’s critically demolished paintings at the Wallace Collection, a story with rather more significant implications for the...
- Scheringa Museum for Realist Art raided by bailiffs on Oct 21, 2009 in Dirk Scheringa. Scheringa Museum of Reliast Art
It looks for all the world like a nocturnal art heist, and I suppose in some respects that is what it is. But when a bunch of heavies arrived in a truck this week to empty Holland's Scheringa Museum of Realist Art of its entire collection, it offered...
- The New Art Market begins to take shape on Oct 17, 2009 in Art Market Correction art market Deloitte Hauser and Wirth Frieze Art Fair
We're nearing the end of Frieze week and the temperature seems to have risen slightly on the international art thermometer. Is the art market finally de-frosting after a year in the ice box? As usual, the press has been somewhat preoccupied with the...
- 'No Love Lost' between Hirst and his critics on Oct 15, 2009 in art market Wallace Collection Damien Hirst art investment
I was at an art investment conference yesterday at which one of the delegates shared an amusing and illuminating story about the artist Damien Hirst. It concerned a collector who had purchased one of Hirst's butterfly paintings for a large amount of...
- Clement Price-Thomas: 'The Guide' on Oct 3, 2009 in Premio Celeste Clement Price-Thomas
Clement Price-Thomas's The Guide, below, has just won the Installation, Sculpture and Performance Prize on the Premio Celeste art website.The Guide from Clement Price - Thomas on Vimeo.
