Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary (Arts Journal)

A video recently posted on Sotheby's website, Contemporary Art Market: A Candid Look from the Inside , features a cast of five---the auction house's contemporary art team---looking chastened as they candidly discuss the disastrous November sales but try to calm market jitters by assuring sellers that "despite a worsening economic climate, if the right object comes to market, there's an enormous ...

The Australian Art Auction Market - Statistics for 2008 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Statistics from the Locker 227 database of Australian art auction records for the 2008 calendar year. Includes the top prices, the top artists by sales volume and total prices, and the biggest surprises of the year - the artworks and artists that exceeded the estimated prices.

Actuate Announces Final Results of Tender Offer (SYS-CON Media)

Actuate Corporation has announced the final results of its modified Dutch auction tender offer for up to $60 million of its common stock, which expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on Thursday, December 18th. Based on a final count by the depositary for the tender offer, a total of approximately 20.7 million shares of common stock (including shares tendered by notice of guaranteed ...

Minnesota farm land prices moderating with corn prices (High Plains Journal)

LUVERNE, Minn. (AP)--Bill Weber is owner and president of Jensen Management Inc., an appraisal company in the heart of Rock County, a transition area across the divide into Iowa.

BELOVED PETS EVERLASTING? ARE CLONED PETS THE REAL THING? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

BC-CALIF-CLONE-KING-ART-1050&ADD-NYT BELOVED PETS EVERLASTING? ARE CLONED PETS THE REAL THING? By ERIC KONIGSBERG (Eds: Some honorifics were retained for clarity.) (ART ADV: Photos NYT 8-9 are being sent to NYT photo clients.

How Monet, Freud, Hirst Records Led Art-Market Bubble to Burst (Bloomberg)

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Art prices extended a seven-year surge for much of 2008, with a Claude Monet painting of water lilies, Lucian Freud ’s portrait of a civil servant called Sue and a Francis Bacon triptych setting records.