Art Market Watch

I was pretty astonished to see that one of my fellow Italian artist, Maurizio Cattelan, has sold one of his last works at Sotheby's for $ 7,922,500! A record for an Italian contemporary artist, especially considering he's one of his most famous works is "The ninth hour" where the Pope John Paul II gets hit by a meteorite...

Being Italian I am kind of flattered by all these money spent for his work, but the real question is: having all that money to spend...would you really buy his art and put it in your house?

They call it "Expressive Recycling"

Before moving to Fort Wayne last summer I lived in New York, both Manhattan and Brooklyn and I'm familiar with the Gowanus Area in Brooklyn where David Belt and his company MacroSea like making their eco-friendly art experiments.
Last year it was the Sea Pools and this year it's Glassphemy!
Since recycling it's boring this is a creative way to have fun while making the earth a better place. Check out the article and the video on the New York Times.
What do you think? I have to admit that I do like it!

A couple of ArtLink reminders:
Print exhibition will be running until May 26th, so if you haven't seen it yet...hurry!
Dont' forget on May 22nd the studio visit to one of Fort Wayne finest artists Terry Ratliff.

Your Stars of the arts

About a month ago TIME magazine selected three artists to watch on the occasion of the Whitney Biennal. The Whitney Biennal is an incredible window for new trends and artists where "contemporary" sometimes rhymes though with trivial and illegible.
Anyway to cut a long story short the three names to keep in mind are all women: Nina Berman (photographer), Kate Gilmore (video artist) and painter Lesley Vance.
Now...It'll be great to know which are YOURS three artists to watch in Indiana or Fort Wayne area!

It's been a while...

Our last post dates back to January, I know, it's a long time.
We are kind of re-thinking the blog and we want all of you to be an active part in it with comments and suggestions.
From now on we will definitely continue to update you on the upcoming events and openings at Artlink and those in the Fort Wayne art world, but we would also love to share with you some curious art news from all over the world, art trends and interview some artists too.
In the meantime, don't forget that until May 26th at Artlink you can taste the 30th Annual National Print Exhibition: Artwork from regional and national printmakers of the highest quality!

Got an idea for an exhibit? We would love to hear it!

Artlink's Artist Panel will plan another exhibit schedule in the coming months. Many times people share ideas with the staff at opening receptions and we thought maybe there could be a better way of doing this. So.... Artlink wants to know what exhibit ideas do you have? Yes, yes we know everyone wants a one person show but remember we are a non-profit attempting to show as many artists as possible so be creative and have some fun! The Artist Panel will be listening.

Community Resource Pages!

Check out Artlink's website to utlize all the new information added! We now have community resource pages that have art classes, gallery listing, lesson plans, artist websites and blogs. www.artlinkfw.com click on community resource on the leftside.

2nd Studio Visit in the new series!

Studio Visit Series with Sayaka and Christopher Ganz
Friday, November 6, 2009
Join Artlink as we tour Sayaka and Christopher Ganz’s studio and home from 6-9 pm. Hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided by Club Soda while attendees enjoy the couple’s artwork. Sayaka is featured in the InStudio portion of this newsletter and teaches at IPFW. Christopher works with printmaking and drawing and is also a professor at IPFW. Tickets are $10 for Artlink Members and $15 for non-members. Download the reservation form today!