HONG KONG (Reuters) - A work by Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi sold for $9.66 million on Saturday, a new auction record for an Asian contemporary artwork, at auctioneer Christie's first evening sale of such art in Hong Kong.
Other records also fell as the auction brought a dash of black-tie glamour to the former British colony's art market, considered the world's third most important auction hub after New York and London.
Affluent Asian collectors were served champagne and canapes before bidding in a packed auction hall. The results suggested the Chinese art market remains resilient despite financial market jitters.
"There is a worldwide enthusiasm," said Jonathan Stone, Christie's International Business Director for Asian Art.
"If you look at the list of buyers in the top ten there were Asian private buyers, European private buyers, there was a very international flavor to the sale," he told Reuters.
The highlight of the evening was Zeng Fanzhi's large-scale 2-by-3.6 meter work entitled "Mask Series 1996 No. 6", which sold for almost triple its pre-sale estimate.
Several telephone bidders helped push the price to HK$75.37 million including the buyer's premium, making it the most expensive Asian contemporary artwork sold at auction, Christie's said.
Zeng's diptych of eight masked youths with red scarves linking arms, hints at Mao Zedong's "Little Red Guards" who wreaked havoc across China during its tumultuous Cultural Revolution.
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Stereophonics
Artist: Stereophonics
Genre(s):
Rock
Alternative
Pop
ROck: Alternative
Indie
Discography:
Pull the Pin
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
You Gotta Go There To Come Back
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
Private Session
Year: 2001
Tracks: 17
Just Enough Education to Perform
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Performance and Cocktails
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Word Gets Around
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
A brightly fresh noise in U.K. option edward Durell Stone in the '90s and into the new millennium, Stereophonics ar comprised of vocalist/guitarist Kelly Casey Jones, bassist Richard John Paul Jones, and drummer Stuart Cable (until the latter's replacement by Javier Weyler). They were formed in Cwmaman, South Wales, in the number one place as the teenager overcompensate band Tragic Love Troupe. Early reviews cited the Manic Street Preachers as their nearly obvious influence, and their initial mess of singles struggled to disabuse cynics of this whim.
Even so in Jones, Stereophonics own an able author as well as a vocalist of around distinction, a fact that was only when truly acknowledged next the release of their debut LP. One of the low bands on Richard Branson's
Friday 2 May 2008
Superheroes go back to work
Superheroes go back to work
Comic-book-hero flick company Wonder Studios has reached an lag agreement with the Writers Social club of America, enabling striking Hollywood writers to go back to work on their projects.
For Marvel, it substance that work can buoy take up on 'Ant Man', 'Captain America', 'Thor' and 'The Avengers'.
'Hulk' and 'Iron Man' were already in production and were not affected by the strike; they ar typeset for release later this year.
Flick and video studio Lionsgate, Hollywood's biggest indie producers, has as well reached an interim agreement with the lodge.
Upcoming Lionsgate films include 'Rambo', 'The Eye' and 'Saw 5', while its tv series admit 'Weeds', 'Mad Men' and a newly exhibit, 'Fear Itself'.
"The writers' issuing seems on its way to being solved, and Lionsgate felt it was an important clock time, peculiarly in scene of our TV series, to have our writer partners get back to work," Lionsgate said in a command.
"We wait forrad to a broad industry agreement soon," said a company example.
Writers already have reached lag deals with studios including United Artists, the motion picture production house backed by Gobbler Cruise and The Weinstein Co, persist by media-mogul brothers Harvey and Bobsled Weinstein.
Writers and producers resumed negotiation this hebdomad, aimed at ending a about three-month hit that has stopped to the highest degree prime time television production and just about hope smaller deals will put pressure on the big studios.
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