![Saltz as Low-Budget Collector: If it Quacks like a Richter . . .](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117045637im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/richter091130_560-150x150.jpg)
Saltz as Low-Budget Collector: If it Quacks like a Richter . . .
Art critic Jerry Saltz has gotten the collecting bug- but, not being able to afford the seven-figure prices of the Gerhard Richter paintings he craved, instead challenged artists to fake one for him. He details his trials and eventual success at commissioning a satisfyingly Richterian abstraction for $155, and the promise and challenge of what [...]
![Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117045637im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/richter-auction-150x150.png)
Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
From the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone has ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist . . . meanwhile, pop icon Andy Warhol had a bumpy night. Christie’s [...]
![Watching Paint Dry with Gerhard Richter](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130117045637im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/the-film.jpg)
Watching Paint Dry with Gerhard Richter
Recently, I went to a screening of the documentary Gerhard Richter Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Going into the film, I was downright scared that I would have a repeat experience of being completely bored out of my mind, which unfortunately was my experience with another recent documentary about Anselm Kiefer, a [...]