National Business Review, 16.11.2007
Major exhibition makes big splash in Melbourne
An incomplete World National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Until January 6.
by John Daly-Peoples
more Money Management, 31.5.2007
When art imitates life
There have been several instances in recent times regarding the financial services industry where the proverbial has hit the fan. One that springs to mind is the bun fight that happened between fund manager UBS and ratings house van Eyk over what were perceived as less than satisfactory product ratings.
more The Australian, 29.05.2007
Proudly brought to you by big business
A debate has ignited over the ethics of corporate sponsorship for exhibitions, writes Rosemary Sorensen. There was never a time like now to be a lover of the arts," writes Clive James in the preface to his new book, Cultural Amnesia, about why and which culture matters.
by Rosemary Sorensen
more Sydney Morning Herald, 26.05.2007
Money slips into the picture Money
Rich galleries and collectors seem to have a new mantra: never mind the painting, just look at the price tag. Such a work may be bought and sold with as little personal attachment as a parcel of shares.
by John McDonald
more Sydney Morning Herald, 21.05.2007
Bow tie was spinning
James Strong was rather chipper on Friday night given he had come from a two-day marathon Qantas board meeting when he addressed the hundreds gathered at the Art Gallery of NSW.
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Weekend Australian, 19.05.2007
The challenge to stay ahead
Controversial art purchases, such as the National Gallery of Australia's $7.4 million purchase of After Cezanne by Lucian Freud in 2001 or Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles in the 1970s, have long been a hallmark of contemporary art in Australia
by Penny McLeod
more Weekend Australian, 19.05.2007
Risks and an eye for excellence
When global financial services firm UBS began collecting art 30 years ago, the aim was simply to decorate its offices. It now owns over 3000 paintings and has a core 7 V collection of 1000 works that includes some of the world's biggest names in contemporary art.
by Penny McLeod
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Weekend Australian, 19.05.2007
Now you've just got to have art
Arts editor Miriam Cosic talks to international expert Tim Marlow about the booming market. It's not surprising Tim Marlow was distracted when he arrived in Sydney on Thursday.
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Weekend Australian, 19.05.2007
Modern Masters
An Incomplete World: Works from The UBS Art Collection celebrates the the best in contemporary art and is on show at the Art Gallery of NSW and later in Melbourne.
by Penny McLeod
more Weekend Australian, 19.05.2007
Images that changed us all
"Photography has changed the way we see the world. "
This oft-quoted dictum is given credence by many powerful photographs of war, such as Nick Ut's famous image of a naked Vietnamese girl fleeing from a village after a napalm attack, and poverty.
by Penny McLeod
more Daily Telegraph, 18.05.2007
Sharing the wealth
An Incomplete World: Works from the UBS Art Collection
John Olsen, the distinguished Australian painter, had a "great day" on Wednesday.
by Elizabeth Fortescue
more Australian, 18.05.2007
When bankers share cultural assets
Modern art from a rich corporate collection is being made available to public galleries across the world. Curator Wayne Tunnicliffe from the Art Gallery of NSW was delighted when told he could select works for an exhibition from one of the world's finest corporate art collections.
by Rosalie Higson
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Sydney Morning Herald, 17.05.2007
Capitalism's bargain basement image worth millions
The history of contemporary art is littered with bitterly ironic titles used by artists to demonstrate their cynicism toward modern life. So it is highly appropriate that the most expensive contemporary photograph in the world, with a market value of $US2.25 million ($2.7 million), goes by the name 99 Cent.
by Paul Bibby
more Australian, 17.05.2007
Curator spoilt by loan from bank
When Art Gallery of NSW curator Wayne Tunnicliffe was told he could select works from one of the world's best corporate art collections for an exhibition, he was like a boy in a lolly shop.
by Rosalie Higson
more Bulletin with Newsweek, 15.05.2007
Off the wall
A major international corporate art collector is mining jewels from its vast eclectic office holdings for an Australian exhibition.
The Investment banking giant UBS has something the great museums of the world don't have enough of - walls. (Well, OK, and money.)
more Sun Herald, 13.05.2007
Big business for art exhibition
Wayne Tunnicliffe, the Art Gallery of NSW curator, recently picked through the UBS art collection, one of the corporate world's finest; the result goes on show at the gallery on Saturday. An Incomplete World.
by William Petley
more New York Times, 11.05.2007
A Bank Oasis, in Rich Shades of Red
Edward Wood, left, used rich shades of red and highly textured white Jerusalem stone, right, in designing a new space for UBS that is dedicated to wealthy private clients.
by Claire Wilson
more The Independent, 07.05.2007
UBS Drawings at the Tate Modern: Life's truths lie between the lines
Since the spring of last year, Tate Modern has been collaborating with UBS, a Swiss investment bank. In May 2006, UBS underwrote the cost of re-presenting the four wings of Tate in which the permanent collection is displayed.
by Michael Glover
more LOOK, 04/2007
Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hirst, Ruscha and Freud on show at the AGNSW
AN INCOMPLETE WORLD highlights artworks from the last four decades which offer perspectives on the nature of contemporary life, of our world as it is today and the ways in which we live in it.
by Wayne Tunnicliffe
more Age, 05.02.2007
NGV masters private exhibition deal
Partnerships with corporate giants are working for public galleries, writes Gabriella Coslovich. Not since the National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Road re-opened to great fanfare in late 2003 has contemporary art figured so strongly on the exhibition calendar.
by Gabriella Coslovich
more International Herald Tribune, 02.01.2007
Networking through art
'Fewer people go to galleries, more to festivals and fairs'
Since its creation in 2002, Art Review magazine's authoritative Power 100, the annual ranking of those who hold sway in the art world, has included artists like Damien Hirst of Britain...
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