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“Art is what you can get away with” -Andy Warhol September 15th, 2008 — Artists, Collecting, News: International, Sculpture/Installation Damien Hirst, The Explosion - Exalted, 2006. Image: ionarts.blogspot.com VoCA loves reading FT art critic Jackie Wullschlager’s take on things.

Following the trend of commercial galleries collaborating with the auction houses (lest the auction houses overtake them - see VoCA posts HERE and HERE ), in Montreal, the Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC) is going to be organizing an exhibition between its members and Ritchies Auction House.

“Queen Mary” $500 1911 is One of Only Three Known to Exist Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries will offer one of the rarest Canadian notes ever printed, the “Queen Mary” $500 1911, in their upcoming Long Beach Currency Signature Auction, to be held September 17-19, 2008.

Fresh of making $4.2 billion for the recently completed wireless spectrum auction, Industry Minister, Jim Prentice has gone on record and said: “There is what I refer to as the 700-series bandwidth, there is an auction of that which will happen at some point in the future … as I recall, it’s about 18

Like any good federally-sanctioned frequency spectrum auction should do, the recently-wrapped Canadian AWS (advanced wireless spectrum) spectrum was auctioned off in hopes of sparking competition and driving down wireless prices from Canadian carriers like Rogers, Telus, and Bell.

The Canadian auction for the 2GHz wireless spectrum has ended and confirmed the creation of a new carrier for the country, Industry Canada announced on Monday. The end of bidding will see Globalive, which operates Yak Mobile in Canada but is primarily supported by foreign investments, pay $442 million

Round 328: Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction reaches $4,254,039,327. So close to being over today after 38 days of bidding. However, Rogers, Bragg Communications and Bell were going back and forth and have taken us into another weeks schedule. Perhaps the auction might end on Monday.

Round 300: Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction reaches $4,224,966,577 (three times as much as originally predicted). Rogers alone is close to $1b and rumours of Globalive bailing has started. In response to the rumours Globalive’s CEO Anthony Lacavera said: “We are absolutely not exiting the auction,

Round 241: Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction surpasses $4.2 billion. In addition, the schedule has been released for another week of bidding until July 18th.

The Canadian Advanced Wireless Spectrum Auction, which commenced on May 27, is finally winding down. In its final stages, there's no surprise that current national providers Rogers, Telus, and Bell lead the bidding. But the most enticing part of the auction is the companies that come next in line; one or more of which will become Canada's newest wireless carrier.