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Cui Ruzhuo, 丹枫白雪 (Landscape in Snow) (2006), sold at Poly Auction in Hong Kong on April 7, 2014, for $23,725,710.Photo: artnet. Zeng Fanzhi, The Last Supper (2001) sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on October 5, 2013, for $23,269,070.Photo: artnet. Jin Shangyi, 百开团扇镜心 Tajik Bride (1983) sold at China Guardian… Read entire story.
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Art is secondary to partying for more people than you might think at Frieze London—as at any major art fair. Anyone who is—or wants to be—a hot ticket rocks up on the VIP days to see art and to be seen seeing art, before hobnobbing at the evenings’ gallery dinners, parties, and after-parties. The scene, like Art […]
Sotheby’s kicked off this month’s marquee New York auctions with two sales on Monday evening, one devoted to established contemporary artists, the other to emerging ones. Together, the two auctions brought in $267.3 million, for a total squarely within its pre-sale estimate of $241.8 million to $350.4 million. These were the first two big auctions […]
Museums have long been compared to mausoleums, lifeless places in which objects are permanently laid to rest. In most cases, this is true: artworks tend to spend a lot of time stacked in storage once they enter institutions. Edgar Calel’s 2021 installation The Echo of an Ancient Form of Knowledge (Ru k’ox k’ob’el jun ojer […]