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The night’s highest price among the three came for Olga de Amaral whose previous auction record more than doubled.
Firelei Baez had her record reset twice on Wednesday.
The 33-lot sale achieved a sell-through rate of 94 percent by lot, with a $14.3 million Joan Mitchell being the second priciest lot.
The exhibitions, performances, readings, and more are just a sliver of the more than 500 events in the nationwide Fall of Freedom series.
The entertainment company plans on displaying the toilet, saying its team is exploring “whether visitors may someday be allowed to use it.”
This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others.
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
A full-length portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt that had been estimated to sell for $150 million hammered for $236.4 million with fees at auction on November 18. The sale, at Sotheby’s new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York, set a slew of records. The amount is the highest ever paid at auction […]
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
The 17th-century instrument was to be auctioned this afternoon
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
“When I learned that there was a technique called honkadori, I thought it was interesting,” says Watanabe. “It seemed like an invasion or challenge to the idea of Western art and original works.” Read the full article by clicking above. The post Mitsuru Watanabe Interjects A Modern Perspective Onto Classic Paintings first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.
At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million.
The New York–based organization Anonymous Was a Woman (AWAW) has announced the fifteen recipients of its 2025 awards. The unrestricted $50,000 grants are presented annually to woman-identifying artists over the age of forty who have made outstanding contributions in their respective fields and who continue to make important work. AWAW has distributed more than $8 […]
Ripley’s said it was “flush with excitement,” calling “America” the most valuable object to join its collection.
With each record-breaking sale, the bar gets set higher, the stakes get sharper, and the frenzy deepens.
A newly commissioned work by Olafur Eliasson will kick off the initiative.
The L.A. Times says there’s been an exodus of trustees, but the museum says all is in order.
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That old auction-house maxim—“Good works always sell well at auction”—repeated by specialists before and after the sale, proved its worth this week.
Ortuzar, Tara Downs, and Jessica Silverman all added artists to their rosters this week.
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Touring New York’s artist-run spaces
