Can Connoisseurship Survive in the Digital Age?
A collector reflects on a time before the data stream flooded over.
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Cy Twombly
Maximum Minimalism: Emily and Mitchell Rales’s Glenstone Museum Grows
With the completion of a roughly 200,000-square-foot expansion, the D.C.-area institution will rank as one of the most ambitious private museums in the world.
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Sotheby’s Pulls in $66.5 M. at Sleepy Contemporary Sale in London, Led by $8.4 M. Twombly
But a Basquiat estimated to sell for as much as $11.8 million failed to find a buyer.
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Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
A concise guide for notable exhibitions through December
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American Beauty: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Case of the Missing Flag
Robert Rauschenberg kept only one major example of his earliest, most influential body of work, the Combine paintings he made between 1954 and 1961. Short Circuit (1955) is similar to other…
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Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Hauls In $294.9 M., Setting Twombly Record at $70.5 M. in an ‘Infectious’ Salesroom
An enormous round of applause rang out in the Sotheby’s salesroom following its contemporary art evening sale tonight in New York, as the auction house wrapped perhaps the first solidly…
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Proceeds From Sale of $60 M. Cy Twombly Will Benefit Wilshire Boulevard Temple
On November 11, Sotheby’s in New York will sell Cy Twombly’s Untitled, 1968 (New York City), with estimated price exceeding $60 million, according to the auction house. The painting comes…
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Christie’s Nets $177.9 M. at Contemporary Sale in London, Led by $30 M. Twombly
It has been a roaring week for the contemporary art market in London. Last night, Sotheby’s sold £123.5 million (or about $188.2 million) worth of art at its annual postwar and contemporary…
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Christie’s Contemporary Art Sale Nets $852.9 M., All-Time Auction Record
Records fall for Twombly, Ruscha, Doig, Kippenberger, Sturtevant, Price, and more
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Christie’s “Staggering” Contemporary Auction Makes Record $853 Million
The lively two-hour-and-fifteen-minute sale tallied $853 million, the highest total for an auction in any category. Along the way, records were achieved for 11 artists. "It was a really well-managed…
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This $150 Million Hamptons Estate Comes With Two Mansions, Two Pools and One Infamous Beachfront
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Virgil Abloh to Be Celebrated in Nordstrom’s Latest Pop-up
Rolling Stone
MAGA Lawmaker Who Tried to Overturn Election Says the Feds Seized His Phone
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NBA’s Recent Valuations Surge Still Can’t Match NFL Cash: Data Viz
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