Guaranteed Income for Artists, Superman Comic Sells for $3.25 M., and More: Morning Links from April 7, 2021
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Rare John Coltrane LP for Sale on eBay for $19,000
The album was purchased by the seller at a shop in New York.
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‘The Laptop Is Going to Replace the Velvet Rope’: Invaluable CEO on Partnering With Sotheby’s
After five months and 113 sales, Sotheby’s and eBay.com/Sotheby’s announced the results of their partnership with Invaluable, a company specializing in online-auction technology, reporting an…
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Morning Links: How To Sell A Banksy Edition
An exceptionally thorough profile of Jerry Saltz. [Capital New York] The Kravises have purchased Jasper Johns’s Painted Bronze (1960) from the artist, and promised to donate it to the…
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EBay Launches Its Live Auction Platform
Today eBay unveiled its new online auction platform, which aims to open up a rarefied market to the broadest possible audience, providing a virtual entrance to auction house salesrooms for…
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Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Ebay Try To Block Ninth Circuit Royalty Act Rehearing
Last Friday in San Diego, a joint effort between Christie’s, Sotheby’s and eBay attempted to move the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals away from rehearing a class of artists’ appeal to…
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eBay Bidder Buys 4chan Screenshot, as Art, for $90,000
CNET reports that an eBay customer has bid $90,900 for a screenshot of a post on 4chan. Titled Artwork by Anonymous, the work features a user’s musings on the value of art. “Art used to…
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Collecting in Cyberspace
The online art market is growing as auction houses and dealers rush to establish a presence on the Web. How have their investments paid off so far—and what do they hope to achieve in the future?
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RobbReport
How One California Winemaker Shaped America’s Love for Cabernet Sauvignon
WWD
Balenciaga Takes Crypto, the Rich’s Charities
Rolling Stone
Rudy Takes Break From Parade to Yell at Stranger on the Street
Sportico
UFC to Debut in France After Ten-Year Campaign Boosts Global Goals
SPY