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'there is only one thing i know,is i do not know' (Socrates) about the world, the way people live,art & finance. IG @collectionservais managed by Lorraine de T
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"Video art market:the right time to reform the legal&technological infrastructure"Kindly reprinted by Pieter Niemann
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A hero-Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong says he expects to be arrested at any time. Pro-democracy campaigner fears he will be sent to one of Beijing’s ‘black jails’ via
@financialtimes
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Courageous statement by Garage in Moscow, one stone throw away from the Kremlin
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Can there be more dramatically conservative painting than this Anna Weyant? Can one be so young and so old? A disgraceful look of the current ultra contemporary art market in the mirror.
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Wise words by someone who knows
#MUSTREAD
-FYI: NFTs r a sales mechanism, not a medium. The boom in non-fungible tokens is diminishing public understanding of what digital art actually is. By Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of digital art
@whitneymuseum
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What a treat to enjoy the fantastically generous performance of Rosalia yesterday in Brussels 🤩👏👏
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When I am considering a work of art for more than 5k$, I am asking myself one single question: is there any chance someone will want to look at this in 30y time? The answer is subjective but for 95% of what I saw at Independent, I can confidently answer NO
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Fascinating-How Vincent van Gogh’s Market Was Tirelessly Built by His Sister-in-Law, Jo; Via Sarah Bochicchio
#FillingUpMyArtHistoryGaps
via
@artsy
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👏👏 Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, & Other A-List Artists R Raising Money for Reproductive Rights With a Provocatively Titled Exhib. The two-part show is a response to a growing number of laws limiting access to reproductive care across US. By
@sarahecascone
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New $125 million program offers guaranteed income for NY artists. 2,700 artists will benefit from steady monthly stipends and paid positions. Applications open in early 2022.
#UniversalIncome
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Insane images-The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year. Maya Gabeira didn’t just ride the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman. It was the biggest wave surfed by anyone in the 2019-20 winter season, a first for women in professional surfing.
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Nature is creeping back. Look at what I find in my garden right now in central Brussels 👍
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Alex Katz's Quiet Philanthropy Has Made a Huge Impact. By buying mid-career artists' work&putting it on museum walls—while at same time donating millions in funds&art to the institutions—the painter has been supporting an entire ecosystem under the radar.
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5th time tdy gallerists introduce me to art the same way: 1st explaining me how the artist or his/her studio fabricated it 2nd by telling me which unknown museum she/he has been showing at or will show or showing the 5 lines review in Artforum 🤮🤮 ART IS ABOUT IDEAS 💡
#Frieze
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A totally insane amount of masterpieces
@sharjahart
Biennial. My favs Part 1: Doris Salcedo about the illegal immigrants, first isolated then aggregated artificially to create a house that no one can inhabit.
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Embarassing it is not? And you need to spit 550000usd for them at White Cube London😳. But they will sell like the Tracey Emin's scribbles backed up by her life story. This is what sells those days...Where is the art?
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250k$ for such a painting by an artist I never heard about and with a tiny bio. Yes gallery branding counts...
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Very happy to have installed
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
"Untitled" (Fortune Cookie Corner), 1990
May, 25, 2020
at LOFT Brussels-Servais Family Collection
with the invaluable help of Erika and Dragos Olea (Apparatus22)
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Gormley, Warhol, Turner, Freud…Just how repetitive and unimaginative the culture offering and coverage is, including
@guardian
! The chicken and egg syndrom: a situation coming from public conservatism and apathy or the reverse?
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Did the auction houses previews yesterday. Shocked 😵💫 by how connaisseurship is gone, relegated to the marginal & fashion, luxury & NFT fad Is prominent 🤑. Never thought I wld ever say art looked better presented at Phillips. Sotheby’s, a disgrace 🥴
#Frieze
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Astoundingly superb Soutine-de Kooning exhibition
@MuseeOrangerie
. I didn’t have any idea de Kooning was so influenced. Unforgettable & unmissable. Thank you to
@FIAC
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I will get the shot as soon as available to me-Fighting Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience, One Viral Video at a Time. On the social media frontlines with anti-anti-vaxxer Zubin Damania, aka ZDoggMD. By Thomas Buckley via
@BW
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The most overrated art I have seen today : Cecily Brown at the Met and those references to the classic are just perfect for those wanting they are looking at contemporary art while not going too far from their old-dated references
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Marian Goodman Gallery, Lisson Gallery, 303 Gallery and Regen Projects today mourn a great artist, Dan Graham, who sadly died this weekend in New York.
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Waow waow waow! Stop Press! Marlene Dumas
@Palazzo_Grassi
is ASTOUNDING 🤩🤩 If there must be one painter let it be Marlene Dumas, particularly when in her masterpieces like here. And this booklet written by her open a door in every painting
#VeniceBiennale
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Beyond the wall: a golden period of exchange btwn Mexican & US artists is revisited in new show.
@WhitneyMuseum
will explore the enduring influence of artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros on US counterparts incl. Jackson Pollock & Philip Guston.
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The Pandemic Sparked a Golden Age of Crypto Scams. Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks. By
@ben_mckenzie
&
@SilvermanJacob
Follow
@newrepublic
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Hong Kong's M+ Museum Has Removed Ai Weiwei's Famous Tiananmen Square Photo From Its Website While It Awaits Government Review. The development coincides with news that the long-awaited museum will open on November 12. By
@VivienneChow
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A treat to attend the opening of Sarah Sze
@Fond_Cartier
. In-depth knowledge as they exhibited her for the first time almost 20y ago and such thorough and inspiring double installation
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Marian Goodman will honor the late Okwui Enwezor with the launch of a new initiative to create educational&research opportunities for Black,Indigenous&People of Color (BIPOC) curators. The initiative is conceived by Steve McQueen, in partnership with Independent Curators Intl
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There is another way to run a gallery. Don’t miss those extraordinary wishes by brilliant Jocelyn Wolff
@galeriewolff
😍😍
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«I did not do Art Basel Miami last year;I did not even apply for HK. I know what my gallery is worth. I know what I can do for my artists. I do not need the fair stamp. My advice to young art dealers is: Do what is right for u. U have to say no at some point» Johann König
@artnet
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In my opinion this is the most distressing and explosive art market story OF THE YEAR and almost no one posted it, re-posted it in other media nor commented on it. Is it another case of convenient art market omertà?
You can find the thrilling investigation by
@NFreeman1234
in the otherwise excellent
@artnet
Art Intelligence Report. To be honest it makes me wanna throw up 🤮
#MUSTREAD
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The hilarious but so true tale of Vienna-based Benjamin Kaufmann at the edges of the contemporary art market
#MUSTREAD
-Why I Stopped Being A Collector (And Started To Collect) – via
@Ind_Collectors
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.
@ArtBasel
launching initiative in partnership with Kickstarter designed specifically for visual arts non-profits
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The statement of the day at
#VeniceBiennale
at Israel 🇮🇱 pavilion: the artists decided without warning not to open the pavilion half financed by Netanyahu’s government before…
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Jens Haaning, A Danish artist has pocketed 534,000 kroner ($84,000) in cash that he received from a museum to incorporate into an artwork and changed the name of the installation to “Take the Money And Run.”.
via
@luxury
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Graffiti in Hong Kong, which reads:
‘We can’t return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.’ Via
@ICALondon
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😬« It’s sad that maybe only 8% of the collectors today actually enjoy discussing art and asking questions. In a way, as specialists, we have so much to give. We have learned so much over the years. But now a lot of people don’t really care » Loic Gouzer via
@AndrwGoldstein
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At Chart i thought I had discovered a young artist rending beautifully the distorted visions by new tech. I discovered Tishan Hsu is 71 at his first solo at Miguel Abreu with a first career in the 80’s. Prices in the 90 to 275K $ range. They r special. Check them out.
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Still in Venice and the Biennale. Beautiful sights while visiting exhibs in town 🤩🤩
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👊👏 « The art world needs insightful criticism all the more today—have a look at how much mediocrity slips into the precincts of market success. » By Allan Schwartzman
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.
@JerrySaltz
Once Called Artforum Ads 'the Porn of the Art World.' A New Show Brings Together Some of the Best—See Them Here. Brooklyn-based Gallery 98 is displaying a time capsule of the art world in form of old Artforum advertisements from 1970 to 2010
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😥😥 I had the sadness to learn tdy that the legendary conceptual collector Herman Daled is deceased. He always was a model for me&his words were essential to my art development. His collection was acquired as a whole by
@MuseumModernArt
. Enjoy his words
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Cindy Sherman is in my opinion one of the most important artists active in the last 40 years: inventivity, expérimentation, consistency, relevance. I have never enough of her and the super-production
@FondationLV
is a
#MUSTVISIT
🤩🤩
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My podcast for gym tomorrow-How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World. The dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them. By
@PRaddenKeefe
| The New Yorker
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New Forensic Architecture Report Disputes Israeli Evidence at ICJ Hearing. By
@reallifemaggie
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Barkley L.Hendricks is such a master 🤩 and he makes it impossible to me to value Jordan Casteel or Amy Sherald like the fashion market does 😬
A pair of overlooked artists became friends in the 1970s. Now a portrait of one by the other just sold for a record $6.1 million
@ChristiesInc
. via
@WSJ
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In my finance world, we call this a boiler room...
NEW: Christie's has officially announced that Metakovan, the pseudonymous founder and financer of Metapurse, the largest NFT fund in the world, successfully bid and acquired
@beeple
's 'EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS' for $69.3 million (or about 42329 ETH)
@ChristiesInc
#NFT
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"I don’t think fairs should actually be reviewed. They’re not exhibitions. They’re sales. Ditto auctions." by
@jerrysaltz
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Sad joke for art-«I’ll Have What She’s Having (2020),an abstract painting by the 31y-old British artist Flora Yukhnovich,sold for £2.3mln to phone bidder after a 10-min competition among 10 contenders.Price was nearly 3X the high est.&almost triple the artist’s previous record»
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Grayson Perry: ‘I am nostalgic for a time when art galleries were empty’
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The art world is in need of a strong critical culture. The art world is in need of a strong critical culture. As a critic myself, I’ve been snubbed at soirees, disinvited from dinners and cold-shouldered at cocktail receptions, writes
@GronlundMelissa
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Probably the most underrated gallery in NY is
@PostmastersNYC
and its storming soul Magda Sawon. I would never miss an exhibition when in town: always challenging as it must be,at the right price (taking NY rents into account=more expensive art than elsewhere in world). GO & BUY
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No doubt IMO the masterpiece presentation in
@Artbasel
. Astounding group of early Cady Noland at Jeffrey Deitch. 1.2 to 3.5 mln usd 🤩🤩🤩🤩 I ll go to sleep again thinking about them
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Turns out, ppl really want to see art! 🥳 After news broke that German museums would b permitted to reopen on March 9, demand for tickets was so high that it crashed the servers at the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
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Just vaccinated with the Pfizer version 🥳🥳 Why would you not do your part too? 🙏🙏
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« What is art for? » by Candice Breitz 🤩 extracted from
@TANaudio
by
@benlukeart
. How many NFTs bros are even trying to create art as such defined? Why does the art press keep describing NFTs as art? Nothing to do with elitism or gatekeepers! Just 🍎 & 🍐
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Investment bank analysts are doing a far better job of pointing out the problems with capitalism than any left-wing politician. Via
@johnauthers
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Inspiring by
@michaelshermer
-Utopia is a dangerous ideal: we should aim for ‘protopia’, incremental progress in steps toward improvement, not perfection – via
@aeonmag
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OMG 😳 This Basel Social Club is so huge and underground. U r forgetting you are even in Switzerland 🥳 This will be the must-go event of the week. It is on Google map already. 10min walk from Messplatz. And Guillaume Bijl dj-ing 🤣 Don’t miss
#ArtBasel
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Nightmare day in my email box: after 300+ previews last week, 300+ announcements that Art Basel
#OVR
VIP days r opening. And Friday I will get the same for the opening of public days. Without forgetting NADA & UNTITLED! They r all going straight to the trash. What use is it for?
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I love the snub🤩-As part of his collaboration with IKEA on a collection of home objects that will launch on November 1, the designer Virgil Abloh has created a backlit artwork featuring a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. via
@artnet
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🙏If u cld change 1 thing abt the art world,what wld it b?
The media fascination with the art of the 1% of 1%.The column inches devoted to just a handful of megagalleries&market superstars far outweigh those given to everyday gamechangers that most readers can actually relate to.
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🤩The best piece I hav ever read abt the vulnerability of the creative class/artist in the broader socio-economic context of society as a whole.
#MUSTREAD
-The Artist Isn’t Dead. Eulogies for the creative class r premature. Art workers can organize—& survive
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There r many things I wld like to understand about Americans: why so much ice in drinks (good for the ones selling them), why they love guns, speak so loud in restaurant, elect Trump. But tdy nothing more than what they find in those tons of useless painting at the Armory? 😳
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Takeaway
#10
:What a perfect way to end an unforgettable art day&week:Golden Lion Pavilion for Lithuania underlining our general complacency when faced with a threat of end of the 🌍.A timely masterpiece which will no doubt stay THE work of this
#VeniceBiennale
#LithuanianPavilion
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On coronavirus lockdown? The top online museum and art tours to enjoy from home. If you are in self-isolation or your local galleries have closed, here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art. By Aimee Dawson
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11.30 am. An art fair is supposed to provide its gallerists clients with VIPs in the right mood to transact in the first few hours. If you r
#Frieze
run by an event company you bring in at the very VIP opening an insane crowd of socialites. Frieze showed where it is standing 👎
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If u need to read only one to understand the relationship of NFTs with art & art history.
#MUSTREAD
-Token Gesture.
@TinaRiversRyan
on NFTs via
@artforum
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Oh noooooooo 😰 Not another online viewing room 😱 and in addition they will all send emails with their pdf attached 🤬 mailbox clogged
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How Marfa Went From Donald Judd's Anti-Commercial Escape to a Mecca of Luxury Minimalism. By
@chaykak
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First few hours
@sharjahart
biennial and already unforgettable art works and experiences. Deep research, heartfelt sensitivity and deep pockets for absolutely perfect production and installation. Be sure not to miss it before June 11th. I am serious! 🙏🙏
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Test of the day: point to me anybody looking at the art at this very early supposedly VVIP day at Frieze NY 🤯. Is there a point for galleries to pay that much to pay for a « art people » gathering 1 mile from their galleries? 😜🤔
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Deserved-An exemplary canvas by Robert Colescott was acquired by Art Bridges Foundation for $4.5 million at Bonham’s LA on Friday. Miss Liberty (1980) is a colorful exploration of American identity, racial equality&freedom that had largely been kept in private hands over 40 years
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Crypto collapse: Exchange troubles, Binance’s friends with machine guns. U shld assume that exchanges will act against their customers in absolutely any way they can get away with. This is, after all, the historical behavior of crypto companies of any sort
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The dark side 😬-‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models. Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals. By
@niamhrowe7
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OMG 😱How basic ArtBasel Viewing Rooms' navigation is: no drop-down menus for galleries or artists, every time u exit a room u r back at the top of the screen of galleries, no access to video art, no dialogue boxes with the gallerist, etc. Good it is free for gallerists!!
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Brilliantly thoughtful by
@jerrysaltz
but...see the thread-The Last Days of the Art World … and Perhaps the First Days of a New One Life after the coronavirus will be very different.
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Radical Friends is a DAO Summit for decentralisation of power and resources in the art world taking place on Saturday, January 22*, 2022 as a livestream via the Haus der Kunst in Munich in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut
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Fabulous pic-A drone image shows the area surrounding the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Via
@NationalGeoPicx
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Kader Attia appointed as curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The 12th Berlin Biennale takes place in 2022.
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My fav exhib in town for
#artbasel
:Algorithmic Present
@HeK_Basel
.Here Daniel Canogar animation of live CNN feed(shld b shown horizontal)
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Can someone make sense of this insanity? Anything remarkable about this painting no one could sell 2 years ago?
Matthew Wong (1984-2019)
Shangri-La
Price realised USD 4,470,000 😳
Estimate USD 500,000 - USD 700,000
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🤩The art world as I want it :community,collaboration,generosity👏-Zwirner May Disrupt Art Gallery Model With Click-to-Buy Business. Platform, which debuts Thursday, will sell 100 works of art a month online through smaller galleries,for $2,500 to $50,000.
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Mark down this study all those pretending that NFT are a widening of the audience. Just a concentrated Pump & Dump gambling circle
NFT oligarchy? A study of 6.1M NFT trades finds a few folks at the center of the market
🐱 The top 10% of traders account for 85% of transactions & trade at least once 97% of all assets
🦍10% of buyer–seller pairs have the same volume as the remaining 90%
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Great art is in museums, not on art fair floors even on Art Basel Groundfloor where so few can buy it anyway 😉. 1955,1962,1963, 1963
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Interesting mix of Cy Twombly's works from Foundation with Hellenic antiquities at Athens' Museum of Cycladic art curated by Jonas Storvse
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Lucky me
@MuseumModernArt
. The treat of listening to Sandy Rower touring his staff
@calderfdn
between the masterpieces by his grandfather. 🤩🤩
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Apologies to fellow collectors for poor original headline. Besides, I wld love to have a Picasso-Alain Servais Is on a Mission to encourage collectors to buy cutting-edge art and then make it available to the public. It's Not Going So Well. Via Naomi Rea
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