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Adam Lindemann’s Collection Rakes in $32 Million in an Unusual Christie’s Auction
It’s not every day that Christie’s sells Warhol paintings, a Jeff Koons sculpture, a Ducati motorcycle, a Royère sofa, and tribal art in a single sale. But it did yesterday as part of the sale of works from the collector Adam Lindemann, which brought in a total of $31.5 million for 36 lots, all of […]
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Rijksmuseum Pauses Ticket Sales for Its Vermeer Blockbuster After Fierce Demand Crashes Its Website + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, March 7. NEED-TO-READ Arte Povera Artist Dies at 80 – Italian artist Piero Gilardi died on Monday. The Arte Povera artist was well-known within in […]
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See the Modernist Masterpieces That Have Returned to View at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin After a Six-Year Hiatus for Renovation
The bustling city is visible outside its tall glass walls, but inside the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, there is a pristine kind of quiet. Little stirs except Alexander Calder’s large mobiles, which are gently spinning from an indiscernible wind. They are part of a monumental first exhibition at the German museum, which is opening for the […]
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Sculptor Alex Da Corte Brought a Bright Blue Big Bird to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Rooftop—See Images Here
In the 1985 film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird gets kidnapped by a traveling circus. Its owners paint him blue, cage him, and force him to sing the song “I’m So Blue” for their audience. Thankfully, Big Bird seems to have made his escape in Alex Da Corte‘s new roof garden commission for […]