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Kickstart the New Year With 5 Fascinating Artists From the Midnight Publishing Group Gallery Network to Check Out This Month
Every month, we at the Midnight Publishing Group Gallery Network comb through our expansive platform and select five artists that catch our eye, and we think are ones to watch. With the New Year upon us, and more amazing art around now than ever before, this month’s group of artists is particularly exciting. All currently […]
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Which Country Had the Most Lucrative Art Market in the World Last Month? We Crunched the Numbers—and the Results Are Revealing
In a normal year, June would be the last hurrah before art-world denizens checked out for the summer. They’d activate their auto replies on the last VIP day of Art Basel before hitting the beach in the Hamptons or the Amalfi Coast (where they would probably surreptitiously answer emails anyway). This year, however, Basel was […]
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Decorative Art Sales Accounted for a Whopping $825 Million at Auction Last Month. What’s Driving the Boom?
By now, you’ve probably heard enough about how the marquee fine-art sales last month stacked up to pre-pandemic totals. But you may not be aware that there’s an even faster growing segment of the auction market: decorative art and design. Decorative art sales generated a total of $825 million at auction last month, up roughly […]
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Don’t Miss These 5 Landmark Works of Canadian Postwar Art Hitting the Auction Block This Month
Candian art history has a unique heritage shaped by thousands of years of artistic creation, early on by the First Nations Peoples, through the development of the Group of Seven—the landscape painters in the 1920s and ‘30s who pioneered a distinctly Canadian Modernism—and later through the embrace of international art movements in the 1960s. Founded in […]
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Robert Colescott’s Caustic Satire of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ Is Poised to Reset the Artist’s Market at Sotheby’s Next Month
The late American painter Robert Colescott’s charged satire of Washington Crossing the Delaware will hit the auction block next month—and it is poised to smash the late artist’s current auction record. George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook, as the artist’s landmark 1975 canvas is called, is set to highlight […]