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$50,000 for Apple Sneakers, Six Figures for a 2007 iPhone—the Resale Market for the Tech Giant’s Products Is Hitting New Heights
A spate of vintage Apple products—ranging from high-tech to no-tech—have sold for eye-watering sums at auction recently, or soon will, as the secondary market for older items from the tech giant skyrockets and shows no signs of tapering off. Let’s take stock. One sale, on through August 24 at RR Auction, is offering an Apple-1 […]
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JTT, the New York Gallery Known for Minting Star Artists, Is Closing After More Than a Decade
In a surprise move, Tribeca’s JTT gallery, known for discovering up-and-coming artists, will close at the end of next week after over a decade in business. “It has always been our mission to exhibit visionary work and present exhibitions in which we believe without compromise, and we are so proud that this remarkable project has […]
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How Surrealist Artist Leonora Carrington Carved Her Space in a Male-Dominated World
Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Midnight Publishing Group News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join us every week for an in-depth look at what matters most in museums, the art market, and much more, with input […]
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7 Questions for Senegalese Artist Soly Cissé on How the Rise of the West African Art Scene Is Reshaping Local Communities
Hailing from Dakar, Senegal, contemporary artist Soly Cissé maintains a practice unrestricted by disciplinary boundaries. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage, the context and themes of his work are deeply rooted in his life growing up in Dakar as well as the socio-political history and present of Senegal. His earliest works, made as a […]
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The Artist Xu Zhen—Prankster, Publisher, and Museum Founder—Has Returned to the Exhibition Stage With a New Show in China That Captures Our Need for Connection
The art prankster Xu Zhen—who gained notoriety for trademarking his name as a brand and is sometimes hailed as “China’s Maurizio Cattelan”—has, after a period of focusing on facilitating other artists’ careers, made a comeback with a new solo show, this time enthralling audiences at the G Museum in Nanjing with paintings of social media […]