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Walking Through Frieze with Amy Smith-Stewart
Riding the water taxi across the East River to Randalls Island for a VIP preview of the Frieze New York art fair (through May 13), curator Amy Smith-Stewart recalled that art fairs had already changed the art world ecosystem as early as eight years ago. Read More
Christie's Impressionists Find Ready Buyers
Christie's New York wrapped up the first week of major evening auctions with a $158.5-million sale of Impressionist and modern art. Even examples of middling quality inspired eager bidding. Fully 47 of the 50 works on offer found buyers over the 75-minute auction, with bidders competing, mostly by phone via Christie's staffers, from more than 30 countries. Read More
Sotheby's Rakes in 230 Million on Impressionists
Sotheby's kicked off the spring New York auction season last night with a $230-million, over-two-hour Impressionist and modern art sale that included a record price for a Marc Chagall work on paper and an auction record for Georges Braque, despite material on offer that two New York dealers described to A.i.A. as not of the highest quality. Read More
U.S. Debut, Forty-Five Years Later
A German artist who died young in 1968 but left behind a remarkable body of work is belatedly having his first U.S. solo show.
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Cherix Heads New MoMA Mega-Department, Butler Departs
Curator Christophe Cherix will be head of a new super-department of some 74,000 objects at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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Two slide carousels, 80 slides each, approx. 9-minute loop. Courtesy Callicoon Fine Arts, New York.
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