Posts by Category: Art

09 November

MSCHF Selling 1,000 Andy Warhol Sketches—But Only One of Them Is Real

Brooklyn-born arthouse hothouse MSCHF — short for mischief — lived up to its name again this fall when it challenged the art world’s capricious form of dollar valuation and absolute...

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19 October

Banksy’s Shredded Painting Fetches $25.4M at Auction

Peripatetic street artist Bansky is back in the art world news this fall with another high-dollar sale. His work Love is in the Bin went to a new bidder. The...

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18 May

Basquiat’s ‘In This Case’ Fetches $93.1M at Auction

A famous painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold at auction in New York this week for nearly nine figures. The work, titled In This Case and completed in 1983, went under...

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16 March

Digital Collage Fetches $69.3M at Auction; Payment Made Using Cryptocurrency

A work by artist Beeple—born Mike Winkelmann—that began as a career development project in 2007 and became a massive and complex piece called ‘Everydays’ sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million...

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06 March

Angelina Jolie’s Churchill Painting, a Gift From Brad Pitt, Shatters Expectations With $11.5M Sale

The Winston Churchill painting that went to auction courtesy of Angelina Jolie stirred a fiery competition that resulted in an expectations-shattering high bid. Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque topped out...

4391 March 6, 2021 Art more