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Christie’s sums up the first half of 2025: revenue of $2.1bn, in line with the same period last year
Christie’s has sums up the first half of 2025: revenue came to $2.1bn, in line with the same period last year. As Christie’s chief executive Alex Rotter noted, the steady results were driven by increased demand for the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The most
In the Press · Art · New York
The Art Newspaper publishes a review of the results of the New York contemporary art sales
The Art Newspaper has published a review of the results of the New York contemporary art sales. According to the analytics platform Pi-eX, the combined revenue of Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips came to $1.27 billion, 8% less than last year. The star lot of the season,
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Museums · New York
Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480
Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480. In the nineteenth century the studiolo was bought by a German art dealer and taken to Venice. In 1939 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum
In the Press · Cinema · New York
The 10 Best Films of the 21st Century According to The New York Times:
1. Parasite, 2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho 2. Mulholland Drive, 2001, directed by David Lynch 3. There Will Be Blood, 2007, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 4. In the Mood for Love, 2000, directed by Wong Kar-wai 5. Moonlight, 2016, directed by Barry Jenkins 6. No Country for
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Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things
Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor
Architecture · The East · Heritage · New York · Society
Trump's Order Cutting Foreign Aid from the USA Has Struck Heritage Protection Programmes
Trump's order cutting foreign aid from the USA has struck heritage protection programmes. The US presidential administration plans to cut around $60 billion of foreign assistance, including the closure of almost half of overseas grants. One of the organisations affected is the New York-based World Monuments Fund:
New York · Education · People
Dmitry Shostakovich's First Symphony, which brought him worldwide fame, was written as a graduation project
The first performance took place in May 1926 and caused a sensation; before long the symphony was being played across the country and abroad, in Berlin, Philadelphia and New York. Thus the 19-year-old composer became known the world over.
Art · Cinema · New York
Wes Anderson's new film "The Phoenician Scheme" opens in New York and Los Angeles
Wes Anderson's new film "The Phoenician Scheme" has opened in New York and Los Angeles. Its hero, Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio del Toro), a charming swindler, hatches a grandiose transcontinental project, the "Phoenician Scheme". But his plan, as is the way of
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If This Infographic Is to Be Believed, Latino Zoomers Like Kamala Harris No Better Than White Zoomers Do
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They Say That Yesterday in New York
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In 1982, a wheat field sprang up in Manhattan, literally at the foot of the Twin Towers
The territory of a former rubbish dump, which was standing vacant at the time, had been allocated for the creation of an art installation. But instead of a sculpture park, the artist Agnes Denes chose to sow a hectare of land with wheat. With several assistants, Agnes cleared the required