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Katya Kazakina

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Katya Kazakina

@artdetective

3 years

How #TOP inspired a new generation of #Asian art collectors - my profile of the Korean pop star is out on @artnet

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When K-pop star T.O.P visited L.A. earlier this month, he stopped by this secret artists building. My scoop: #top #mohilefstudios

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On the opening day of @friezeofficial in Seoul, I thought I'd share my profile of the guy who inspired the new generation of Asian collectors #TTTOP #FriezeSeoul

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3 years

How #TOP inspired a new generation of #Asian art collectors - my profile of the Korean pop star is out on @artnet

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Katya Kazakina

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Sad news: Frank Stella died today. He was 87. Here are his latest monumental sculptures now on view at Deitch gallery

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Just in: Yuki Terase, head of @Sothebys contemporary art in Asia and a major force with clients like Maezawa and T.O.P., is leaving the company. Big loss.

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It took just over 8 minutes for this Monet to climb from $45 mil to $97 mil at Sotheby’s tonight - the final moments

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I gained 200 followers within hours after T.O.P. fans in #Asia discovered this tweet of mine yesterday. Imagine if they discovered the art world and collecting? It could be transformative #influence #wild @ArtBasel @friezeofficial @Sothebys @ChristiesInc

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And here's the whole thing, guys! First interview in years: How K-Pop Star Choi Seung-hyun (Better Known as #TTTOP ) Turned a Generation of #Music Fans Into #Art Aficionados

How K-Pop Star Choi Seung-hyun (Better Known as T.O.P) Turned a Generation of Music Fans Into Art...

In his first interview in years, Choi Seung-hyun offers exclusive insight into his journey to art collecting—and his big ambitions.

news.artnet.com

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"32-year-old who earns $250,000 a year, with $100,000 saved and a 20 percent savings rate, can comfortably afford a two-year trip costing $3,000 a month—assuming they keep the same salary and savings rate after the trip" @bensteverman

Why It’s Time to Quit Your Job, Travel the World

Experts say career-obsessed workers need more breaks—and financial firms are here to help.

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6 Takeaways From #TOP the K-Pop Star and Collector's First Interview in Years | Artnet News

6 Takeaways From the Artnet Intelligence Report's Profile of T.O.P, the K-Pop Star and Collector's...

From the extremely popular artist whose work he regrets buying to the childhood experiences that led him to art, T.O.P opens up.

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5 years

End of an era - @Sothebys stock stopped trading 10/3/2019

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Sad to see this Frank Stella fail to sell… estimated at $5 mil to $7 mil. Bidding stalled at $3.8 mil What gives?

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#TTTOP spoke with me about his #art obsession @artnet #artmarketintelligencereport

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Jenny Holzer @Guggenheim

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“I was the underbidder 30 years ago for this picture, and I didn’t want to miss it this time,” said Eduardo Constantini, who prevailed in a 10-minute bidding war for Leonora Carrington @Sothebys

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💥 News flash 💥 After 14+ years at Bloomberg, I am moving on!!! Here’s to freedom and new adventures. Hit me with leads, #Twitter !

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Katya Kazakina

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3 years

Caillebotte’s young man hammers at $46 million - auction record

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6 years

Jerry Saltz gives a new definition of what it means for a journalist to make a magazine cover #super @jerrysaltz #bravo #howtobeanartist

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This Banksy, Show me the Monet, goes to Asia for 6.4 million pounds in London @Sothebys #Banksy

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6 years

I was a bit #starstruck to see #JakeGyllenhaal at Christie’s tonight #Hockney ☺️

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6 years

Swizz Beatz scored an amazing panting by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye tonight at Sotheby’s for $555,000 It’s time for us to buy more of us,” he said. #blackart #power #artmarket

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This! @nytimesarts

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Just 3 years after this painting sold for what seemed like a huge amount of $1.3 million - and then self-destructed - it proved to be a brilliant investment. Sold at 16 mil pounds

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6 years

There is a $150 million Modigliani at Sotheby’s May 14 sale #artmarket @Sothebys

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7 years

Breaking news: DELTA AIR WITHDRAWS SPONSORSHIP OF NY'S PUBLIC THEATER after #JuliusCaesar production draws criticism

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$24.5 million (!!!) a massive new record vs $3 mil two years ago.

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Huge price:$24.5 hammer for Leonore Carrington woo hoo

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This stunning Helen Frankenthaler from @PSArtMuseum hammers at $3.9 mil at @Sothebys

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4 years

Breaking: Baltimore Museum of Art withdraws three works from Sotheby's

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BREAKING NEWS: Whitney Museum Sells its Iconic Breuer Building to Sotheby's for $100 million

Sotheby’s Has Inked a Deal to Buy the Whitney Museum’s Iconic Breuer Building for Approximately...

The Whitney Museum of American Art has agreed to sell its iconic Breuer Building on Madison Avenue to Sotheby’s.

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Oopsies another big lot withdrawn - Picasso low est $12 mil

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"Salvator Mundi," the $450 million Leonardo Da Vinci painting, is being kept on a #superyacht owned by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman - @artnet reports via @luxury #DaVinci @wealth #Saudi

A $450 Million Da Vinci Is Aboard MBS's Yacht, Artnet Says

A Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, whose whereabouts has been a mystery since it sold in 2017 for a record $450 million, has turned up in an unlikely place, according to Artnet.com.

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Katya Kazakina

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The Hockney goes for $24.5 mil, below low est of $25 mil - stay tuned for the Giacometti

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Phyllis Kao (VP Client Strategist, Americas) is making her debut as an auctioneer for an evening sale at Sotheby’s. Great presence + energy

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Monet’s haystack hammers at $30 mil after very slow 4-way bidding war to loud applause - there used to be a time when no one blinked at $30 mil…. I guess it’s a different time

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6 years

Record! This incredible Kerry James Marshall just hammered for record $18.5 mil at @Sothebys #ArtMarket

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2 years

Got so excited that forgot to tweet: $195 mil people (with fees and just shy of the low est $200 mil) goes to where it cam from: Larry Gagosian who sold it to Thomas Ammann in the early 1980s from hi Chelsea space on West 23rd street #warhol #marilyn @ChristiesInc

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Basquiat sold by Yusaku Maezawa hammers at $75 mil to a specialist from Taipei

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Scoop: This amazing Barkley Hendricks painting is entering the Museum of Modern Art collection, its first by the late artist. "It was just an unacceptable omission from the collection," says Ann Temkin, #MOMA chief curator of painting and sculpture

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David Hockney's 81 new #Portraits at @royalacademy , a revealing body of work #art #painting

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Looks like this Chagall is heading to Asia, hammered at $13.3 mil at @Sothebys

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4 years

Collection of #picasso biographer John Richardson is heading to @Sothebys - but I wish someone turned his loft into a small museum, keeping everything intact

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6 years

Steve Wynn had a lot riding on the three paintings consigned to Christie’s for sale this month, including his plan to start a new career as an art dealer via @luxury

Pole Through Picasso Punctures Wynn's Comeback as Art Dealer

Steve Wynn had a lot riding on the three paintings consigned to Christie’s for sale this month, including his plan to start a new career as an art dealer.

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4 years

My favorite #painter (and better half) Greg Goldberg is having a gorgeous solo show at @NatnlArtsClub Come see it, Twitter! #abstractpainting #nyc #art #artistwife

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“It was a spontaneous purchase,” said the buyer of this Van Gogh. “It was a no-brainer.” He went for “Head of a Peasant” (1885), estimated at $1.5 million to $2.5 million, and ended up getting it for half that: $787,400. @Sothebys

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This Judd stack goes for $4.9 mil, short of $5.5 mil low est (just one bidder)

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Katya Kazakina

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3 years

And btw: Welcome to my first #artdetective column for Artnet News! Thrilled to join this fab group of humans, writers, and #art connoisseurs!

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Breaking news: Steve Wynn’s $70 mil #Picasso got damaged on Friday and is withdrawn from @ChristiesInc auction this week #artmarket #wynncurse #flub

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Artnet’s Katya Kazakina Wins a National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award @LAPressClub 💪🙏

Artnet News

Find out what is driving the international art market around the clock with daily art world news, expert commentary, and event reviews.

news.artnet.com

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Ed Ruscha’s “Truth” hammers at $12.5 mil over the $10 mil high est

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5 years

First look: Dramatic installation of #Koons

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Katya Kazakina

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2 years

So excited to share with you all my #FRONTPAGE award for The Art Detective column. Thank you @NYNewswomen !!!! Happy 100th birthday 💙💙💙

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Oh boy! $24.9 mil for this record Nara painting at @Sothebys in HK

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Van Gogh hammers at $28.5 mil to the guarantor

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The same buyer gets these two: Monet and Mitchell

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7 months

Wrote something about the art market

'It's Not a Soft Landing': Contemporary Art Prices Come Crashing Down. Is This the End? | Artnet...

Current market conditions challenge the popular belief that art always goes up.

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Katya Kazakina

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4 years

Print still thrills @nytimesarts @ChristiesInc #basquait #artmarket

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6 years

A $10 Million Kerry James Marshall Painting Is Pulled From Auction After Criticism - will return to its original home at the library in Chicago #Bloomberg

Chicago Pulls $10 Million Work From Auction After Criticism

A painting by Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall won’t be auctioned off after all, a reversal of his hometown’s controversial decision to sell the work.

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Katya Kazakina

@artdetective

2 years

Wearing sage blue in honor of #Warhol ’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn that will test $200 million at auction tonight @christiesinc #artmarket #reporting

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#joanmitchell #dekooning #NewWhitney @whitneymuseum gorgeous pairing http://t.co/QnFyEi0oY0

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4 years

#Noguchi lamps have become a lifeline for a small Queens #museum bearing the artist’s name

How $500 Lamps Are Keeping a New York Museum Afloat During Covid

Demand from home-bound buyers for Akari lanterns jumped during Covid, helping the Noguchi museum keep all its staff and preserve salaries.

www.bloomberg.com

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Basquiat’s “Elmar” drew 3 bidders all Phillips staffers. Estimated at $40 mil -$60 mil - biggest of the week

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Blending in at the Frank Stella retrospective at the Whitney in 2015 ⁦ @whitneymuseum ⁩ #frankstella

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A new auction record for Rothko work on paper - $20.5 mil hammer underbid by Asia ⁦ @Sothebys ⁩

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Out with the old, in with the new: @brooklynmuseum announces big #KAWS show next year as it prepares to sell #Cranach and other Old Masters at @ChristiesInc today

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@axhxo1 @TOP_oftheTOP @ArtBasel @friezeofficial @Sothebys @ChristiesInc That's a good point! But you are still young and will get there #emergingart

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Rene Magritte painting just hammered at 51.5 million pounds at Sotheby's

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Francis Bacon’s pipe hammers for $33 mil, below $35 mil low estimate ⁦ @phillipsauction ⁩

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Calder’s Blue Moon - with a functional gong! - hammers at $12.2 mil ⁦ @Sothebys ⁩ exceeding high est of $10 mil

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Ai Weiwei designed house in upstate NY sold for $4.9 million - broker says it’s the only private residence by the artist, commissioned by investor Christopher Tsai.

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New faces of Sotheby’s in NY

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Scoop: Japanese collector Yusaku Maezawa was the seller of Alberto Giacometti’s, Femme Leoni (1947), which hammered at $19 million. He paid $25.9 for it in 2020 at Sotheby’s. Unclear why he’d take a loss…

Christie's 20th-Century Art Sale Totals $413 Million, as the Market Exhales with Relief | Artnet...

Christie's sold some $413 million worth of art at its 20th-century sale in New York. The result was a relief after a tough week.

news.artnet.com

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5 years

Pure madness as Dana Schutz sells for record $2.4 million - opening bid was $100,000 - people screaming bids in insane increment @Sothebys

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Scoop: Selling a Botticelli for a nearly $80 million profit would normally lead to $33 million capital gains tax bill. But the billionaire owner “Young Man Holding a Roundel” found a way around that. @artrecovery #artmarket

Botticelli Art Sale to Save Billionaire $33 Million in Capital Gains Taxes

The young nobleman gazing out of the canvas may have been a member of the House of Medici, whose powerful patriarch raised taxes on the wealthy of Renaissance Florence. Now the 540-year-old painting,...

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3 years

Somehow $7 million disappeared from the final Rothko price at @Sothebys Macklowe sale last night. Hammer:$77.5 million With fees: $89.3 million Final price: $82.5 million

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SOLD! First folio of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies just fetched $9.9 million, an auction record for a work of #literature . The Bard rules! @ChristiesInc

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And we are done! Record-breaking Monet and Koons works lead $2 billion NYC art auctions week … via @bbgvisualdata with @anmccartney @andretartar Surprises, records, sellthrough rates and more... #artmarket

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If you ask me, this is a pretty hideous Picasso and it hammers to a single bidder for $17 mil not reaching low est of $20 mil

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What Happens When a Collector Promises to Donate an Artwork and Then Flips It at Auction Instead? It's Worse Than You Think - good story by @the_gray_market

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6 years

The Getty allocates $5 million to launch the African American Art History Initiative, acquires the archive of 92-year-old artist Betye Saar #blackart

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Scoop: ‘It Was Her Life’: Major Miami Collection Heads to Auction, Following Founder’s Death

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4 years

Wait, what? @Sothebys to introduce a new fee called “overhead premium” - 1% of the hammer price - to offset the rising costs of doing business. Let’s see if @ChristiesInc @phillipsauction will follow #overheadpremium #artmarket #auction #OP

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Love it that Helen Frankenthaler is having a resurgence - this painting just goes for $2.5 mil @phillipsauction

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Meet the latest painting to sell for over $100 million #basquiat

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People want to know… @artnet @AndrewRusseth #artmarket

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1 year

The Spider hammers at $30 million @Sothebys

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Flop: Sotheby's-owned #Rothko which once belonged to financier David Martinez and estimated at $25 mil to $35 mil failed to draw a single bid #artmarket

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6 years

This incredible Kerry James Marshall painting is heading for #auction record at @Sothebys in May as #blackart reclaims its place in art history on museum walls and in major collections - more on my podcast with Art Tactic @ArtTactic

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A work by Jeffrey Gibson, who is a star in Venice, failed to sell (est $150k to $200k)

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News flash: Changes at Sotheby's have begun as Michael Goss left his CFO post and Jean-Luc Berrebi, former CEO of Yafit, a Geneva-based family office, became new CFO #sothebys #merger #drahi

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4 years

Kind of crazy that this 2019 painting by Amoako Boafo is changing hands for the fourth time tonight at @phillipsauction #flipping #speculators #artmarket

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Scoop: Sotheby’s Dealmaker Brooke Lampley to Depart the Auction House

Sotheby's Dealmaker Brooke Lampley to Depart for Gagosian | Artnet News

Her clients are known to include billionaires Ken Griffin and Stephen Schwarzman.

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Night club atmosphere for Warhol’s flowers - which is heating up and sells for $30.5 mil

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10 years

Exquisite Manet @ChristiesInc - just breathtaking brushwork and colors #artrocks http://t.co/o7wS3IOysb

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News flash: Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley, black artists who made official portraits of #BarackObama and #MichelleObama , set new auction records with these paintings ⁦ @phillipsauction ⁩

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!!! Some of financier Don Marron's #bluechip art did end up at #auction after all. Could the #megagalleries not sell this #BriceMarden privately? @ChristiesInc lists it at $28-$35 mil estimate for July 10 auction, not a word about the Marron #provenance