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From Basquiat to Damien Hirst: The Best and the Worst of the Art World
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Caroline Goldstein
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BEST
Positively dotty! How Kusama helped the Hirshhorn to infinity and beyond.
Christie’s started off gigaweek strong with a $57 million-dollar bronze head, and kept up the momentum at the Postwar/Contemporary evening sale, although fireworks were lacking.
Basquiat is our $100 million-dollar-man, after a record-breaking night at Sotheby’s Evening Sale; also, despite the withdrawal of Egon Schiele’s cover lot, the auction house still netted a solid Imp/Mod evening sale, and a tepid Modern Contemporary African Art sale in London.
Cheyenne Westphal spoke to artnet News earlier this week with optimism, and it paid off after Phillips delivered a “white-glove” auction. The two power-houses better watch out.
Combining G.O.A.T.s, money, and rum, we’ve got nary a bad thing to say about Nari Ward.
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French Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen. Photo: Wikimedia Communs.
CH-CH-CH-CHANGES
France has a new cultural minister, appointed by newly elected Macron.
Advertising his new gallery in East Hampton, Joel Mesler is endearing in his new promo video.
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Jason deCaires Taylor with Damien Hirst’s The Collector, a self-portrait of Hirst. Image courtesy Jason deCaires Taylor.
WORST
Seeing double in Venice? The similarity between Grenada’s Jason deCaires Taylor’s nautical work and Damien Hirst’s shipwreck of a show is frankly unbelievable.
Trump-ed up accusations by Time magazine: Don’t blame contemporary art for the follies of voters.
Its expensive to be creative. A survey from NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs gives some troubling insight.
So apparently love isn’t blind—artnet News delves into the murky waters of nepotism in the art world.
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