The top lot in Bonhams’ Fine Books & Manuscripts sale was an artist’s cat book by Warhol, which sold for $106,562.
Cassie Packard
Cassie Packard is a Brooklyn-based art writer. (cassiepackard.com)
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Works by Yayoi Kusama, Gifted to Her Doctor in the 1960s, Expected to Fetch Up to $14M
Dr. Teruo Hirose had a reputation for providing treatment to Japanese immigrants for reduced prices or even pro bono.
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Artwork Gifted by Banksy to British Hospital Estimated to Garner Millions at Auction for the NHS
In May 2020, Banksy gifted an artwork made in tribute to healthcare workers to a South East England hospital.
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Over 200 Courtroom Sketches of Rodney King Trials Acquired by Library of Congress
Prominent courtroom artist Mary Chaney drew the 269 illustrations during three trials between 1992 and 1994.
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for March 2021
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month.
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Nazi-looted Watercolor by Egon Schiele, Belonging to Artist’s Dentist, Will Be Returned to Heirs
Germany’s advisory commission on Nazi-looted art also recommended the return of a painting by Erich Heckel to the heirs of Jewish journalist Max Fischer.
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Photos by Jewish Artist Who Documented Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland Gifted to MFA Boston
Ross was forcibly confined to the Lodz Ghetto and tasked to take propaganda photographs, but secretly documented the brutal living conditions to leave a historical record of atrocities committed by the Nazis.
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A Revelatory Tarot Deck by Leonora Carrington
Resurfacing a little known part of the artist’s oeuvre, a new text from Fulgur Press demonstrates that occultism was thoroughly knit into the fabric of Carrington’s life.
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MoMA Receives Donation of 100 Photos by Women Artists Spanning a Century
The collection includes early modernists like Claude Cahun and Gertrud Arndt, as well as contemporary artists such as Catherine Opie and Carrie Mae Weems.
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Patrick Angus’s Honest Images of Gay Life
With their Fauvist hues and Pop-inflected renderings, Angus’s drawings and paintings, made amid the AIDS crisis, intrinsically queer the Western canon.
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Hundreds of Presidential Memorabilia, From Locks of Hair to Vintage Photos, Go on Auction
The sale at Boston’s RR Auction includes ephemera of all sorts linked to presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden.
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Pérez Art Museum Announces Acquisitions by Newly Renamed Fund for Black Art
Iconic images by Gordon Parks and Kwame Brathwaite, and a vibrant painting by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, have entered the PAMM collection.
