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Baltimore Museum Halts Art Sale Amid Escalating Controversy

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 28, 2020November 5, 2020

The decision comes only hours before the Sotheby’s contemporary art auction this evening in which two of the works were slated to go under the hammer.

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Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem Postpones Auction Following Backlash

by Hakim Bishara October 27, 2020November 5, 2020

The museum’s intended sale of 255 items, planned for today at Sotheby’s in London, is postponed to November.

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Banksy Painting Sells for $10M, Surpassing Its High Estimate

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 22, 2020November 5, 2020

Banksy’s “Show Me The Monet” (2005), a riff on Monet’s paintings of his Japanese bridge in Giverny, has achieved the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the street artist.

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Keith Haring’s Personal Collection Will Be Sold to Benefit New York’s LGBT Center

by Cassie Packard September 24, 2020November 5, 2020

Over 140 objects from Haring’s personal collection, including works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, will be sold by Sotheby’s to benefit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York.

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A Bill Offers California’s Indigenous Tribes Ownership of Ancestral Objects

by Cassie Packard September 4, 2020November 5, 2020

Also, a work by Paolo Uccello, sold in a Sotheby’s sale this July for $3.1 million, was revealed to be looted by Nazis.

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A Look at a Formerly Lost, Glimmering Manuscript by Persian Poet Hafez

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

The Divan’s whereabouts remained a mystery until last year, when Dutch art crime investigator Arthur Brand — sometimes referred to as “the Indiana Jones of the art world” — tracked it down.

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A Sotheby’s Partnership Brings Together Old Master Paintings and Streetwear

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

The limited-edition collaboration between the auction house and streetwear site Highsnobiety brands t-shirts and hoodies with Old Master paintings from Sotheby’s upcoming Masters Week 2020.

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Brooklyn Museum Is Trying to Sell a Francis Bacon Painting the Artist Wanted Destroyed

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 17, 2019October 17, 2019

During his lifetime, Bacon wrote the museum that “It was a throw-out and it depresses me […] that it has years later found its way onto the art market and I would prefer if it were not exhibited.”

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KAWS Artwork of Chairman Mao Triggers Massive Outcry in China

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 4, 2019October 3, 2019

After former KAWS fans burned their merch, the artwork, which was slated to go to auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on October 7, was taken down from the auction house’s website.

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The Museum Wall That Broke the Art Handler’s Back

Avatar photo by Zachary Small September 2, 2019September 2, 2019

Over the summer, Hyperallergic interviewed dozens of art handlers about the variable conditions of their workplaces. This week, we are bringing their stories of accident and injury into the light.

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Family Realizes Portrait of Their Mother Is by Influential Nigerian Modernist

by Hakim Bishara July 31, 2019August 30, 2019

“Christine,” a portrait of an American hairstylist named Christine Elizabeth Davis, was painted in 1971 by Ben Enwonwu, one of Africa’s most influential 20th-century artists.

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Sotheby’s Auction House Goes Private After $3.7 Billion Sale

Avatar photo by Zachary Small June 17, 2019

French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi will soon own one of the world’s largest auction houses after it spent 31 years on the stock exchange.

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