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Also, a Dora Maar portrait by Picasso sold for $6.8 million, and Christie’s will sell the first “Mixed Reality performance artwork,” by none other than Marina Abramović.
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Also, the New York Public Library purchased 153 Virginia Woolf-related items, an 18th-century Senegalese saber has been returned by France, and more.
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Also, Umberto Boccioni’s "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (1913/1972) fetched $16.2M, and Ed Ruscha's "Hurting the Word Radio #2" (1964) sold for an unbelievable $52.5M.
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Plus, the iconic black outfit worn by Olivia Newton-John in the film Grease has sold, along with a $4 million painting by Édouard Manet.
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Plus, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security returned a marble head of the god Pan to Italy, and the most expensive Pokemon card of all time has sold.
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Plus, London's Design Museum got a £3 million reprieve, and architect Junya Ishigami wins one of the world's richest architecture awards.
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Plus, one of the largest private collections of African quilts finds a home, and the Louvre has secured its loan for Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man."
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Plus, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announces new acquisitions in the lead-up to its 150th anniversary and more of the week's transactions.
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Plus, a Banksy painting has set another auction record for the artist, and a trove of archives from the Underground Railroad shine a light on a dark history.
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Plus, a previously lost masterwork by Eugène Delacroix is heading to Houston, and a Banksy auction subtitled "I can't believe you morons actually buy this sh*t" sold $1.3 million worth of the artist's work.
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Plus, a 3D photograph of Banksy sells for just under $45,000, and a Berlin museum loans the Namibian government 23 objects in a partnership to assess their provenance.
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Plus, the FBI's art crimes team returned Nazi-looted painting to the Ukraine, and the British Museum offloads Assyrian reliefs it had no space for to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.