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Phillips Collection Acquires Nabi Paintings and Portfolios, and Tintin Cover Sold for Over $1M

Plus, Aretha Franklin portraits find a new home, and the sales of Leonard Cohen's letters to Marianne, famous works by Dorothea Lange and other photographers, and an Andy Warhol riff on Botticelli's "Birth of Venus."

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This Gentileschi Painting Spent Some Time in a Prison, and a Nicolas de Staël Painting Sold for $3.3M

Plus, classic cartoons from The Peanuts change hands, and the mysterious case of an $88.8 million Rauschenberg may be solved.

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5,000 Drawings by Architect Michael Graves Go to Princeton Museum, Virus-Ridden Laptop Sells for $1.3M

Plus, Scotland's Aberdeen Art Gallery takes £1 million from Big Oil, Hungary's Museum of Fine Arts has a new Renoir and a new Van Dyck, and pieces by Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, and more go for millions in Hong Kong auctions.

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Spongebob Painting Goes for $6M, Annie Leibovitz Portrait of Queen Still Up for Grabs

Plus, two Dutch Golden Age paintings will be returned to the family of art collector Jacob Lierens, and works by Basquiat, Rockwell, Warhol, and others are in the news.

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Claude Monet Sells for $110M at Sotheby's, van Gogh Museum Acquires Three Works

Plus, Jeff Koons has regained his title as the world's most expensive living artist, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami has added work by 11 artists including Barthélémy Toguo and Cecilia Vicuña to its collection.

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Nelson Mandela Sketch Sells at Auction, and Frieze Brings Major Sales

Plus, the Getty acquires ancient engraved gems, and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquires a rare map.

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British Museum Receives Damien Hirst's Frank Dunphy Portraits, and Brooklyn Museum Announces Major Acquisitions

Plus, the Brooklyn Museum purchases work by Diedrick Brackens and Gala Porras-Kim at Frieze New York, and the Delaware Art Museum purchases work by Hank Willis Thomas.

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Tate Acquires Yinka Shonibare's "The British Library," and Edvard Munch Sells at Auction

Plus, the Cleveland Museum of art acquires drawings, photographs, and more, and the National Galleries of Scotland and the V&A purchase a portrait by Antonio Zucchi.

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LACMA Acquires Eight New Works, and Harvard Museums Receive 70 Otto Piene Sketchbooks

Plus, George Condo and Giorgio de Chirico sell at auction.

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Getty Acquires Oldenburg and van Bruggen Archive, and Ancient Figurines Returned to Mexico

Plus, Giorgio Morandi and Pablo Picasso sell at auction.

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A 1958 Green Book Sets Auction Record, and Cincinnati Art Museum Acquires Nancy Rexroth Collection

Plus, Banksy and Kusama sell at auction, and the V&A acquires Grayson Perry’s Matching Pair vases.

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Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Latin American Works, and Library of Congress Acquires Georgia O'Keeffe's Letters

Plus, Andy Warhol's work sells at auction, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden acquires 30 new works.