Christie’s staged two back-to-back sales of modern and contemporary art on Tuesday afternoon in London and Paris, bringing in a combined total of $250 million with fees. The 106 lots offered spanned works from young newcomers like Anna Weyant and pieces by long-gone art historical figures like Claude Monet. Some 97 works sold, with one piece by Cy Twombly withdrawn in advance. Twenty-eight lots ...
Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, the scammer who was convicted in 2019 for swindling New York socialites and defrauding banks, has entered the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Sorokin announced Thursday that she is launching her own collection of NFTs that come with additional perks, including direct access to the fraudster.“I see this first drop as an opportunity to directly connect with ...
Anna Weyant’s Josephine, which sold more than $500,000 at a Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction Sotheby’s Painter Anna Weyant’s story sounds like a modern-day art fairytale, and in the pens of some journalists, it reads like one. Just five years after she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, her paintings are already selling for more than $1 million at auction—sometimes at several times the ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, June 22. NEED-TO-READ Nobel Medal Sells for $103.5 Million – Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov’s 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal fetched an impressive $103.5 million at Heritage auction house after an extended bidding war on ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, June 21. NEED TO READ Ben Davis on the Art World’s Future – In his new book, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy, Artnet News’s national art critic Ben Davis imagines ...
Earlier this year, Netflix debuted Inventing Anna, a miniseries that offered a fictionalized account of Anna Delvey’s attempts to scam the rich and famous, some of whom were in the art world. Now, there is “Reinventing Anna,” a series of NFTs minted by none other than Delvey herself, who is currently behind bars. The NFTs are images of prints that Delvey, an artist in ...
Artist and writer Julia Morrison told the New York Post that she put down $8,000 to help stage the Free Anna group show this past March and still hasn’t been paid back, according to a report published Monday. Earlier this year, Morrison teamed up with Alfredo Martinez to put together the “Free Anna” group show. Morrison and Martinez both got a 25% cut of ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Tuesday, May 31. NEED TO READ Art Historian Samella Lewis Dies at 98 – The influential artist, curator, and historian, whose books include Black Artists on Art (1969) and Art: African American (1978), shaped American art ...
Anna Delvey, the notorious scammer who traversed the upper echelons of the art world prior to being caught and arrested for grand larceny, finally opened her own art show on Thursday. Titled “Allegedly,” the event took place at Bar Chrystie in the Public Hotel. Before it even opened, it was covered extensively by the press, garnering headlines in the New York Post, the Daily ...
Following her fairly popular—and totally surprising—"Free Anna" art show on the Lower East Side back in March, Anna Delvey is launching yet-another art exhibit later this week. Titled "Allegedly," the one-night-only event is happening at the Public Hotel this Thursday night. Whereas "Free Anna" featured works created by Delvey but redrawn by artist (and former con) Alfredo Martinez, "Allegedly" will be a collection of 20 ...
