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Christie’s to Sell $50 M. Collection of AES Founder Roger Sant – ARTnews.com

Christie’s will auction $50 million art from the collection of Virginia-based electrical power mogul Roger Sant, including works by Paul Gauguin and Joan Mitchell. Together with his wife Vicki, who died in 2018, the AES corporation founder accumulated a collection centered around Post-Impressionists like Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, and Nabis artists like Maurice Denis. The Sants, who gifted an acquisition fund for 19th-century ...

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The Founder of the World’s First Decentralized Art Fund, and Other News – SURFACE

DESIGN DISPATCH Our daily look at the world through the lens of design. BY THE EDITORS August 26, 2022 Salon founder Jordan Huelskamp. Photography by Jordan Tiberio … The Design Dispatch offers expertly written and essential news from the design world crafted by our dedicated team. Think of it as your cheat sheet for the day in design delivered to your inbox before you’ve ...

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MacGregor Harp, 247365 Founder, Dies at 41 – ARTnews.com

MacGregor Harp, an artist who founded a New York gallery that attracted a number of young up-and-comers before they achieved fame, has died at 41. He had been battling pancreatic cancer. With Jesse Greenberg, Harp ran 247365, a gallery that opened in 2012 in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood before relocating in 2015 to Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Its cutting-edge offerings had been closely watched ...

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Manifesta Founder Proposes 2028 Ukrainian Edition—and More Art News – ARTnews.com

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE WAR IN UKRAINE. The founder of Manifesta, Europe’s roving art biennial, Hedwig Fijen, has proposed holding its 2028 edition in Ukraine, with the aim of helping to “rebuild and re-strengthen the cultural ecosystem and infrastructure” in the country, Artnet News reports. (Its current iteration just opened in Prishtina, Kosovo.) Meanwhile, an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot of Volodymyr and ...

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‘Idols Are Dead’: TRON Founder Justin Sun on the Opportunities That Crypto Art Presents for His Rising Generation

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron blockchain, is inarguably one of the most fascinating people in the NFT space right now. A self-made billionaire, the 31-year-old founder has collected more than $100 million worth of NFTs and traditional art—by artists from Picasso to Giacometti—this year alone, generating new headlines almost every month. While Sun was already a household name in crypto circles beforehand, ...

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Netscape Founder Surrenders Art Identified as Looted—and More Art News – ARTnews.com

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEADING HOME. James H. Clark, the entrepreneur behind the Netscape internet browser, has voluntarily relinquished 35 Cambodian and Southeast Asian antiquities after being shown evidence by U.S. authorities that they were looted, the New York Times reports. Clark spent some $35 million on the material, which he acquired from dealer Douglas A. J. Latchford , who was ...

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