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At its first sale Singapore in 15 years, Sotheby’s raked in SG$24 million ($17.5 million) on Sunday, exceeding the auction’s pre-sale estimate of SG$18 million ($10 million). The highly anticipated auction featured modern and contemporary artworks, with a heavy focus on modern art by artists from Southeast Asian countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Dealers and collectors from across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, ...

AN ART exhibition welcomed more than 700 visitors to see its 120 works of art when it returned to Alresford. Alresford Art Society organisers were delighted with their 2022 exhibition, which showcased exhibits in watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel and mixed media, as well as sculpture, wire and mosaic from July 1 until 3, Its People’s Choice competition saw 543 visitors vote for their favourite ...

Some 20 years ago, Albert-László Barabási, alongside Réka Albert, coined the term “scale-free network,” showing how despite the belief that the internet put everyone on the same level, new forms of hierarchy were emerging within it. More recently, the Romania-born scientist has turned his eye to the art world, making waves in 2018 as one of the authors of a study titled “Quantifying Reputation and ...

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An "extremely talented" P4 pupil at Lisbellaw Primary School was placed third in the Key Stage 1 category of the Department of Education's NI100 Art Competition. Jessie McCrea (8) from Lisbellaw, along with her mum and granny, was invited to Stormont where she was presented with a framed picture of her artwork by Michelle McIlveen, Education Minister. Commenting on Jessie's success, Jason Kilfedder, Principal ...

Artist Christine Whitacre shows a copy of the just-released “Color My World. A Gnome Adventure.” She wrote and illustrated the children's book which is available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Christine Whitacre grew up as a middle child in a clan of 16 kids.“It was kind of like being in limbo back then,” the artist-author chuckled about her really big family days in ...

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, December 14. NEED-TO-READ Cleaners Protest at the Guggenheim Bilbao – Custodial staff at the Guggenheim Bilbao protested their €5 ($5.65)-per-hour salaries in a poignant performance organized with artist Lorenzo Bussi, who works under the name ...

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, September 28. NEED-TO-READ Family Battle Over Looted Art Makes Trouble for Auction House – The heirs to a Lovis Corinth painting that was looted from their grandparents by the Nazis are battling Austrian auction ...

A new show examining how some of the Nazis’ favourite visual artists were able to successfully continue their work in postwar Germany is set to open in Berlin this week. “Divinely Gifted. National Socialism’s favoured artists in the Federal Republic” opened Friday at the German Historical Museum. It traces the careers and works of many who figured on a list of “Divinely Gifted” artists, ...

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 Friday, May 14. NEED-TO-READ George Michael’s Art-Dealer Ex Secures Settlement – Former art dealer Kenny Goss reached a settlement with the family of musician George Michael. The two had a relationship decades ago, and, when ...