PAYING UP
The $250 million estate sale of Anne Bass goes on the auction block Thursday at Christie’s. It’s not the only uber-monied art collection going up for sale.
Alexandra Peers has written extensively on the art world, principally for The Wall Street Journal, but also New York magazine, CNN.com, and Vanity Fair.
LEGENDARY
Poetry, love letters, and personal memorabilia owned by Shakur is valued at over $350,000. The Sotheby’s auction seeks to document “the art and influence of hip hop culture.”
‘FREE ANNA DELVEY!’
“I’m making work right now for my solo show,” Anna Sorokin told The Daily Beast from custody, as she called in to an art event held in her name on New York City’s Lower East Side.
FREE TO DRAW
A new art show purports to be not just in support of Anna Sorokin, but also feature work of hers created in jail. Does she hope becoming an artist could save her from deportation?
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
At Art Basel Miami Beach, the Black-Friday-meets-spring-break of the art industry, COVID initially chilled the mood—but not sales, and certainly not the event’s sybaritic pursuits.
PARTY ON
The mega-rich, who come to Miami to collect art and party at Art Basel, are very much in attendance at this year’s fair—even if the Omicron variant has made people feel cautious.
Starring Role
As Art Basel Miami Beach kicks off, Abramovic talks about her friendship with Lady Gaga, ignoring the critics, and how her early art teachers thought she should be committed.
Investment
Edvard Munch’s famous ‘The Scream’ fetched $119 million at Sotheby’s in New York, the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. But did a rich Chinese collector buy it? A dot-com mogul? A hedge-fund tycoon? Nobody’s saying. Plus, Blake Gopnik on the artistic merit.
The star-studded auction of the Merce Cunningham-John Cage collection reveals a little-known chapter in art history—the pair’s relationship with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
The Dutch master’s most famous painting is on display in the U.S. for the first time since World War II. Alexandra Peers on the portrait’s erotic secrets. VIEW OUR GALLERY.