Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
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Watches & Wristwatches | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Watches & Wristwatches Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Old Masters | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Old Masters Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Wine & Spirits | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Wine & Spirits Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Impressionist & Modern Art | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Books & Manuscripts | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Books & Manuscripts Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Prints & Multiples | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Prints & Multiples Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Post-War & Contemporary Art | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
European Furniture & Works of Art | Christie's
<div><div>Christie’s European Furniture & Works of Art Department presents its upcoming auctions and auction results, online catalogues, and specialist insights.</div></div>
Maurizio Cattelan’s Duct-Taped Banana Sells for $6.24 M. at Sotheby’s
“The world’s most expensive banana” sold Wednesday night at Sotheby’s New York. That’s how auctioneer Oliver Barker put as he was trying to eke out the last of the bids for Maurizio Cattelan’s viral artwork, Comedian (2019). The famed artwork, of a banana duct-taped to a wall, hammered at $5.2 million, with the final price (including buyer’s premium) being $6.24 million. It went to a client of Jen Hua, Christie’s senior vice president, deputy chairman of Asia, chairman of China. Shortly
'The world's most expensive banana': Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian fetches $6.2m at Sotheby’s New York
<div>The buyer, the collector and crypto investor Justin Sun, immediately vowed to eat the banana</div>
Maurizio Cattelan’s Viral Banana Sells for $6.24 Million at Sotheby’s
<div><p>The artist's controversial creation has been called "the most talked-about artwork of the century.”</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://news.artnet.com/market/maurizio-cattelans-viral-banana-sells-for-6-24-million-at-sothebys-2571327">Maurizio Cattelan’s Viral Banana Sells for $6.24 Million at Sotheby’s</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://news.artnet.com/">Artnet News</a>.</p></div>
Hong Kong Artist Receives Prison Sentence for Political ‘Subversion’
45 well-known pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong were sentenced in a mass trial on Tuesday under the national security law implemented in 2020, the Hong Kong Free Press reported. It is the largest case of its kind invoked under the national security law. Among those who were sentenced was former law professor Benny Tai, prominent activist Joshua Wong, and artist and elected official Clarisse Yeung. They are among 47 pro-democracy activists who were arrested and charged in 2021 with conspi
Italian Authorities Bust Illegal Excavation of Etruscan Burial Site
The illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, in central Italy, has been seized by Italian authorities, Italy’s Minister of Culture announced on Tuesday. Police now seek two people suspected of stealing an urn and sarcophagi, among other artifacts, worth a total 8 million euros ($8.5 million) with the intent to sell sell them on the black market. As first reported in English by the Associated Press, the illegal operation neighbored another Etruscan burial site unearthed by
After an embattled edition, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale announces next show
<div>Nikhil Chopra and the collective HH Art Spaces will curate the next instalment of the prestigious Indian exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2025</div>
Vancouver Art Gallery expands Asian art programme with $1.1m gift
<div>The museum’s renamed Centre for Global Asias seeks to “recognise the many Asias that exist, within the geography of Asia itself and in the global diaspora”</div>
Steve Locke Talks About His Painterly and Polemical Provocations
Steve Locke’s best-known works are paintings of faces with their tongues sticking out. This fatuous facial gesture is immediately relatable but also, as Locke discusses below, one that can be read in a number of different ways. Such multifaceted readings are typical for Locke, who trained as a painter and considers his subjects carefully and from many different vantages. Often, in work that can be moving or maddening, inspiring or impish, and sometimes more than a little funny, he captures sta
Work by Hamed Nada Triumphs At Bonhams Modern And Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Sale
Hamed Nada (Egypt, 1924-1990) Battle ... London – One of the most significant works to come to market by the Egyptian artist, Hamed Nada (1924-1
Third Just Stop Oil Activist Charged After Orange Paint Protest at Stonehenge Monument
A third Just Stop Oil activist was recently charged in connection with a protest at the Stonehenge monument in June, after orange powder paint was sprayed on the ancient stones. Luke Watson, a 35-year-old resident of Manuden, Bishop’s Stortford, was charged with “one count of aiding, abetting, counselling and/or procuring destroying or damaging an ancient protected monument, and one count of aiding, abetting, counselling and/or procuring causing a public nuisance,” according to a statemen
ICA Boston Picks MCA Denver’s Nora Burnett Abrams as Next Director
After a year-long search, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has selected Nora Burnett Abrams as its next director. She will begin in the post on May 1, succeeding Jill Medvedow, who has directed the ICA for 26 years. Abrams comes to the ICA after a 15-year tenure at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, where she successfully rose through the curatorial ranks, starting as an adjunct curator in 2009 and rising to the museum’s directorship in 2019. During her tenure there, she inc