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...Leading the pack of all contemporary artists by value last year was Yayoi Kusama who, with $80.9mn of sales, took the top spot from David Hockney, ranked second at $50.3mn....
...Edgar Allan Poe would have struggled today to recognise the rural calm he sought when renting a modest home outside New York in 1846 for the last four years of his brief, turbulent but productive life....
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...Art, and her sister, Tamar Margalit, curator of the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv....
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...Other institutional buyers include New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (six works on paper) and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie, while Eduardo Costantini, founder chair of the Museum...
...She channelled that feast of impressions into art that resonated with nature....
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...In 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there were several impromptu concerts in New York City of music by Ukraine’s leading contemporary composer Valentin Silvestrov, then exiled to...
...The Museum of London closed in 2022 after 46 years in the London Wall location. It plans to reopen as the London Museum in 2026 in new premises in Smithfield Market....
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