Since 2016, billionaire real estate tycoon Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife Linda Burg have feuded in court over assets during their contentious divorce proceedings. Disagreeing on the value of their impressive art collection, the couple were ordered to sell off the coveted trove. Sotheby’s have now auctioned all 65 artworks for a staggering $922.2 million (£741.9 million) in total, making it the most valuable private collection ever sold at auction.
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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has sparked a wave of criticism after wearing an iconic Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) dress to this year’s Met Gala. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the gala celebrated the current exhibition “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” with the dress code ‘Gilded Glamour’.
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An amateur Swiss metal detectorist has recently uncovered a remarkable find in a forest near Wildenstein Castle in Bubendorf, Switzerland. Daniel Lüdin identified a clay pot containing nearly 1,300 Roman coins which, following expert analysis, can be dated to the reign of Constantine the Great, who ruled from 306-337 C.E.
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The US organisation Save Venice has launched the project ‘Women Artists of Venice’, which aims to spotlight the under researched women artists of Venice. Relatively little is known about their lives in comparison to Venetian male painters, like Titian (1488/90-1576), Tintoretto (1518-1594) and Canaletto (1697-1768), who have traditionally dominated art historical scholarship.
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The High Court ruled last week that NFTs are now to be considered legal property, marking a significant step forward for victims of NFT theft, who will now be more confidently able to apply for an injunction when finding that their NFTs have been misappropriated.
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On Monday morning, the official Instagram account of a non-fungible token (NFT) collection suffered a major hack. It is estimated that a whopping $3 million (£2.4 million) worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs were taken during the mass theft.
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The 59th Venice Biennale, which had been scheduled for 2021 but delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, had its pre-opening from 20-22 April and presented its highest prize, the Golden Lion, to British artist Sonia Boyce.
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A thirteen-year-old has made nearly $7 million by selling NFTs of her illustrations of women which are designed to incorporate the designer’s trademark long necks. Hayes’ drawings include a number of famous women, both historical and living, such as Michelle Obama, Virginia Woolf, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Greta Thunberg and Frida Kahlo. Hayes has said that the trademark long neck was inspired by her love as a child of brontosaurus dinosaurs.
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Over the course of a mere 24 hours, NFT (non-fungible token) artist FEWOCiOUS has sold a staggering $19 million (£14.5 million) of his digital artwork. The limited public sale is the third-highest grossing in the history of the NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway.
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Two leather-bound notebooks written by the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) have mysteriously reappeared at the University of Cambridge, twenty-two years after they went missing. The notebooks are now worth many millions of pounds.
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