Christie’s mid-season Post-War to Present auction in New York brought in $21.3 million, led by strong results for Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Ruscha, Richard Estes, and Diane Arbus. The large live sale in New York on February 27 had 224 lots with 67 unsold and 12 withdrawals for a sell-through rate of 64.7 percent. The top lot was Frankenthaler’s Concerto (1982), which sold for $2.1 million with fees, blasting past its estimate of $500,000 to $700,000; followed by Ed Ruscha’s Pressures (1967), which sold for just under $2 million with fees on an estimate of $1 million to $1.5 million. Related…
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The creativity of Olivia, designer behind the brand Olivve, is one that I believe has re-energized the space of fine jewelry in the past couple of years. Honestly, in the late 2010s, I felt like the fine jewelry scene was becoming boring – I yearned for new creatives, new talent and someone who could make fine jewelry playful. I’m so glad Olivia decided to take some wax carving classes 6 years ago! Her most utilized motif is the sequin – giving it many iterations and even different sizes. If you follow my key project, you may recall that we teamed…
New York-based art research firm LMI International has come out fighting following the backlash it faced last month, when it claimed a painting titled Elimar bought at a Minnesota garage sale for $50 was a long-lost van Gogh. After spending $30,000 on high-tech analysis, the company dated it to 1889 and said it’s worth $15 million.However, several van Gogh specialists argued that the work was painted by a little-known 20th-century Danish artist called Henning Elimar, who died in 1989. They include Wouter van der Veen, a scholar specializing in the Dutch Post-Impressionist who previously worked for Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum.…
Another round of layoffs has hit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as the institution struggles to balance its books in an era of dwindling tourism and rising costs, the New York Times reported Friday. The museum said it was cutting 20 jobs—7 percent of its staff—across multiple departments. Senior leadership, however, will remain untouched, and curators have been spared from the cuts. The move comes despite efforts to steady the ship under Mariët Westermann, who took over as director and chief executive in 2024. Ticket prices have gone up, exhibition schedules have been trimmed down, and the museum’s…
Will Seippel, CEO of WorthPoint, enjoys watching the items sold at auctions held by our WorthPoint Industry Partners. We thought it would be a great idea for him to select some of his favorite sold items and explain why those sales stood out to him. Gaining insights from Will is an excellent way to learn about buying and selling trends in our industry. We want to empower you to buy and sell with confidence. Take a look at his thoughts on a few of our partners’ recent sales. A Stunning Baleen Basket This Inupiat Native basket featuring a walrus ivory…
Here you’ll find the Final Jeopardy clue for Friday, February 28, 2025. Today marks the first semifinals game in the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament with yesterday’s match going to contestant Juveria Zaheer. Tonight’s match will much more heated, featuring applied scientist Roger Craig from Virginia, consultant Jaskaran Singh from Texas, and radiologist Shane Whitlock from Arkansas. Here is the question and answer for Final Jeopardy for 2/28/2025, along with the wages and winner for the game. Final Jeopardy Question for February 28 The Final Jeopardy question for February 28, 2025 is in the category of “Famous Names” and has the following…
The Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in South Florida claims that that state and federal anti-LGBTQ policies have siphoned off the institution’s operating budget and scared off corporate investors, leaving the museum in financial peril. “This is stretching into places that we really have not seen before. Our future is threatened now,” Robert Kesten, the museum’s CEO, told Axios. The museum calculated that more than half of its $1 million operating budget could disappear. The museum’s troubles began last year when Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis cut over $32 million in arts and culture grants from the 2025 budget. That financial hit was exacerbated by…
A major collection of Old Master paintings, built up over decades by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, is poised to shatter auction records this May at Sotheby’s New York. Estimated to be worth $80 million–$120 million, the collection features works by artists such as Jan Davidsz. de Heem and Luis Meléndez and is being billed as the most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction.A total of 56 paintings will be sold, the majority in a dedicated sale on May 21st—Elegance & Wonder: Masterpieces from the Collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III—while…
Madame Web is the worst film of the year.At least that was the pick for that dubious honor by the Razzie Awards, the longest-running bad-movie alternative to the Oscars. Every year the members of the Razzies (which is literally anyone who wants to pay to be a member) votes on their picks for the worst films of the year. And this year the consensus choice for the dregs of cinema was the disastrous Spider-Man spinoff starring Dakoja Johnson as a clairvoyant EMT worker.Johnson herself won the Razzies’ Worst Actress prize, and the film also won the Worst Screenplay award.The other…
Daredevil: Born Again kicks off a new era for the Man Without Fear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the series is something of a sequel, picking up after the events of the Daredevil series that streamed on Netflix from 2015 to 2018, and stars both of its main characters: Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk.If you missed the original Daredevil TV show, or you watched it and can’t remember it because there are dozens of these movies and shows to keep in your brain at this point, our latest Marvel video is here to help. It was get you up…
