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The Headlines
A HUGE NIGHT IN MANHATTAN. Yesterday night, at Sotheby’s headquarters on York Avenue, 35 works from the prized assortment of Harry and Linda Macklowe went beneath the hammer over the course of 90 minutes—and each one in all them offered, for a complete haul of $676.1 million with charges. Angelica Villa has a report for ARTnews . It was a powerful consequence for the home, which had pegged the sale with a $618.9 million excessive estimate and backed it with a assure. Twenty-one heaps had irrevocable bids. A 1951 Mark Rothko introduced $82 million, the second-highest quantity ever paid at public sale for a Rothko. A 1974 Agnes Martin demolished her earlier prime mark, going for $17.7 million. The court docket dealing with the Macklowes’ tumultuous divorce ordered the sale due to an deadlock over the division of their artwork. Extra of their holdings shall be on provide at Sotheby’s in Might. The large November gross sales proceed all through the week. ARTnews shall be there.
HERE COMES THE SUN. Archaeologists in Egypt have come throughout what they imagine is a “solar temple” that dates again some 4,500 years, CNN studies. Historic data counsel that six of the temples, devoted to the solar god Ra , as soon as existed. The brand new discover, in Abu Ghurab, simply south of Cairo, is the third one to be uncovered. The researchers imagine it dates to the mid-Twenty fifth century BCE, and are aiming to determine the king who was chargeable for its development. On a really tangentially associated word, if you’re within the temper for extra Egyptian treasure speak, the brand new Netflix heist movie Crimson Discover, could also be of curiosity. It options Dwayne Johnson as an FBI agent looking for three bejeweled eggs that when belonged to Cleopatra. Alas, as Newsweek factors out, they’re fully fictional.
The Digest
Excellent news for KAWS followers in Singapore: a court docket lifted an earlier order that barred the exhibition of a large balloon by the artist due to a declare over mental property rights. [The Straits Times]
U.S. President Joe Biden is inserting a 20-year ban on oil and fuel drilling in Chaco Canyon, a UNESCO World Heritage web site in New Mexico that was as soon as a nexus of Pueblo tradition. Some Indigenous and environmental teams have known as for everlasting protections for the world. [The Associated Press]
A statue of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson that the New York Metropolis Council voted to take away from its chamber final month due to his standing as an enslaver, shall be despatched to the New-York Historic Society, on Manhattan’s Higher West Facet, as a 10-year mortgage. [The New York Times]
Efforts are underway to protect a hidden underground cave that when related the London residence of poet and satirist Alexander Pope to his gardens. (That villa and people wonderful grounds are, alas, no extra.) The mission is budgeted at £400,000 (about $539,000) and shall be partly paid by the Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund. [The Art Newspaper]
Mariam Zulfiqar has been tapped to be the following director of Artangel, which commissions public artworks in the UK. Zulfiqar comes from Forestry England, whose Nationwide Arts Programme she led. After three many years as co-directors of Artangel, James Lingwood and Michael Morris stepped down this yr. [ArtReview]
Artwork vendor Inigo Philbrick, who has been accused of perpetrating frauds totaling greater than $20 million, will reportedly plead responsible to federal expenses this week. [The Daily Beast]
The Kicker
LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE. Artist and iPad draughtsman David Hockney apparently had an assistant snap up some beer mats by an artist named Mr. Bingo that bear a gloriously Hockney-like sentiment: “Bored of wellness.” The Guardian studies that Mr. Bingo was enthusiastic about this, and requested Hockney to share his ideas on the matter. Unsurprisingly, the 84-year-old painter didn’t maintain again. “I too am uninterested in wellness, the idea appears ridiculous and too bossy for me,” he wrote. “I’m nonetheless smoking and having fun with it enormously. I’ve by no means been to a fitness center in my life.” It goes on from there. Hockney at the moment has a present up on the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. [The Guardian]