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Insights on Auction Sales: Van Cleef & Arpel Jewels, Karl Springer Tables

WorthPoint

Not to be outdone, Rago’s delivered its own showstopper with a standout modern art auction that totaled $1,054,730 across 143 lots. This is the power of “The Auction House to the Stars”—where memories of a beloved icon become priceless to the generation they helped shape.

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in July

WorthPoint

In the late 20th century, collector interest in the valentines led to contemporary artists like Moran embracing the art form. Born to former slaves, Edmondson was the first African American artist to have a solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. WorthPoint—Discover.

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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

The Art Newspaper

Nittve, unusually for an art fund, comes from a museum background—he is best known as the founding director of London’s Tate Modern, but has also led the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and M+ in Hong Kong.

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

Invaluable

Featuring a compilation of images Winkelmann created from 2007 onwards, the work drew attention across the art world as heralding the arrival of NFT artwork among the major blue chip collecting categories. Soon, though, the NFT art market crashed. So, for 2025, tap into this tactile trend.

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As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging

The Art Newspaper

Its institutional infrastructure has been hollowed out, and the older generation cleaves to power, not just at the art academies but in commercial galleries and the influential Artists’ Union, which determines shows at the Gulbenkian Collection, Baghdad’s de facto national art centre.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

The Yorkshire gallery is “where we can do more ambitious projects”, Bill Gerrish says, pointing to the re-creation of the sculptor Austin Wright’s studio (a permanent feature) and this summer’s loan show of sculptures from London’s Ben Uri Gallery & Museum and the Modern Art and St Ives exhibition (both 9 July-18 September).