Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction
NEW YORK (AP) — An eerie nighttime streetscape below a pale blue daytime sky by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for ...
A $6.2 Million Banana and the Unexpected Return of the Art Market
A $121.2 million René Magritte. A $68.3 million Ed Ruscha. And don’t forget that $6.2 million banana that sold for six times ...
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Iran’s vast collection of Western art re-emerges despite high tensions with US
The government of Iran’s Western-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his wife, the former Empress Farah Pahlavi, built the museum and acquired the vast collection in the late 1970s, when oil ...
Iran's vast collection of Western art, much long hidden, re-emerges despite high tensions with US
As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary ...
How a small NC town landed a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ exhibit with Picasso & Monet
The collection comes from the late Salisbury native, billionaire and philanthropist Julian Roberston and his wife Josie.
Banana duct-taped to wall sells for $6.2 million at NYC art auction
A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on ...
Duct-taped banana sells again at auction — for $6.2 million
"Comedian" was a phenomenon when it debuted in 2019 as people tried to make out whether the piece was a joke or cheeky ...
Art network involving fake Banksy, Warhol and Picasso paintings uncovered in Italy
The operation uncovered a network of forgers in Spain, France and Belgium who produced the works, said Eurojust, the European ...
Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy
Investigators discovered six forgery workshops and seized more than 2,100 fake artworks with a potential market value of about $215 million.