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Art sales: Bono breaks the mould

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Celebrities, including supermodels and pop stars, were out in force with art collectors and dealers for the biggest charity art auction in history in New York last week. It was Valentine’s Day, and Sotheby’s was selling 73 works to raise money for United Nations-funded relief programmes for HIV and Aids in Africa. Organised by Bono, … Read more

I don’t know much about modern art but I know what it costs

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John Preston reviews The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses by Don Thompson Don Thompson has good advice for anyone who walks into an art gallery with even vague thoughts of buying a work of art. Ignore the girl behind the desk who looks at you with withering … Read more

Doig’s quiet path to art recognition, record price

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While British artist Damien Hirst and his crowd rocketed to fame and fortune in the early 1990s, contemporary painter Peter Doig’s rise to prominence has been glacial by comparison. A new exhibition of his work at London’s Tate Britain museum, featuring over 50 canvases, seeks to explain how Doig, born in 1959, was often seen … Read more

Art auction lots – man arrested

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It was the auction that never was, as police tried to trace a thief who stole £30,000 worth of paintings and pottery from the personal collection of Suffolk artist Bernard Rooke. Art enthusiasts filled the auction rooms at Gaze and Sons in Diss each hoping to pick up one of the 34 pieces of Rooke’s … Read more