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  • A MoMA Retrospective Proves Duchamp Was More Sincere Than He Seems

    The first rooms of MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp retrospective almost dare the visitor to find in his early paintings some hint of the artist’s future travesty of those mediums. The picture with which the show opens—a placid scene of the artist’s two older brothers, Gaston (Jacques Villon) and Raymond, engrossed in a game of chess—telegraphs Duchamp’s read more

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  • Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets $265 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors

    This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million). The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s equivalent sale last read more

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    Christie’s Triple-Header 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales Nets 5 M., as London Proves It’s Still a Draw to Collectors