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Global art sales suffer sharp fall
Business, AFP, Published on 05/10/2016
» Paris: Global contemporary art sales slowed by a quarter in the year to July 2016 as demand in China dried up, according to online art price database Artprice.
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Early Renaissance painting found in kitchen fetches €24m
AFP, Published on 27/10/2019
» SENLIS, France: A rare masterpiece by Italian early Renaissance master Cimabue that was discovered in a French kitchen was sold on Sunday for €24 million, about five times the initial estimate.
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£9.9m chimp parliament painting smashes Banksy record
AFP, Published on 04/10/2019
» LONDON: A Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the mysterious British street artist on Thursday, fetching nearly £9.9 million, Sotheby's auction house said.
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Met adds modern jewel to famed New York art scene
AFP, Published on 03/03/2016
» NEW YORK - New York is adding to its glittering portfolio of art museums with a new gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary art -- The Met Breuer, which opens with a retrospective of a little known Indian artist.
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Street art makes a splash in Hong Kong
AFP, Published on 26/03/2018
» HONG KONG - From murals made famous by Instagram to painting battles, Hong Kong's once largely underground street art scene has exploded in recent years, and is now blossoming across the city's walls and alleyways.
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'Thin Ice' director sees China's art-house scene breaking through
AFP, Published on 15/05/2014
» Director Diao Yinan is enjoying unprecedented domestic success with his gritty thriller “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, but says he could achieve more if it were not for the restrictions censors impose on him and his fellow Chinese art-house filmmakers.
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Art in a pandemic: Tokyo show tests if fans will come
AFP, Published on 31/07/2020
» TOKYO - It's a blockbuster exhibition, featuring some of the biggest names in Japan's contemporary art scene. But will people flock to galleries in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic?
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Aboriginal painter, aged 105, happy to see her art make its mark
AFP, Published on 17/03/2016
» SYDNEY - Australian artist Loongkoonan only began painting aged about 95, little more than 10 years on her works have electrified the indigenous art scene and are now being exhibited overseas.
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Arts agenda: Stanley Kubrick, Art Kyiv, Yixian Photo Fest
AFP, Published on 29/10/2012
» Take in Stanley Kubrick's cinematic and photographic span in LA, check out the Ukranian art scene in Kyiv, and glimpse a vision of nature and urbanism at China's Yixian Photo Fest.
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Worlds apart: Hong Kong's great art divide
AFP, Published on 23/03/2018
» HONG KONG: As international galleries and wealthy collectors descend on Hong Kong for Art Basel, life for some of the city's creatives is still a struggle to make ends meet.
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