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Extraordinary Paula Rego retrospective

What an extraordinary Paula Rego (b 1935) retrospective at the Tate Britain and impossible to do it justice in ten images only, as her...

Happy bday Jeffrey

Happy birthday to the one and only Jeffrey Deitch! [seen here with Jeff Koons; photo taken by me]

At the Races

As Royal Ascot is taking place at the moment, here a flashback to an exhibit I curated at Baden-Baden during the so called Grosse Woche,...

British Photographer Martin Parr became CBE

Congrats to Martin Parr for having been awarded the CBE title in the Queen’s Birthday Honors 2021! According to Artlyst “Martin Parr is...

Crypto Banksy

Congrats to Sotheby's for selling this Banksy for more than twice the high estimate, namely for $12.9m. The sale happened minutes after...

1983 Basquiat sold for $93m

Yesterday the co-founder of the fashion house Maison Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, sold on his birthday the work "In this case" by...

1932 Picasso at Christie's

I'm in absolute awe with the 1932 Picasso Femme assise près de la fenêtre (146cm x 114cm) that Christie’s will auction off in May in NYC....