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• Satchel Lee Builds Astonishing New Worlds

  25-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  It’s in the gentle, nibbling work of Satchel Lee that astonishing new worlds are built, new terms set. Like Kevin Jerome Everson, Callie Hernandez, and Hong Sang-soo, her attuned senses find, all around her, beauty in the “tiny morbidly life-worn detail,” to borrow a phrase from critic Manny Farber. Beauty: that too-maligned word. Lee’s photographs, videos, miniatures, and music videos testify to a perpetual astonishment. “I love people so much,” she tells me,
  
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• $63.5 M. Modigliani Nude from Joe Lewis Collection Leads Sotheby’s London Double-Header Auction Totaling $520.7 M.

  25-06-2026 01:12 via artnews.com
  
  Against the backdrop of British Prime Ministers Keir Starmer’s resignation and London’s hottest-ever June day, a Sotheby’s double-header evening sale on Wednesday offered a rare note of reassurance. A total of 24 museum-quality works from modernist heavyweights hit the auction block from the collection of billionaire investor Joe Lewis, featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Francis Bacon. A modern and contemporary auction followed, containing lots that read like a
  
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