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• Art collection expected to fetch at least $600m to help settle divorce

  09-09-2021 18:52
  
  Macklowe collection includes works by artists including Picasso, Rothko and GiacomettiIt is a collection that has attained almost mythical status in the art world, one that contains spectacular works by Picasso, Rothko, Warhol and a nightmarish Giacometti sculpture of a Pinocchio-like nose in a cage.After a US judge ordered its sale to help settle a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce there has been a string of rumours and stories about who would sell the collection and when. Continue
  
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• The Lost Leonardo: has a new film solved the mystery of the world’s most expensive painting?

  09-09-2021 15:08
  
  Is the $450m Salvator Mundi a fake? This film – featuring tearful sycophants, sneering experts, dodgy dealers and a secretive superyacht – may finally settle the great Da Vinci controversyIt is almost exactly 10 years since Salvator Mundi was unveiled, this “lost Leonardo” instantly triggering astonishment around the world. Since those giddy days, the work has had a turbulent time. As well as becoming the most expensive painting in history, going for $450m (£326m) a
  
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• Ontario University Brings Back The Organ

  09-09-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a bit of a hipster thing, the organ in its day was the technological marvel that the computer is today, and there’s a fascination with old things.” – CBC
  
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