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• Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  07-07-2024 10:00
  
  Bonhams has been forced to clarify how it holds auctions for good causes after complaints about a recent saleBonhams, the leading auction house, has clarified how it conducts its charity auctions after complaints that it was taking a “buyer’s premium” from a recent sale for a good cause.The buyer’s premium is a charge in addition to hammer price that is retained by the auction house. Continue reading...
  
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• In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s review – a small yet blazing act of solidarity

  07-07-2024 10:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Rescued from bombarded Kyiv in 2022, wildly dynamic works born out of war, revolution and Stalin’s purges, by artists including Kazymyr Malevych and Sonia Delaunay, attest to Ukraine’s moving spirit of freedom then and nowThe paintings in the Royal Academy’s startling new show are political refugees. They were loaded on to lorries to be driven out of Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. A Tuesday was chosen, as the Russians generally bombed the city on Mondays, but
  
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• My friend David Hockney: Martin Gayford on the prophet of painting

  07-07-2024 09:00
  
  Thanks to his sharp wit and turn of phrase, the British artist’s voice is almost as distinctive as his line. A new book introduced by the art critic Martin Gayford gathers his musings on art, life, nature, creativity and moreIn a cardboard box in my attic there is a complete aural record of the first conversation I ever had with David Hockney. It is stored on dusty cassette tape which seemed like fairly current technology in 1995 when I interviewed him ahead of an exhibition at the Royal A
  
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