Market - Finestre sull'Arte

Rome, Divario gallery closes: "cultural and commercial function together? It's unsustainable."

After just five years of existence, the Divario gallery in Rome has closed. It had been founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Filippo Tranquilli and over the years had stood out for a refined proposal, centered particularly on photography, with mostly youn...
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At auction at Sotheby's is the Giordano Collection, one of the most important existing collections of decorative arts

A significant part of Gianni Giordano's sumptuous collection, one of the most important existing collections of decorative arts, will be dispersed between today and tomorrow, November 26 and 27, 2024, in anauction at Sotheby 's in Paris. A collection...
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A rare Claude Monet seascape goes up for auction: it is the only painting in winter

An important painting by Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926), Mer agitée à Pourville, goes up for auction at Lempertz in Cologne on Nov. 29: executed in 1882, it is Monet's only beach scene depicting the Normandy landscape during...
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Maurizio Cattelan's banana sold for more than $6 million

It sold for an incredible $6,240,000 Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan's famous work, the banana attached to the wall with packing tape. It was sold tonight in New York at auction at Sotheby's, which had estimated $1-1.5 million for "the banana that broke ...
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In auction in New York the oldest known table with the Ten Commandments

In December, Sotheby's will auction at its New York headquarters a singular item: the oldest stone tablet engraved with the Ten Commandments. Dating from the late Byzantine period, this artifact is about 1,500 years old and is the only complete table...
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Artissima 2024, our selection: 20 works to see (with prices)

Artissima, Turin's contemporary art fair, reaches its thirty-first edition in 2024, confirming the Piedmontese capital as one of the nerve centers for the contemporary art market. Among the thousands of works presented in the galleries of Artissima, ...
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Unbelievable. Cattelan's banana up for auction for $1 million

$1 million for Cattelan's banana. Comedian, the celebrated banana taped to the wall, a 2019 work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, Italy, 1960) will indeed go to auction at Sotheby's, with an estimate of $1 to $1.5 million. It will be the highlight of the...
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Veronafiere launches call for new artistic direction of ArtVerona

Veronafiere is launching a call for applications to select the new artistic direction of ArtVerona for the next three-year period. Applications must be submitted by Oct. 31, while the deadline for submission is Nov. 25. Applicants should have experi...
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