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Starting a Collection on the Cheap
How to buy art without breaking the bank.
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AUCTION REPORTS

Old Masters Reemerge for London Summer Sales

By Amy Page
A misattributed Hals and a lost Watteau were among the week's star lots. Full article
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Contemporary Market Bruised but Resilient After London Sales

By Judd Tully

Week starts slow, but ends in triumph.
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Usual Boys and Girls Sell High at Sotheby’s

By Judd Tully

Bacon, Basquiat, and Prince are top lots. Dumas beats her own record.
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Cuba Libre
Foreign collectors and artists are making their way to the island.
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Controversial Russian Curator Fired from Tretyakov Gallery
Andrey Erofeev, who organized the infamous 2007–08 “Sots Art: Political Art from Russia” exhibition in Paris, was head of the museum’s contemporary art division.
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South African Art Critic Walks Free
A story worthy of a novel, featuring a critic, a spy, and an investigative journalist, who all happen to be the same person.
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Power to the People
The Sonsbeek sculpture exhibition returns to Arnhem.
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In China, Private Art Museums Face Uphill Battle
Two new institutions chart their own paths.
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A Bunker Reborn
ARTINFO takes you inside the newest addition to Berlin’s contemporary art scene.
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Artists' Vote
As Russia’s “democratic” presidential election approaches, five exhibitions in Moscow show that artists can voice opposition more effectively in the gallery than in the polling station.
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The Rise of Fitzrovia
The galleries moving to London’s new contemporary art hub hope to create a neighborhood where the commercial nous of the West End meet the curatorial passion of the East.
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Can MoCA Shanghai Save Itself?
When it opened in 2005, the privately funded museum was heralded as a groundbreaking venue for contemporary art in a city where staid, government-run institutions dominate. More than two years later, these promises remain largely unfulfilled.
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The Perm Anomaly
This little-known Russian city is attracting art-world celebrities from Krens to Markin. Is Perm the next Bilbao?
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