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Qi Bashi's work sold for a record $65 million at Guardian Auctions in Beijing.

Chinese Artist Dethrones Picasso as Top Auction Earner
Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle - January 12th, 2012 10:05

Sales of works by Picasso have ranked the modern master as the world auction market's leading earner for most years since 1997, and until 2011. Chinese artist Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) now claims the top slot with $506.7 million in aggregated auction revenue, followed by...

Matthew Eskuche, the whitewashing of corporate greed, flameworked glass and spray paint

Spotlighting Consumerism: University of Arizona Museum of Art features the work of Matt Eskuche and Matthias Düwel
Release Date: 09 January 2012
According to the Environmental Protection Agency website, Americans generate 250 million tons of trash a year - the equivalent of 4.43 pounds person per day. (Source: http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/municipal/) Of that 250 million tons, 85 million tons are recycled. The University of ...

The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Coming of Age in America: The Photography of Joseph Szabo
Release Date: 10 January 2012
The Heckscher Museum of Art is pleased to present Coming of Age in America: The Photography of Joseph Szabo on view from January 14 through March 25, 2012. This exhibition, which features more than 50 black-and-white photographs by Joseph Szabo, is the first museum retrospective of this ...

SEVEN COPPER AND BRASS PETROL MEASURES ..BY GASKELL & CHAMBERS LTD., BIRMINGHAM, EARLY 20TH CENTURY.

Eve Stone to Unveil Exceptional, Rare Metal Ware at Antiques at the Armory Show, Jan. 20-22, NYC
Release Date: 11 January 2012
Eve Stone Antiques, Ltd. of Woodbridge, CT., experts in period metal ware, will be participating in the exciting 2012 Antiques at the Armory Show. They will be showing this exceptional, English, set of SEVEN COPPER AND BRASS PETROL MEASURES ..BY GASKELL & CHAMBERS LTD., BIRMINGHAM, ...

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	Gray’s launch 2012 with Winter Fine Furniture, Paintings & Decorative Arts auction Release Date: 12 January 2012 Cleveland, OH - Gray’s Auctioneers & Appraisers launch 2012 with their Fine Furniture, Paintings & Decorations auction, which takes place on January 26 at 11am in Cleveland, Ohio. Live online bidding for this auction is provided by Live Auctioneers. Highlights from this auction ... Read more

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