Can These Six Artists Predict the Fate of the Art Market?

Can These Six Artists Predict the Fate of the Art Market?

The spring sales of modern and contemporary art often arrive in May with a steady drumroll of paintings whose estimates soar above $50 million — a sign of confidence in the industry’s roster of ultrawealthy collectors who trade them like financial assets. Now that drumroll sounds like rain’s pitter-patter as …

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Angelina Jolie Wants to Pick Up Where Warhol and Basquiat Left Off

Angelina Jolie Wants to Pick Up Where Warhol and Basquiat Left Off

It was a Saturday night, and behind the graffiti-scrawled facade of Atelier Jolie, her downtown creative space and gallery, Angelina Jolie was in conversation with the artist Shirin Neshat. The topics were heady: the plight of refugees, the rights of women, how to wrench meaning from exile; the value of …

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