In February 1637, at the height of the speculative frenzy in the Netherlands we now know as “tulip mania,” a single bulb of the prized…
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Tag: Collectors and Collections
Hired by the Empress of Art at Tehran’s Hidden Museum
On the edge of a vast park in Tehran sits a Neo-Brutalist structure the color of sand. Inside is one of the finest collections of…
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Hired by the Empress of Art at Tehran’s Hidden Museum
On the edge of a vast park in Tehran sits a Neo-Brutalist structure the color of sand. Inside is one of the finest collections of…
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Why Did Someone Pay $560,000 for a Picture of My Column?
$98,000. $143,000. $277,000. After more than 30 bids, the auction ended at 12:32 p.m. Eastern time, with a winning bid of 350 ether, or about…
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Investment Mania: From Crypto Art to Trading Cards
“Most people are cheering, but at the same time, shaking their heads and going, when is the bust coming?” said Jane Leung, the chief investment…
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The $69 Million Beeple NFT Was Bought With Cryptocurrency
An artwork by Beeple which exists only as a digital file and was sold as a “nonfungible token” for a staggering $69.3 million at an…
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JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace
Last month, buoyed by a $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment from Tesla, the electric-car company run by Elon Musk, and support from major institutional investors including…
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The Grocery Store of the Mind
On my desk is a detailed miniature shaker of McCormick Crushed Red Pepper flakes. The bottle is small enough to pinch between my thumb and…
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A New Era of Million Dollar Sports Trading Cards Is Here
“Maybe I should have kept that one,” Trout joked with reporters a few days later. Trout’s card sold in August, shortly after the market for…
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How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief
By the late 1990s, most of the Nazi art experts who helped loot European Jews were either dead or living quiet lives under the radar.…
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