17 March 2021
Auction volumes spiked across the combined capital cities last week to the second highest number of weekly auctions over the year-to-date, according to figures.
Property research group CoreLogic’s auctions data for the week ending 14 March has revealed that there were 2,232 homes taken to auction last week, returning a preliminary auction clearance rate of 83.2 per cent.
This was slightly lower than the previous week’s preliminary rate of 84.5 per cent, which later revised down to 80 per cent as final results were collected.
CoreLogic stated that a similar 2,274 auctions were held over the same week last year, but close to 20 per cent fewer homes were sold (65.3 per cent).
SMK opens outdoor exhibition: three artists respond to a year of COVID-19
Benedikte Bjerre, Eee-O-Eleven, 2021.
COPENHAGEN
.- One year has gone by since Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced the first COVID-19 lockdown of Denmark. The anniversary is marked by a new outdoor exhibition jointly arranged by SMK, Coop, Danish Red Cross and Hjaltelin Stahl. Here, three leading artists present three entirely new works of art created as a response to the pandemic.
A giant laptop. A sentence spelled out in recycled bricks. And a video collage featuring hands, elbow bumps and socially distanced meetings.
In a new outdoor exhibition, the three artists Benedikte Bjerre, Kaspar Bonnén and Sonja Lillebæk Christensen each offer their take on an artistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition opens one year after Denmarks first lockdown due to the coronavirus and the works are displayed in the museum garden in front of SMK National Gallery of Denmark, where a
Nasir condemns terror bid
Syed Nasir Hussain Shah. PHOTO: Syed Nasir Hussain Shah
Sindh Information Minister Nasir Hussain Shah condemned on Tuesday the attack on Pakistan Rangers personnel in Orangi Town a day prior and stated that the chief minister has directed the Sindh IGP and Karachi police chief to increase patrolling in the metropolis to avoid such incidents.
Anti-state elements will be dealt with severely, said Shah, while briefing the media on the Sindh Cabinet’s decisions on Tuesday.
The crime rate in Karachi had drastically fallen due to the sacrifices of law enforcement agencies including the police,Pakistan Rangers Sindh and others, said Shah.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads sale of African Americana at Swann
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an early draft of the Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Printed & Manuscript African Americana is on offer at Swann Galleries Thursday, March 25. The sale will feature an exceptional offering of material with highlights from important figures and historical movements, including Frederick Douglass; slavery and abolition; the Civil Rights Movement, with items relating to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the Black Panthers.
The sale is led by an early draft of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963, at $15,000 to $25,000. Additional material related to Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement include a reel-to-reel tape recording of Dr. King speaking to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at a planning meeting for the Poor Peoples Campaign in January 1968 ($10,000-15,000); a pennant from the 1963 March on