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Auction houses are recording a boom in sales after a return to pre-pandemic levels of supplies of works
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Auction houses are recording a boom in sales after a return to pre-pandemic levels of supplies of works
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The World Wide Web sells for $7.2 million in Sotheby’s auction We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Coral Murphy Marcos and Scott Reyburn July 1, 2021 — 9.46am Normal text size Advertisement NFTs, the hot collectible that has been embraced by the founder of Twitter, the National Basketball Association and the artist who created a flying cat with a Pop-Tart body, has cast its reach back to the beginning of the digital age: the source code to an early version of World Wide Web. Sotheby’s on Wednesday auctioned off the code, created by Ti...
Order Reprints Print Article A visitor enjoys a striking exhibit by Niyi Olagunji shown by Tafeta Gallery during the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House in London on Oct. 8. Getty Images Text size For gallery owners, artists, and collectors, life before the pandemic often involved getting on a plane and going to Paris, Los Angeles, or maybe Shanghai, to attend the next splashy art fair. But all that was upended, of course, as the pandemic shut down fair after fair. First to announce a closure was Art Basel Hong Kong, which canceled its March fai...