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This week: Russian patrons’ long retreat, Mary Boone’s nonprofit penance, Yves Klein’s proto-NFT, and much more.
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This week: Russian patrons’ long retreat, Mary Boone’s nonprofit penance, Yves Klein’s proto-NFT, and much more.
Sanctions are likely to have a minimal effect on the art market at large. But that doesn't mean they won't hit oligarchs where it hurts.
Jo Vickery has opened an art advisory specialising in art from Russia and the former Soviet Union Courtesy of Vickery Art It has been a little over a year since the Russian art specialist Jo Vickery left Sotheby’s after more than 20 years at the auction house. Since then, through the tumult of the pandemic, she has had a baby and launched her own London-based “one-stop” advisory, Vickery Art. “It was a bit like a marriage coming to an end—you feel like two parties are diverging and going down different lines,” Vickery says of leaving Sotheby’s at the end ...