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A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection
Louise Bourgeois ‘Spider’ Sculpture Achieves Record US$32.8 Million at Sotheby’s
The big-ticket item of the night was a massive bronze cast of Louise Bourgeois’s Spider, which hammered at its $30 million low estimate.
On Thursday night, Sotheby's held two consecutive evening sales at its Upper Manhattan headquarters that brought in a collective $183 million.
It is good to remind ourselves that for every demigod, tyrant, or dictator, their most fierce adversaries are the free thinkers, artists, writers, poets, and other creatives. We should also be reminded that painting, being the oldest form of human expression, long before the invention of language, has held an unusual and sustaining power to reflect directly or indirectly our perpetual struggles among ourselves while providing healing agencies through the artists’ inner impulses, guided by their ideals of truth that are opened to constant self-corrections without fear from others.