New York attorney Daniel Kokhba was one of many investors in 2020 who bought a stake in Cecily Brown’s Girl Trouble, 1999, an 8-foot-tall painting of abstracted reds, oranges, and yellows where figures emerge within thick strokes of paint. Fractional values of Girl Trouble were available to investors at $20 a share, with a minimum
ARTSPLIT, the art investment platform, is making alternative investment assets such as artworks and music more inclusive and accessible for everyday people and at the same time, helping artists to make money from their works. Art pieces are expensive, but what if, with only a token, you could own a slice of one of these
By Kai CurryNORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY I’m in love. I’ve walked into the Kelly Akashi: Formations exhibition at the Frye Art Museum on First Hill and it is at once familiar and new. It’s the largest showing of Akashi’s work thus far, covering up to 10 years of her exploration and experimentation in various media. Kelly
A towering 13-foot bronze equestrian statue gets its own dedicated room in Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the de Young Museum. Modeled after a monument portraying Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, An Archaeology of Silence (2021) depicts a shirtless Black man draped over the saddle of a horse. Here, Wiley unflinchingly portrays the ugly reality of Black
Courtesy: LEN/Christina Marmet The Artistic Swimming European Championships got underway today in Oświęcim, Poland at the III European Games with the Duet Free and Team Free Preliminary events. In the morning, 18 pairs faced off in the hopes of finishing in the top 12 to qualify to the Duet Free Final on 24 June. Anna-Maria
No one likes losing money. But making losses is a perennial risk of being an investor. There are shades of loss, though. Your average ISA investor rarely faces complete financial ruin, but even double-digit losses can cause severe financial and psychological discomfort. I’ve been investing for around 20 years and made some bad decisions (buying
©️ Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy the artist and Templon, Paris, Brussels, and New York. A towering 13-foot bronze equestrian statue gets its own dedicated room in Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the de Young Museum. Modeled after a monument portraying Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart, An Archaeology of Silence (2021) depicts a shirtless Black man draped over the
The work in question is up for auction later this month It’ll be the first time the painting has come to auction in nearly three decades In art news, a piece being auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on June 27 could be the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The piece in question is
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Christie’s auction house accomplished an extraordinary achievement by selling 150 works from the Paul G. Allen Collection for over $1.6 billion. Despite concerns surrounding the economy and cryptocurrencies, affluent collectors from around the world eagerly invested in these prestigious artworks. Five paintings surpassed the $100 million mark, with Georges Seurat’s masterpiece, ‘Les Poseuses, Ensemble,’ leading