A glimpse at Adele's artistic tastes, novelist Emma Cline's new collaborations with Gagosian, and more comings and goings in the art world:
natty in a tux, began the proceedings, and things ripped right off the bat. Former Sotheby’s chairmanwas in the audience bidding on behalf of clients on the phone and beat out the Nahmads for the first lot, Jeff Koons’sand a small Robert Ryman painting hammered at nearly twice its high estimate. The de Kooning that the Macklowes got from the Rachofskys sold for more than $24 million, and the Twombly from Gagosian sold for nearly $59 million to a collector on the phone withThe hits kept coming.
“No, I won’t miss them,” Macklowe said. “I’m glad that I can share them with everyone who bought them.”…We can reveal the buyer of the last copy of the U.S. Constitution in private hands was billionaire hedge fund managerwho paid $43.2 million during a sale at Sotheby’s Thursday night. Griffin emerged victorious in the battle for the artifact after outbidding ConstitutionDAO, a consortium that had raised more than $40 million in less than a week through an unprecedented crowdsourcing effort.
…Night Gallery, the Los Angeles art concern that began as a nocturnal operation open only from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., will be opening a massive new space near its current digs in downtown L.A. in January. And yes, it’s open during the day now.
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