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Insights on Auction Sales: A Transformer and a Stamp Collection

WorthPoint

2nd Cents Auctions , based in Cleveland, Ohio, specializes in an eclectic mix of collectibles—everything from rock and roll memorabilia to retro tech, vinyl, and video games. For anyone into geek culture or nostalgia-driven collecting, this sale had some hidden gems. Experience is often the best teacher in the antiques world.

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Giambologna marble sculpture

The Art Newspaper

The only other Giambologna marble in a collection outside Italy is his Samson Slaying the Philistine (1560-62) at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The team is especially pleased with the condition of the piece. The other marble sculpture by Giambologna in the US, another nude dated to 1571-73, was bought by the Getty in 1982.

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Art Gallery of Ontario acquires more than 200 Peter Hujar photographs

The Art Newspaper

© 2025 The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The acquisitions comes as the gallery’s photography department prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the exhibition Collective Visions: Celebrating 25 Years of Photography (opening 7 November), which will feature around 80works chosen by the local community.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting thought to be lost for decades goes on display in Basel

The Art Newspaper

The foundation’s collection—drawn from the acquisitions of the Swiss father and son collectors Karl and Jürg Im Obersteg—is on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel. Tanz im Varieté (Dance at the Varieté, 1911) was restored at the museum over a number of months, and has now been added to the museum’s Paarlauf (Pairings) exhibition.

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Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise

The Art Newspaper

The first fund in 2022 raised €20m from Swedish investors, which was spent on 46 primarily post-war and contemporary works by artists such as Carmen Herrera, María Berrío, Sheila Hicks, Omar Ba and Stanley Whitney (one work has already been sold, for a profit). ‘A So, the appeal of Arte Collectum was threefold for him.

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Saudi Arabia helps cultural businesses reach global audiences

The Art Newspaper

The Maker's Lab project by the Almashtal creative incubator in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Photo: Courtesy CDF This year has been named the Year of Handicrafts in Saudi Arabia, in order to highlight their importance to the kingdom’s history, identity and economic growth.

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