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Insights on Auction Sales: A Terracotta Sculpture, a Hobby Race Car Model

WorthPoint

Whimsical Yet Refined This terracotta sculpture by Salesio Lugli sold for $184,500 at Morphy’s. Morphy’s recent Decorative Arts Auction was full of surprises, with the standout lot being a terracotta sculpture by Salesio Lugli that dramatically exceeded expectations. averaging $78.80 WorthPoint—Discover.

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2024 Moving into 2025 Design Trends Likely to Affect Value of Personal Property

International Society of Appraisers

Sculptural, curvy furniture inspired by natural shapes and patterns is making a comeback. Today, rooms' light fixtures, whether oversized pendants, floating orbs, geometric chandeliers, or hanging pieces of abstract shapes, are more eye-catching and draw the eye to them.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. But Hauser & Wirth is not alone in realising that a commercial gallery can take on a whole new character, audience and purpose in a rural location.

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

Invaluable

Hicks’ creations, which range from “ macro-broderies ”, a play on traditional embroidery, to works with multimedia additions including everything from shells to shoelaces, present a novel take on abstraction and blur the boundaries between textile traditions and sculpture in creative ways. Sold for $1,800 USD via Skinner (February 2013).

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Glastonbury is over—but what might it look like in the future? Artists are proposing a sustainable model

The Art Newspaper

Instead of the usual hoardings and sculptures, festival-goers who found themselves at Shangri-La were greeted with allotments, plants and seeds to take home and sew—all brought together under the banner of The Wilding. Dunnings points out that allotments are one of the last protected spaces for people to cultivate the land in the UK.

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No more business-as-usual: Art Basel demonstrates how dealers can adapt to thrive

The Art Newspaper

For now, Art Basel’s reputation for quality and importance in the art market continues to draw in more seasoned collectors, but that may change in years to come. I would say most galleries have works even by the same artist at different price points, be it editioned works or sculpture or paintings.” Basel is Basel. Miami is Miami.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Art Newspaper

In addition to the well-known Lynch Fragments and other sculptures welded out of barbed wire and chains, the show includes vibrant works on paper, in which Edwards used metal scraps as stencils for spray-paint and watercolour. Family members would fashion such dolls for young girls to augur the birth of their own children.