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Insights on Auction Sales: Van Cleef & Arpel Jewels, Karl Springer Tables

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Not to be outdone, Rago’s delivered its own showstopper with a standout modern art auction that totaled $1,054,730 across 143 lots. These sculptural pieces featured amorphic, seamless brass bases topped with thick 0.75″ reverse-painted black glass, giving off that unmistakable Springer blend of glamour and bold design.

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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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Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

The Art Newspaper

The resulting pieces reveal both performance and painting, a hybrid body co-authoring with machine memory. They don’t reject technology wholesale Michelle Kuo, chief curator at large, Museum of Modern Art It means active engagement with AI—even to break it. Artists take a tool and make it do something it’s not supposed to do.

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Artistic Mediums of 2025: Where Touch and Technique Meet

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Both collectors and curators are sharpening their eye for the material and physical aspects of both emerging and established talents. As a result, the skills of craftsmanship are competing with the screen-based digital art realm as many turn toward the handmade. Sold for $75,000 USD via Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. February 2025).

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As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging

The Art Newspaper

Visitors to Tarkib, a contemporary art platform that was launched ten years ago © Image courtesy of Tarkib Artists are also chafing at the conservativism of the art scene, which remains dominated by painting. For this reason, both Tarkib and Babil Performance Art refuse to accept public funds.

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A century of Robert Rauschenberg: Blurring Boundaries, Redefining Art

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When you think of artists who changed the course of 20th-century art, Robert Rauschenberg stands out not just for his revolutionary ideas, but for his fearless exploration of materials, media, and meaning. “Painting relates to both art and life.

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What Makes a Work of Art Timeless in an Age Obsessed with Now?

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From Leonardo da Vinci ’s Mona Lisa to Vincent van Gogh ’s Starry Night, Michelangelo ’s David, Pablo Picasso ’s Guernica, and beyond, a handful of works of art remain vital, modern, and as immune to trends as ever. It’s a radical quality in a culture obsessed with immediacy, but timeless art resists this pressure.

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