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Market · New York
The Upper East Side townhouse that the late MoMA trustee Barbara Jakobson treated as a living gallery for six decades is on the market for $8.99 million, after a price cut of more than $800,000 from its April asking price of $9.8 million.
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Market · Global
Piaget has turned Andy Warhol's 1986 Camouflage self-portraits into a limited-edition watch, rebuilding the pattern as a dial of sodalite, turquoise and gold in just 86 pieces.
Source date ·Exhibitions · People · New York
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, who lost her central vision to Stargardt disease, premieres House at White Cube New York this November: a full-sized home woven from human hair, built over three years with dozens of assistants. The work turns forced displacement into its subject, arguing that beauty restores dignity to victims of violence.
Source date ·Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction: XXIV opened on 7 November with a CHF 48.7 million first session in which an F.P. Journe Vagabondage III sold for CHF 5,057,000, more than seven times its high estimate, while a steel Patek Philippe 1436 from 1945 reached CHF 6,267,000.
Source date ·The fourth and last known Sèvres breast-shaped bowl made for Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet has resurfaced after more than two centuries and will be auctioned at Hôtel Drouot on 26 November, estimated at €1–2 million.
The Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2026 found 72% of the 3,100 wealthy collectors surveyed had received works from family or friends, and 75% had kept at least some of what they inherited — raising questions about tax, storage and family legacy.
Source date ·Two months after the artist was found dead in his Manhattan home, New York City's medical examiner has ruled that Lucien Smith died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and oxycodone.
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São Paulo-based artist Diambe joins Artsy's Vanguard 2027, the platform's annual list of ten emerging artists to watch. Working in beeswax, bronze and egg tempera, Diambe turns Brazil's extreme heat into a material record of climate change, with two new exhibitions opening this week in Curitiba and Milan.
Source date ·The only known specimen of Dubreuillosaurus valesdunensis, a 167-million-year-old French dinosaur, goes under the hammer at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 18 November, estimated at €280,000–€390,000. Palaeontologists are petitioning to stop the sale of the holotype, the reference fossil for the whole species, while the Millon auction house says the sale is legal and the fossil could still be lent to museums.
Source date ·The Vatican Museums have completed the first cleaning of Michelangelo's Last Judgement in more than 30 years, removing a white film of calcium lactate left by visitors' perspiration and revealing fresh detail about the artist's brushwork and handling of volume.
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ArtScience Museum in Singapore will give Asia its first showing of More than Human: Making With the Living World, opening 28 November 2026 and running to 16 May 2027. More than 140 works by nearly 55 artists and designers explore how humans and other species can live together; the Singapore edition adds 25 works from Asia.
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