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A London gallerist sent his complete collector list in 2019 — names, estimated budgets, purchase history — to a competing colleague. By mistake. The Excel file was attached to the wrong email. The disaster, since reconstructed in various professional circles as a cautionary horror story, is hardly e
In September 2008, as Lehman Brothers was collapsing and financial markets were plunging into panic, Damien Hirst was staging an auction at Sotheby's that would bring in 111 million pounds over two days. The event, titled Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, deliberately short-circuited the gallery-col
In November 2017, Christie's presented Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi in a room plunged into near-darkness, lit by a single golden beam centered on the canvas. No other works, no intrusive labels — just a painting, a light, and the calculated silence of a space that resembled a chapel far more t
In 2004, a warehouse in Leyton, east London, caught fire in the middle of the night. By dawn, dozens of major works of British contemporary art had vanished in the flames — canvases by Tracey Emin, works by Damien Hirst, pieces by Sarah Lucas. The warehouse belonged to MOMART, one of the most respec
In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim signed a contract with Jackson Pollock that would change the history of American art. The arrangement was simple on its face: exclusivity, three hundred dollars a month, a solo exhibition. But behind those clauses lay something far more complex — a relationship built on tru
In November 2022, the sale of the Paul Allen collection at Christie's brought in 1.6 billion dollars in a single evening. A few weeks later, a Parisian gallery specializing in the resale of modern works quietly closed its doors after thirty years of existence, suffocated by unsustainable commissions
In 1985, Emmanuel Perrotin was twenty-three years old and renting a 60-square-metre apartment on rue Beaubourg to exhibit artists nobody else wanted to show. Among them, a certain Maurizio Cattelan, who was not yet the man behind the taped banana. Forty years later, Galerie Perrotin occupies thirtee