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Art from Microsoft founder Paul Allen sells for $1.5 billion

Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G

The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2022

Paul Allen's Art Collection Tops $1 bn at Christie's

Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt. At the end of the night Wednesday, five paintings entered the exclusive…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 10, 2022

Paul Allen's art collection tops $1bn at Christie's

NEW YORK: Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic US$1 billion on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt.

Bangkok Post · Nov 10, 2022

Netherlands travel guide: Everything you need to know before you go

It’s not just Amsterdam: from opulent canal palaces and museums crammed with masterpieces, to miles of patchwork polders and caramel-coloured sand dunes, the Netherlands provides culture and countryside galore

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022

Soup on a Van Gogh, mashed potatoes on a Monet: Why are activists throwing food on priceless art?

Centuries-old paintings have been targeted by environmentalists as a way of drawing attention to their cause, with Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring joining the soupy ranks.

ABC News · Oct 28, 2022

Raging over spilt milk: behind the scenes of Animal Rebellion

Whether it’s activists gluing themselves to roads or upending supermarket dairy products, radical climate protests are everywhere. Tom Ellen talks to the campaigners — and police — to find out what goes into these acts… and how much it’s all likely to achieve

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2022

Climate activists divided on souping art

Some say the protests are counterproductive, while others insist the tactics are beside the point.

Axios · Oct 26, 2022

Bob Geldolf says Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup on Van Gogh are ‘clever’

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2022

I have never felt shame like this as we keep ignoring climate change

I am bemused by the reaction to the climate salvation protests, which include some journalists suggesting motorists assault protesters when they glue themselves to the road. (Their obvious intentions are littered with lawyerly caveats, which is offensive. Euphemisms are for the cowardly and lost).

Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2022

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2022