This Week’s Top Stories: Chinese Billionaires' Modigliani Flops at Auction, and When Cindy Sherman Met Sofia Coppola

Market

Surprise Flop at Hong Kong Auction for Chinese Mega Collectors
Two Chinese billionaires’ $58m sale of their museum-quality art proved disappointing at Sotheby’s Hong Kong as they “lost” $8m on Amedeo Modigliani’s 1919 painting Paulette Jourdain purchased in 2015 when it hammered for $30m. (South China Morning Post)

Profile

When Cindy Sherman Met Sofia Coppola
Cindy Sherman has interviewed Sofia Coppola about their mutal interest in Priscilla Presley during which Sherman reveals that she found making her one movie far harder than still photography. (AnOther)

Shows

Ed Ruscha’s Keeps Calm as America Burns
There are a lot of fires depicted by Ed Ruscha in his MoMA retrospective but instead of disaster scenes, his art is a sea of tranquillity, finds The New Yorker’s art critic, who is not among the fans of the artist’s "candy-coated" Chocolate Room. (The New Yorker)

Museum

Kerry James Marshall Goes to Cambridge
The US artist Kerry James Marshall’s portrait of the academic Henry Louis Gates, his first living sitter, has been unveiled at the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge. (The Guardian)

Legal

Billionaire Collector Bernard Arnault Under Investigation
The French billionaire and mega collector Bernard Arnault is facing questions from a Paris prosecutor over alleged financial transactions involving the sale of ski resort properties and a Russian businessman. (The Guardian)

NFT

Beeple Completes 6,000 Everydays
The artist has reached a landmark in his digital art project “Everydays” completing a new work for the past 6,000 days. (The Crypto Times)

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