The auction marks another step in the house’s growing presence in the modern and historical memorabilia market, where demand continues to shift toward objects with strong provenance and cultural gravity.
The Art Dealers Association of America’s (ADAA) decision to shutter The Art Show and launch a new fair in November 2026 marks a quiet end to one of the art world’s longest-running philanthropic partnerships.
With its title alluding to the 1916 poetry collection Sea Garden by the American poet H.D.
Downtown/Uptown, co-curated by Mary Boone and Brett Gorvy, charts the exterior and interior geographies of these not-so-discrete domains.
The National Museum in Khartoum, which held over 100,000 objects before the war, was ransacked by militias.
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