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Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." [1] His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction.
In 2018, a framed copy of the work was shredded after being sold at auction by way of a mechanical device Banksy had hidden inside the frame. Banksy confirmed that he was responsible for the shredding and gave the altered piece a new name, Love is in the Bin. Sotheby's said it was "the first work in history ever created during a live auction."
Cave art hoax with accompanying exhibit label, hung on a wall in the British Museum, removed after two or three days and subsequently accessioned; in 2005. [1]Two works jetwashed away and a third work, of a boy holding a stereo and a teddy bear, the subject of legal action opposing its ablation by Hackney Council in order "to keep streets clean", in Dalston, London; in 2009.
Dated to circa 1500, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which depicts Jesus Christ, took the art world by storm in 2017 when it sold for a stupefying $450.3 million. According to Christie ...
The original files from the practice sessions leading up to the event, saved on a long-lost diskette, have resurfaced and are now being sold for $26 million in a private sale.
Experts at a New York-based art data science firm believe a long-lost piece by Vincent van Gogh was sold at a garage sale in Minnesota and recently published a report about its investigation. In a ...
Many valuable paintings have been stolen.The paintings listed are from masters of Western art which are valued in millions of U.S. dollars.The US FBI maintains a list of "Top Ten Art Crimes"; [1] a 2006 book by Simon Houpt, [2] a 2018 book by Noah Charney, [3] and several other media outlets have profiled the most significant outstanding losses.
Washington's attorney general said Amazon "unreasonably restrained competition in order to maximize its own profits off third-party sales."