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Yesterday, the Paul G. Allen Collection achieved more than $ 1.5 billion. This is the highest amount one single auction has ever achieved at an auction house. Christie’s New York sold masterpieces from Allen’s Collection. In 1975 Paul G. Allen founded Microsoft together with Bill Gates. After separating in 1983 Allen continued to invest in […]

From September 12 to 18, 2022 the blockchain week takes place in Berlin. The program offers a wide range of possibilities for everybode to connect within the blockchain community. There are workshops about crypto currency and networks such as Polkadot & Kusama or symposia on themes such as the intersection of blockchain, politics and futurology

Is it a strange coincidence that on Saturday, June 11, 2022 not only the 12th Biennale for Contemporary Art will open in Berlin but also the WTA-500 tennis tournament at the Lawn Tennis Turnier Club Rot-Weiss? There are only so few really international events in the German capital that it sounds at least mysterious to

The painting “The Foxes” by Franz Marc from 1913 was sold in London for more than 42 million pounds on March 1, 2022. By the sale Christie’s achieved a record for Franz Marc. Before the auction could take place, the scramble about the “Foxes” took more than three years. Only in January, 11th – two

The pandemic seems to have given some people more time to think about their professional future. At the moment we see an unusual high amount of new businesses on the art market. You find some interesting new galleries in the Western centres of the market: In Paris, a new gallery for African art is founded

The 10th edition of the Berlin Art Week started for the second time under pandemic conditions. As the German art market is still not back to its level from before the Corona crises this is one of the most important events in Germany for collectors, curators, galleries and art enthusiastics to talk and discuss about

The German Fluxus, happenings and performance artist Joseph Beuys had great influence on the German and European art scene as an artist as well as a theorist of art. He was born 100 years ago on May 12 in 1921. In occasion of this anniversary it seems to be appropriate to take a closer look

From May 21, 2021, the Picture Gallery in Berlin opens its doors for the exhibition: “The Late Gothic Era: The Birth of Modernity“ From today on the Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie) in Berlin shows an impressive new exhibition on late Gothic art in featuring some 130 objects, including key works from the German-speaking world in the

Last Friday, April 23, 2021 the new regulations of the German state come into force which shall help to reduce the spread of the Corona virus. In all German cities and areas with an incidence of more than 100 all museums, operas, theaters and other cultural institutions have to close apart from other strict regulations