Collectors and Collections – Page 4

Liu Yiqian, China’s Top Art Collector, Is Selling a Modigliani

Liu Yiqian made global headlines in 2014 and 2015 by paying top prices for paintings and antiquities but is starting to liquidate some of his artworks.

The Market for Nazi Memorabilia Is Huge, Lucrative and Very Disturbing

An SS dagger. Auschwitz cups. Hitler’s globe. If an object played a material role in the Third Reich, then it’s probably for sale. Why do we allow it?

Tickets to Theater on the Night Lincoln Was Shot Sell for $262,500.

Two bits of green paper for admission to Ford’s Theater on the night of Lincoln’s assassination were sold for $262,500.

Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead

The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.

Arsenic Preserved the Animals, But Killed the Museum

A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the “works of art.”