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• Christie’s Online Sale of Jonathan Burden Decorative Arts Collection Totals More than $1 M., Smashing Low Estimate of $487,500

  Christie's offered potential bidders appointments to Burden's studio to see the items "in situ".

• Art Basel Qatar Lines Up 87 Galleries for Inaugural Edition Next Year

  Sixteen of the exhibitors will be participating in an Art Basel fair for the first time.

• Ari Emanuel’s New Company Finalizes Acquisition of Frieze, with $2 B. in Equity Raised

  The new company, Mari, will also include several tennis events and a majority stake in collector car auction house Barrett-Jackson.

• The 145 Top Art World Professionals in the United States

  A look at the top advisers, lawyers, shippers, and more.

• Art Basel Paris to Launch Ultra-VIP Preview for Fair

  All 203 participating galleries will be able to extend invites, but the fair declined to state how people would be let in.

• Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s Total $136 M. in Hong Kong Evening Sales Amid a Cautious Market

  The results pointed more toward a new normal than to a hoped-for market rebound.

• Blue-Chip Galleries at Frieze London Will Donate Portion of Sales to Gallery Climate Coalition

  The works featured in the initiative will be included in an online viewing room beginning October 4.

• Phillips to Auction $3.5 M. Juvenile Triceratops in Modern and Contemporary Art Sale This November

  The 66-million-year-old specimen is named after a character in "The Land Before Time" film series.

• Rare 14-Foot Yves Klein Painting Estimated at $29 M. to Be Auctioned at Christie’s Paris

  It's one of the largest paintings Klein made.

• Pussy Riot Defiant After Russia Hands Down Harsh Prison Sentences in Absentia

  “Even if I were in Russia, I would say the same thing: fuck you," one member said.