Christie’s Holds Its Nerve Mid-Marathon as the 21st Century Evening Sale Secures a Steady $123.6 Million

Christie’s Holds Its Nerve Mid-Marathon as the 21st Century Evening Sale Secures a Steady 3.6 Million

Yü-Ge Wang sells the top lot of the 21st Century Evening Sale: Christopher Wool’s Untitled (RIOT). Courtesy of Christie’s We are already halfway through this week’s auction marathon, and the fatigue is beginning to press in—following the adrenaline rush of the first record-setting sessions, with Sotheby’s $706 million Evening Sale and Christie’s $689 million opener.…

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The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City

The Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale Calls for a Radical Rethinking of the Contemporary City

Each exhibition asks how urban life is shaped by extraction, measurement and the accelerating forces of the technosphere. Sara Constanca, courtesy Fiatlux Experience The Earth can never belong to any one species, says Emanuele Coccia. “And it is only if the city ceases to think of itself as an improbable “naturally human ecosystem” opposed to…

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