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The most widely circulated and award-winning publication in its field, ARTnews covers all art, from the ancient to the cutting edge. It provides behind-the-scenes access to galleries, museums, auction houses, and artists' studios. With profiles of artists and collectors, reviews of gallery and museum exhibitions, news dispatches from a worldwide network of correspondents, and hard-hitting investigative reporting, ARTnews offers lively and comprehensive coverage of the people, places, events, and institutions shaping the international culture scene.

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Apocalypse Now • Adding to the annals of ecological disaster brought about by the effects of climate change, the image of wildfire encroaching on the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece, is a disquieting one for the ages. The fires were spurred by the country’s worst heat wave in 40 years, with temperatures exceeding 115 degrees. As the Acropolis closed to tourists, smoke loomed on the horizon, silhouetting centuries-old caryatids against a preternaturally dark daytime sky. Eleni Myrivili, the former deputy mayor of Athens, called the sight “apocalyptic” in an interview with the BBC.

ART TALK

Sonia Gomes Creates a Sculpture • The Brazilian artist finds the poetry in fabric and materials she makes her own

An Open Book • Nine new volumes to add to your collection

The Change We Want to See • A gift to Morehouse College raises hopes for future generations

Around the Block

New Trajectories • Gallerist Nicola Vassell and curator Donna De Salvo talk about changes in museums, the market, and the art world at large

Like That Painting? Swipe Right! • Matching donors with institutions, a new service is “like Tinder for museums”

TOP 200 Collectors • Turn the page for insights into the most powerful, active, and influential art collectors in the world

Collecting for the Future • The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors are helping move the art world forward

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High-Stakes Bidding • The year’s top auction buyers and sellers

TOP 200

IN MEMORIAM: Erich Marx • Erich Marx, who was one of the Top 200 Collectors from 1990–’96, significantly augmented the holdings of Berlin’s public museums by donating to them key works by postwar artists. Among his many beneficiaries was the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, which received pieces by Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and many others. Gabriele Knapstein, Hamburger Bahnhof director, remembers Marx, who died in September 2020.

IN MEMORIAM: Herman Daled • Herman Daled, who was listed among the Top 200 Collectors from 1990–’97, bought works by key Conceptual artists in depth. In 2011, he gave 223 pieces from his holdings and his archive to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in an acquisition that Christophe Cherix, the institution’s chief curator of prints and drawings, oversaw. Cherix remembers the collector, who died in November 2020.

IN MEMORIAM: Hans Rasmus Astrup • Hans Rasmus Astrup, who died at 82 this past April, was Norway’s foremost collector, the owner of major works by Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Elmgreen & Dragset, Torbjørn Rødland, and others. He was on the Top 200 Collectors list from 1992–2020. Solveig Øvstebø, director of the collector’s family museum, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, reflects on Astrup.

Don Marron’s Favorite Things

In It to Win It • From Picassos to NFTs, sports team owners have been scoring major artworks

IN MEMORIAM: Douglas S. Cramer • Douglas S. Cramer, who died at 89 this past June, was a television producer who helped stimulate a collecting scene in Los Angeles during the 1970s, not least as a cofounder, in 1979, of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Cramer was...