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Art Economist Contends Galleries Undergo Scarcity Of New Collectors

Art Market Watch CHRISTIE’S CONTEMPORARY DOES A RECORD $388 MILLIONOn auctioneer Christopher Burge’s final night on the podium, a historic sale with a minimal of 11 new public sale information. Art Market Watch WERNER MUENSTERBERGER AND AFRICAN ART AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK by Jessica MizrachiAfrican art from the gathering of art scholar Werner Muensterberger, who theorized that collecting was an Oedipal ardour. Metropolitan Museum director Thomas Campbell unveils an impressive fall and winter schedule, and responds to new claims of looted antiquities in the assortment. News of Uli Sigg’s major donation to a Hong Kong museum spurs forecasts of an …