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Hong Kong is taking center stage on the global conspicuous-consumption circuit this week as billionaires descend on the city to choose from Angelina Jolie’s diamonds, Andy Warhol’s paintings and bottles of Romanee-Conti.
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In one respect at least the contemporary sculptor Antony Gormley has outdone Michelangelo.
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The U.K.’s wealthiest living artist, Damien Hirst, has parted ways with the Gagosian gallery, which represented him for the past 17 years.
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Even before sitting down to write this review, I mentioned to artists Gilbert & George my idea for a provocative headline. While I didn’t offer any guarantees -- giving them the right to vet the wording would be a Faustian contract that would cost me my job -- I figured a pair who have been using art to shock for more than 40 years would approve.
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The editors and writers for Bloomberg’s Muse arts and culture section chose their favorite moments of 2012. Here they are, led off by Executive Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff:
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Rihanna brings her raunchy R&B, Drake his clean-cut rap and Deadmau5 his illuminated mouse ears to London for the three-day Wireless Festival.
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Bon Jovi will be ripping the roof off the O2 again on Friday night.
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Roman Abramovich was buying and Damien Hirst works selling yesterday in Basel as art dealers hailed a return to levels of demand seen before the financial crisis.
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White-coated attendants stand by a white sphere, resembling an early bathyscaphe or a space vehicle from a vintage sci-fi film. At intervals, a hatch in the side opens, a dazed art lover emerges and a fresh one lies down on a stretcher and is slid into the mysterious recesses of the thing.
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The Vatican will have its own contemporary-art pavilion at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale, a first in its 84-year history as an independent state, Biennale organizers said at a news briefing in London.
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