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Yet this shrill outcry fails to acknowledge that even the markedly lower numbers still represent a
10-fold increase from six month ago. And though trading volume has drifted down from 40,000 to 20,000 transactions per week in the same period, it still stands well above levels only a short time ago.
Will prices vacillate? Of course they will! To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the value of good art, digital or otherwise, will never drop but in the interim, the prices just might. Regarding the overall crypto market, what is indubitable is the wildly volatile price gyrations so vast, erratic, and swift that peaks and troughs are conflated into cycles lasting a single afternoon before the violent whipsaws happen all over again.
Art Industry News: Famed Ceramicist and Part-Time Actor Seth Rogen Is Quietly Building a Star-Studded Art Collection + Other Stories
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Seth Rogen at the 2019 SXSW Conference. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW.
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Seth Rogen and the Secret to Happiness
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How the comedian (and director, writer, ceramist and weed entrepreneur) has made a career out of mining the pitfalls and possibilities of adolescence.
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Seth Rogen’s home sits on several wooded acres in the hills above Los Angeles, under a canopy of live oak and eucalyptus trees strung with outdoor pendants that light up around dusk, when the frogs on the grounds start croaking. I pulled up at the front gate on a recent afternoon, and Rogen’s voice rumbled through the intercom. “Hellooo!” He met me at the bottom of his driveway, which is long and steep enough that he keeps a golf cart up top “for schlepping big things up the driv
Phillips announces the first private selling sculpture exhibition to be sold online through Phillips X
Willem de Kooning, Seated Woman on a Bench, 1972. Image courtesy of Phillips.
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.-Phillips announced Ground / Breaking, the first dedicated sculpture exhibition to be sold online through Phillips X, Phillips private selling exhibition platform. This curated selection of 39 pieces explores the trajectory of 20th and 21st century & contemporary sculpture. Online from 9 April to 21 May 2021, Ground / Breaking will feature works by world renowned artists including Thomas Schütte, Jeff Koons, Willem de Kooning, Ugo Rondinone, Ai Weiwei, Sarah Lucas, Franz West, George Condo, Duane Hanson, and Arthur Jafa, among others.