Have you wondered about the feeling of bidding against other bidders in a fast-paced art and design auction? Your heart beats faster, your palms sweat, your adrenaline rushes. If you are competitive by nature, you might need to keep yourself in check, but attending a live auction is genuinely thrilling. And what better way to immerse yourself into it than visiting Wright Auction? Richard Wright, who began buying at flea markets and thrift stores before he turned his enterprise into a world-famous auction house, has handled more than 40,000 lots of twentieth- and twenty-first-century design since its 2000 founding. Wright is headquartered in an elegant 40,000-square-foot, part-warehouse, part-auction-house building in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, with a second location on Madison Avenue in New York City. Among the treasures: design objects, furniture, post-war and contemporary art. Once, he even auctioned off the entire interior of chef René Redzepi’s groundbreaking Copenhagen restaurant, noma. Coming up, works by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Going once, going twice, sold! (Vasia Rigou)
Today in the Culture, May 3, 2021: KJM at Auction | Margaret Byrne Hot Docs | Trib Time's Almost Up ART Kerry James Marshall’s Nat Turner Portrait To Sell At Auction Kerry James Marshall’s 1991 painting "Nat-Shango (Thunder)," a portrait of an enslaved man, Nat Turner, who led an 1831 rebellion in Virginia, will be up for auction, reports ARTnews. "The painting will be sold during Christie’s contemporary art evening sale on May 11, where it is expected to…
