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As Hong Kong’s Economy Wavers, Singapore Wants to Become a Destination for Southeast Asian Art. Can a Tiny Art Fair Help the Cause?

Indeed, just like Singapore’s perfectly manicured tree canopies, the intimate, smart-looking art fair—or platform, the term preferred by its organisers—was no happy accident. It was, instead, the product of a carefully coordinated effort on the part of the government to drive arts development. The commercial platform, which focuses on Southeast Asian contemporary art, has taken on an increasingly important role following the abrupt cancellation last year of Art Stage Singapore, formerly the region’s most prominent art fair.

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Botticelli Portrait Goes for $92 M., Becoming Second-Most Expensive Old Masters Work Ever Auctioned

Thursday’s long-awaited Old Masters sale at Sotheby’s New York had been billed as potentially being the biggest sale of its kind ever with a pre-sale estimate, not including buyers’ premium, of $121.9 million–$142.8 million. But after three lots were withdrawn, including a highly rated $20 million–$30 million Rembrandt from the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee Mark Fisch, that estimate was reduced to $100 million–$110 million.