Why Did This Ancient Chinese Handscroll Break Auction Records?

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.
The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.
The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.
The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.
The fundraiser supports the resource-strapped Sulala Animal Rescue, whose “compassion is endless for the animals — the innocent victims of man’s folly,” the artist told Hyperallergic.
The fundraiser supports the resource-strapped Sulala Animal Rescue, whose “compassion is endless for the animals — the innocent victims of man’s folly,” the artist told Hyperallergic.
The fundraiser supports the resource-strapped Sulala Animal Rescue, whose “compassion is endless for the animals — the innocent victims of man’s folly,” the artist told Hyperallergic.
Georgian journalists argued that Mikhail Tereshchenko, a staffer for a Russian state-backed media outlet, should not have received the award for his photos of the Tbilisi protests.
Georgian journalists argued that Mikhail Tereshchenko, a staffer for a Russian state-backed media outlet, should not have received the award for his photos of the Tbilisi protests.
Histories need to be unearthed, recorded, studied, intersected, sung, paraded, and learned, and two Chicago shows do that for the Great Migration.
A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.