The high-profile civil trial between Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and Sotheby’s began last week
Photos: Francknataf; Timon
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This week: the astonishing civil trial in Manhattan between a Russian oligarch and Sotheby’s.
The Art Newspaper’s acting art market editor, Tim Schneider, witnessed the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s testimony in the trial in New York in which he accuses Sotheby’s of aiding the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier in an alleged fraud. It relates to the sale of major works of art, including the controversial Leonardo painting Salvator Mundi. Tim joins us to tell us about this extraordinary case.
Art SG is opening at a more modest scale than last year, pictured
The second edition of Art SG art fair in Singapore has opened—with a 29% fall in the number of galleries. It takes place amid a wider festival, Singapore Art Week, and Lisa Movius, our reporter in Asia, tells us about the mood in Singapore and the wider art scene beyond Art SG. She also reflects on last weekend’s election in Taiwan.
Zanele Muholi, ZaVa III. Paris (2013)
Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York; © Zanele Muholi
And our first Work of the Week of 2024 is the South African artist Zanele Muholi’s photograph ZaVa III, Paris (2013). The image is one of more than 100 works in Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, an exhibition that has just opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Shana Lopes, one of the curators of the exhibition, tells us more.