The craze for contemporary art has hit a record high. On May 16, a sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s in Rockefeller Center fetched a record $495 million – the most ever for any art auction. Leading the sales was Jackson Pollock’s classic drip painting “No. 19, 1948” at a record $58.3 million.…
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