So much has changed about our lives since the last time the Armory Show was in New York (in early March of 2020), we would be right to assume that whenever we came back to the Armory, things might be radically different. And in a sense, they were. Yes, vaccine status was checked at the entrance. Yes, masks were required for collectors and gallery staff alike. And yes, the show has changed venues, moving from its previous location at Piers 92/94 to the cavernous Javits Center, where a sense of expansive professional roominess allowed for a more spread out wandering ... Read more at Collector Daily.

JTF (just the facts): Three videos and nine photo-based artworks from 1995–2006 documenting performances by 15 Chinese contemporary artists, many of them associated with Beijing’s East Village artist’s community of the 1990s. The following works are included in the show. While descriptions are given here as background, the checklist provided no information on processes, physical sizes, or editions: Zhang Huan, Skin (20 Self-Portraits), 1997. A grid of 20 individually framed black-and-white photographs. Ma Liuming, Fen-Ma Liuming Walks the Great Wall, 1998. 16 black-and-white photographs arranged in three rows and framed. Also included in the show is a video documenting the ... Read more at Collector Daily.

In 2016, we reported on 52 auctions from around the world, providing preview and results data on a wide range of specialist photography and photobook sales as well as contemporary art auctions that included a significant percentage of photographic lots. In the slideshow below, the top ten highest priced photography lots sold at auction in 2016 are shown in descending price order, with image details, pre-sale estimates, realized prices, and venues/dates as background (images courtesy of Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips, in varying sizes). While it is altogether possible that there were photographs (or sets of photographs) in other secondary auctions that we didn’t ... Read more at Collector Daily.

Sotheby’s stock took a steep dive after the results of the recent Contemporary Art sales in London, but it wasn’t the photography that was the culprit. Led by an Ai Wei Wei triptych that soared to over £750K and a Richard Prince 1970’s magazine appropriation that sold for more than 14 times its estimate, the photography generally performed admirably, with enough positive surprises to drive the Total Sale Proceeds (for photography anyway) far above the high end of the pre-sale range.... Read more at Collector Daily.

Sotheby’s bats second in the upcoming Contemporary Art season in London, with its Evening and Day auctions next week. It’s a parade of familiar names and faces – a Sherman untitled film still, a Prince cowboy etc. – but in relatively muted and lesser known versions. Ai Weiwei’s boldly reckless Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn leads the way. Overall, there are a total of 26 lots of photography available across the two sales, with a Total High Estimate for photography of £1385000.... Read more at Collector Daily.