NEW YORK — Works by artists including Cézanne, Seurat, and van Gogh sold for a record-breaking $1.5 billion during the first part of Christie’s two-day auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s masterpiece-heavy collection. All 60 of the artworks put up for auction Wednesday night in New York […]
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Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNNOscar Holland, CNN Art from the private collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen fetched over $1.5 billion on Wednesday to become the largest single-owner sale in auction history. Works by Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Gustav Klimt all sold […]
The art collection of Paul Allen, the late co-founder of Microsoft, fetched more than $1.5 billion at Christie’s New York on Wednesday night, making it the most valuable single-owner art collection ever to be sold at auction. The auction — the first of two sales of Allen’s art for charity […]
Christie’s auction house said Thursday it would handle the sale of the impressive art collection of Paul Allen, the late co-founder of Microsoft, a collection valued at more than $1 billion that includes masterpieces by Renoir and Roy Lichtenstein. The sale of at least 150 paintings spanning several centuries is […]
TAE Technologies’s Norman device can keep a ring of plasma spinning 100 times longer than its natural lifetime. Next stop fusion? TAE Technologies By Daniel CleryApr. 8, 2021 , 3:00 PM A private company betting on an innovative fusion technology announced today that its latest device can sustain high temperatures […]
Socialite Shafi Roepers has listed the third-floor co-op in Manhattan she bought with her ex-husband, hedge fund founder Alexander Roepers, for a marked down price of $45 million. The five-bedroom, eight-bathroom home at 4 East 66th Street, went on the market in 2015 for $65 million, the New York Post […]
A brand new £430million superyacht that has been constructed for Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has undergone its first trials at sea. Video footage shows the massive 48-cabin ship being delicately tugged out from the Lloyd Werft shipyard in the northern German city of Bremerhaven into the Kaiserhaven basin. A […]
Artificial general intelligence, the idea of an intelligent A.I. agent that’s able to understand and learn any intellectual task that humans can do, has long been a component of science fiction. As A.I. gets smarter and smarter — especially with breakthroughs in machine learning tools that are able to rewrite their code to learn from…