New York’s attraction for the art world has no comparison anywhere in the world. The Western capital of art since the 1950s, the Big Apple remains a major magnet for all things cultural (it is home to approximately 100,000 artists), with museum programming sometimes as daring and forward-looking as that proposed by its art galleries.

Richard Taittinger strategically inaugurated his first exhibition during the Armory Show, presenting the Chinese artist DING Yi whose best works fetch between $500,000 and $2 million in Beijing and Hong Kong auction rooms. He was relatively unknown in New York…

 

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