Art Market Watch CHRISTIE’S CONTEMPORARY DOES A RECORD $388 MILLIONOn auctioneer Christopher Burge’s last night at the podium, a historic sale with at least eleven new public sale information. Art Market Watch WERNER MUENSTERBERGER AND AFRICAN ART AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK by Jessica MizrachiAfrican art from the collection of art scholar Werner Muensterberger, who theorized that collecting was an Oedipal ardour. Metropolitan Museum director Thomas Campbell unveils a powerful fall and winter schedule, and responds to new claims of looted antiquities within the collection. News of Uli Sigg’s main donation to a Hong Kong museum spurs forecasts of an Asianized…
