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NEWS ABOUT: Bonhams Auctions

Bonhams Auctions stories: 2 news summaries

 Auction Houses 
 Counting on 
 Russians 

Buyers prop up industry staggering from economic crunch

Nov 30, 08 1:28 PM CST
(Newser) - With dwindling sales and empty showrooms, art auction houses are increasingly relying on what they have dubbed RR: rich Russians. Houses are hoping the record price drawn by a Kasimir Malevich painting earlier this month is proof that the Russian market will escape the downturn that's affecting other sectors. Of... More »

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Russia • contemporary art • Moscow • art • Sotheby's • Christie's • modern art • Bonhams Auctions • art auction

Meteorite Hunter Gets His Due

He finds fame, maybe fortune, by digging through dust

Oct 27, 07 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - He’s not exactly Indiana Jones, but Steve Arnold does have fame, wild adventures, and an 18-foot-wide metal detector. Arnold, a meteorite hunter, has combed the deserts of Chile, the tundras of Siberia, and the streets of Chicago looking for the extraterrestrial lumps of metal, the LA Times reports.... More »

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Chicago • Oman • Chile • Kansas • South America • farmer • Bonhams Auctions • meteorites • Steve Arnold • Sahara • Houston Museum of Natural Science

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