Art Industry News: People Are Offering Wads of Cash to Buy Virgil Abloh-Designed Sneakers Right Off Brooklyn Museum Guards' Feet + Other Stories | Artnet News

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People are offering wads of cash to buy Virgil Abloh-designed sneakers right off Brooklyn Museum guards' feet + more art industry news:

The VIP opening of"Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech" at the Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Matthew Carasella

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Thursday, July 7.Collector Stephanie Clegg is in a standoff with Sotheby’s after she sought to resell what she thought was a Marc Chagall painting she had bought at the auction house in 1994 for $90,000. Sotheby’s advised her to send the work to Paris to be authenticated—but, to her surprise, the panel deemed it a fake.

On the occasion of a trio of shows at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Salts Mill, Saltaire; and at the Holburne Museum, in Bath, Hockney tells theThe Gift Shop at the Brooklyn Museum Is New York’s Hottest Store – The longest line at the Brooklyn Museum these days is not to enter the highly anticipated exhibition “Figures of Speech,” a retrospective of designer Virgil Abloh. It’s to enter the show’s gift shop. But some visitors skipped the line entirely and tried to convince the museum guards to offload their own sneakers, which were designed by Abloh as part of a custom security uniform. One man offered a guard $2,000 in cash on the spot.

 

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