News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- Over 5,000 guests attended a party hosted by the Dallas Museum of Art last Thursday to celebrate Frida Kahlo’s 110th birthday. More than 1,000 of them came dressed as the beloved Mexican artist, who died in 1954. The occasion may make the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest-ever gathering of people dressed as Kahlo. [Read more from Artnet News]
- Precious gems valued at more than $3.8 million were stolen from a Swiss dealer set up at an exclusive London art fair. Detectives are baffled as to how it could have happened, since the venue was swarming with round-the-clock security guards. [Read more from The Telegraph]
- A collection of rare James Bond-style gadgets used by British spies during WWII is headed to auction. Among the items are a smoking pipe with a detachable mouthpiece that serves as a lethal steel dagger, and a pencil whose “lead” is actually a thin removable blade. [Read more from the Daily Mail]
- The elegant Georgian-style Manhattan townhouse owned and enjoyed for almost 70 years by the late David Rockefeller – John D. Rockefeller’s grandson – is on the market. The price? Hold onto your hats. [Read more at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com]
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