A controversial New York City socialite who once showed up to family court in a bulletproof vest for fear her billionaire ex-husband sent a Russian hitwoman to kill her, is suing a pair of art ...

Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 work Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari sold for $12.6 million at a Phillips modern and contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong this week.

The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction on 20 November features a selection of iconic works that have both reflected and defined American cultural life over recent decades.

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