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Good evening, and welcome back to Wall Power. I’m
Marion Maneker.

Tonight, I’m looking at what’s happening in Los Angeles from the perspective of artists and art collectors. These last few days have been horrendous to watch from afar; and, while the art is hardly the first priority for anyone, there are some heartbreaking and illuminating stories filtering in from the evacuation zones.

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Did someone just buy a $130 million Basquiat?: The art world is filled with collector-dealers who speculate on the work of a few artists. One of them is John Sayegh-Belchatowski, a French dealer who actively trades in...

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Art in the Apocalypse

Los Angeles is burning. And one theme of the fires, which are
forcing residents to choose between their possessions, is that art is interwoven into our lives. Among the various efforts in the gradual rebuilding, art insurance executives are beginning to grasp the work ahead of them.

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Yesterday, as I listened to my Puck partners Dylan Byers and
Peter Hamby on The Powers That Be, discussing the unreality of the wildfires ripping through Los Angeles, I was struck by a particularly poignant detail. Dylan and Peter, both longtime Angelenos, were trading stories of disbelief, while analyzing the tragic events through the lens of politics and local media, the latter of which is often underappreciated until a disaster reminds us that it is...

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