MAGAZINE RACK
by Grant Mandarino

It’s an Andy Warhol moment in art-magazine-land this month. The Tate’s "Pop Life" exhibition started it, and Sotheby’s sale of his 1962 painting of dollar bills for $43.7 million hammered it home. Warhol is omnipresent, and next to impossible to top.

And according to ARTnews, Warholmania is big business. "Warhol is probably the biggest market in contemporary art, dollar-wise and volume-wise," Sotheby’s expert Alex Rotter told ARTnews staff writer Eileen Kinsella. Warhol’s works are especially popular with the Asian and Russian nouveau riche who helped inflate the art bubble of 2005-08.

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