Artnet News – This power year in the art world peaked with Christie’s historic showstopper auction, as Leonardo da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million to a mysterious buyer, who has since turned out (after some confusion) to be the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, which acquired it for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere, the year saw a growing (and certainly, long overdue) interest from American museums in Aboriginal, Asian, and Native American art, with museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others seeking to bolster their collections’ diversity, some for the first time. – read more
