Hu Xianmin is in the midst of carving the scenes of a famous oil painting onto a piece of teakwood the length of a snooker cue. The painting, titled Yu Gong Yi Shan, or "the foolish man who moved ...
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It might seem surprising which item fetched five times more than the highest estimated price at this week’s A.B. Levy’s pre-season auction on Worth Avenue and took the crown as the most expensive ...