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Doig said it is collectors who are profiting, buying and selling his works on the secondary market for “crazy prices”, and he has no idea who they are because the art trade is so opaque. “It’s all very clandestine,” he told the Observer. “Some paintings are sold offshore, so it’s untraceable.”

The 65-year-old artist estimates that, since 2007, his paintings have achieved combined sales of almost £380m. But he has now revealed that he has made barely £230,000 for himself from selling them.

A group of researchers claim French museums are “bowing” to Chinese to demands to erase minority cultures in exhibition texts, according to an op-ed in Le Monde. Examples include removing the name “Tibet,” from the Musée du Quai Branly’s catalog, and replacing it with “Xizang Autonomous Region.” [Le Monde]

A heritage foundation in Chile has denounced the destruction of ancient Alto Barranco geoglyphs in the country’s northern region, by motorcyclists and 4x4 vehicles. Images show wheel tracks have erased the stunning pre-Hispanic geometric and zoomorphic figures marking the hills of the Atacama Desert. [El Pais]

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