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\n\tBRIGHT SIDE OF THE ART MARKET.\u00a0Artsy\u2019s\u00a0Maxwell Raab\u00a0has also\u00a0weighed in<\/a>\u00a0on the \u201cart market cool-off.\u201d Unlike many writers, Raab is looking on the bright side. He argues that the current discussions about gallery closures and the market\u2019s struggles \u201cmay be less about decline than about how those in the art world choose to look forward.\u201d \u201cLike the industry at large, the U.S. market is in a recognized\u00a0downturn\u00a0. Top-level auction and dealer sales have declined for consecutive years, as pockets of collector demand have cooled: \u2018Some people who bought 200 works a year now buy 40,\u2019\u201d\u00a0CLEARING\u2019s\u00a0Babin\u00a0said. \u201cThat\u2019s an 80 percent drop, but it\u2019s still substantial. There was a lot of fluff.\u201d Still, Raab writes, \u201creality is more nuanced.\u201d \u201cThe art world has an enormous capacity for reinvention,\u201d\u00a0ADAA\u00a0director\u00a0Kinsay Robb\u00a0said. \u201cWe\u2019re all creative. We\u2019re representing creatives. We\u2019re creative in our own ways. This is an opportunity for some exciting change to take shape.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tThe Digest\t<\/p>\n \n\tSotheby\u2019s has secured the collection of Chicago patron\u00a0Cindy Pritzker, highlighted by a Vincent van Gogh, while Christie\u2019s won the even larger estate of\u00a0Patricia and Robert Weis, which includes works by Rothko, Mondrian, Picasso, and Matisse, reports Katya Kazakina. [Artnet News<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tPeople Inc.\u00a0announced Friday that it has sold the monumental sculpture titled\u00a0Plantoir, by\u00a0Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, which adorned the company\u2019s campus, but said it was not at liberty to disclose where the artwork will go, or the price paid. [Des Moines Register<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tA cow\u2019s tooth buried alongside\u00a0Stonehenge\u00a0has thrown light on how the ancient stone circle in Wiltshire, UK was formed. [The Art Newspaper<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tARTnews\u00a0Top 200 Collector\u00a0Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza\u00a0and\u00a0Stella Rollig, the director of the\u00a0Galerie Belvedere, have been awarded state orders by Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u00a0for their contribution to the traveling exhibition \u201cIn the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900\u20131930s.\u201d [NAMU<\/a>]<\/p>\n \n\tIn finally opening the\u00a0Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian government is making changes to enhance the visitor experience around the pyramids, but local vendors and tour guides say the modifications threaten the livelihoods of neaby communities rooted in generations-old tourism practices. [Smithsonian Magazine<\/a>]<\/p>\n \t\tThe Kicker\t<\/p>\n