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Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house. Founded in 1793, it is one of the world's largest and most renowned auctioneers of fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery.

Since its founding in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers with its audiences. A museum at the intersection of contemporary art and civic life, the ICA has advanced a bold vision for amplifying the artist’s voice and augmenting art’s role as educator, incubator, and convener for social engagement. Its innovative exhibitions, performances, and educational programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. Spanning two locations across Boston Harbor, the ICA offers year-round programming at its iconic building in Boston’s Seaport and seasonal programming (May–September) at the Watershed in an East Boston shipyard.

For more than fifteen years, Sfeir-Semler Gallery has been a key figure in art production in the Arab World, nurturing a unique cross-cultural link between Western and Middle Eastern contemporary art practices. Since 1985, Sfeir-Semler Gallery has created a diverse program of international minimalist and conceptual art. In the early 2000s, the gallery became one of the pioneers to link the Middle East and the Western art scenes, founding the first contemporary white cube space in the region. It has taken on an integral role in developing the careers of major international artists from the region launching pioneer solo exhibitions, gaining global exposure through participation in international biennials and shows in public institutions, and facilitating acquisitions by notable museums around the world, simultaneously encouraging young emerging artists to expand the gallery’s program and continue its history of innovation. The gallery continues to work to bring its artists and their work to a global audience, participating in major art fairs around the world and collaborating internationally to realise complex and ambitious exhibition projects.