It’s actually surprising it still shared these stats internally more than a year after hitting public markets.

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At 3 a.m. on Oct. 9, 2013,the 24-year-old conceptual artist Amalia Ulman woke up in a hospital in rural Pennsylvania with a bone sticking out of her leg. She had been in an accident: The Greyhound bus that was taking her from New York to Chicago to curate a show had smashed into a garbage rig, killing one passenger and wounding dozens of others. She needed surgery. She also needed a lawyer. Ulman knew that her parents, who lived in northern Spain, would be of no help. “Who do I know in the States who’s not a kid on heroin?” she asked herself. After a moment’s thought, Ulman instructed her nurses to contact a man she had met only once: Stefan Simchowitz, the controversial 44-year-old movie producer, Internet entrepreneur and industrial scion who over the last seven years has pursued a manic quest to assemble the world’s most lucrative collection of emerging contemporary art.

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