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  • From the Court to the Auction Room: The NBA Figures Behind Tomorrow Night's Most Anticipated Art Event in Chicago

    Swain's inaugural live auction brings together museum-collected artists, three works already sold, and a wine sponsor with a parallel story: McCollum Heritage 91, built by NBA All-Star CJ McCollum on 318 Oregon acres as a generational legacy. Swain's co-founder David Vanterpool, NBA assistant coach, is building one too—just in a different market.
    CHICAGO, April 9, 2026 — Tomorrow evening at Cit

  • He Saw a Broken Market. He Built the Fix. Now He's Opening an Auction House.

    Ian Swain, founder of Swain’s, used conversational AI and no-code tools to build
    six operational AI systems and the largest structured database of African
    diaspora art market data in existence. His inaugural live auction opens Friday at
    EXPO CHICAGO.
    WASHINGTON, DC, April 8, 2026 — Ian Swain is not a software engineer. He is a collector who
    learned early—from a mentor who told him a

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