Tag: Auctions

Paul G. Allen’s Art at Christie’s Tops $1.5 Billion, Cracking Records

Just when it seemed the high-flying art market couldn’t soar any higher,…

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Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House

Do this right and you can even make a profit. As the…

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Spring Auction Sales for Two Blockbuster Weeks Top $2.5 Billion

Last year, global auction sales of paintings by artists under 40 soared…

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The Macklowe Collection Tops $922 Million at Auction

Blue-chip treasures from one of Manhattan’s most acrimonious billionaire divorces on Monday…

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Artists of Color and Women Soar at Christie’s ‘21st Century’ Sale

While the usual suspects continue to command the highest prices at auction…

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New York City Eliminates the Rules That Govern Art and Other Auctions

New York City has eliminated the regulations it had tailored to govern…

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Basquiat Show Curated by His Sisters Offers Intimate Look at the Artist

In a grainy home movie from 1968 — well before he had…

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Christie’s to Sell Entire Ammann Art Collection

Just two weeks after announcing that it would sell an important 1964…

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The NFT Has Changed Artists. Has it Changed Art?

And then there’s the even more slippery genre known as “relational art,”…

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