Sotheby's eased into its new headquarters with its first evening sales at the former Whitney Museum, designed by Marcel Breuer. The hulking granite temple on Madison Avenue hauled in $605.1m, or $706m once fees were folded in, on Tuesday night (18 November). That put...
New York: There’s something almost poetic about seeing the Breuer alive again — that hulking, cantilevered block of brutalist calm at 945 Madison Avenue. After years of rotating custodians — the Whitney, the Met Breuer, then the Frick — the building now enters a new...
The iconic 1966 brutalist building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, designed by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer will be the new home of auctioneers Sotheby's. The building was initially created for the Whitney Museum of American Art and was the home of the Whitney...
Sotheby's reported consolidated sales of $7.1 billion, an 18% increase on 2024. The company achieved revenue of $1.4 billion, a 21% increase versus 2024. The house’s inaugural season at its new Breuer Building headquarters, during which the house broke the...
Heavyweight paintings by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff drawn from the formidable Lewis Collection will headline Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London this March. It is the first time works from the collection have been formally...
When Maurizio Cattelan unveiled America in 2016—a fully functioning toilet cast from more than 100 kilograms of 18-karat gold—it was never meant to be subtle. The work glowed with provocation, a mirror to both excess and aspiration. This November, the infamous...
Sotheby’s will stage one of its most ambitious autumn seasons in living memory, as two of the most prominent collecting families of the past century—Chicago’s Jay and Cindy Pritzker and New York’s Leonard Lauder—send major works to auction. Together, their...
The Royal Academy will stage the most comprehensive exhibition of Kerry James Marshall ever seen in Europe. Opening on 20 September 2025, Kerry James Marshall: The Histories marks the artist’s 70th birthday and will bring together more than seventy works spanning four...
In 2020, the beloved Frick temporarily relocated to the former Whitney Museum's Brutalist Breuer building. Five years later, the museum has re-opened with a glorious 220 million dollar renovation of the original Gilded Age mansion. The Frick, once the sumptuous Fifth...