London loves a spectacle, especially when it comes packaged in rock crystal and 4,500 diamonds. On Tuesday evening, Christie's delivered exactly that — the kind of auction theatre that makes the room hum — when the storied Winter Egg, one of the last Fabergé imperial...
The academic world is occasionally disrupted by someone, somewhere, uploading a photograph to an auction house portal. This time—almost absurdly—a jpg of a foot has stopped the presses. An unsuspecting owner in the American West sent Christie's a pair of inherited...
Sotheby's wrapped its marathon week of New York autumn sales on Thursday night with the kind of back-to-back performance the house likes to wheel out when the market needs a bit of cheer. Three evening auctions, all sold out—"white glove," the house reported—pulled in...
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...
Artist Andres Serrano is no stranger to controversy, with thousands of postings on various social platforms mostly related to his infamous Piss Christ photograph, the artist has rarely been out of the news. In the latest batch of materials released by the House...
Sophie Parkin is pulled into the magical world of seances, spirits and automatic drawing in anticipation of the witching season, Halloween. It's warm for October, for this year's Frieze. However, there's still the usual Eurotrash walking around in dead animals and...
Christie’s had secured a significant consignment from Japan’s Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, which closed its doors in March this year. More than 80 works from the museum’s collection will be sold across the house’s marquee in November sales in New York, with...
For over half a century, Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis built a collection of 20th-century art not for spectacle, but for themselves. Their approach was quiet, deliberate, and deeply personal, resulting in an assembly of works that charts the course of...
To speak of British art's transformation in the 1980s without acknowledging Doris Saatchi is to tell half the story. Born Doris Lockhart in 1937, the Glasgow-raised advertising copywriter would become the less visible but equally formidable half of the Saatchi duo and...