The sale of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue to a private collector, by the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery and Abington Park Museum has breached Arts Council England's accredited standards for how museums manage their collections. ACE have now removed the...
Tracey Emin’s Turner prize nominated 'My Bed', which recently sold at Christie's for £2.5m, a record for the artist, will return to the UK after a long-term loan to Tate is finalised. Full details will be announced in the autumn. Count Duerckheim the...
Francis Bacon's single head study of the artist Lucian Freud painted in1961 from the private collection of the celebrated writer Roald Dahl and the Dahl family is to go under the hammer at Christie's . The canvas measuring fourteen inches by twelve will be...
Unmade bed, Tracey Emin's iconic Turner Prize nominated work, goes under the hammer at Christie's London, in July. The installation has been consigned by Charles Saatchi who is selling the work to raise money for his Gallery in Chelsea. The sculpture is expected to...
More than four hundred of the world’s most distinguished collectors, curators, gallerists and dignitaries gathered this evening to honour four exceptional contemporary artists at the Asia Society’s second annual Art Gala, hosted by Dr. Melissa Chiu at...
Auctionata is a traditional auction house which operates exclusively on the internet. They use technology to broadcast live auctions around the globe. It is one of the first enterprises to conduct traditional and authentic auctions online. The first company to use...
One of the most interesting exhibitions this spring will be presented at Christie's in London. Polke/Richter-Richter/Polke, celebrates two giants of painting: Gerhard Richter (b.1932) and Sigmar Polke (1941-2010). The show brings together 65 works from 30 collections...
Dan Loeb, the American hedge fund manager and chief executive of Third Point LLC, a New York-based hedge fund with a portfolio worth $14 billion has sued the directors of auction house Sotheby's in order to force the removal of 'poison pill protections' that prevent...
All eyes were on London last week as the city witnessed an unprecedented series of auctions led by Sotheby’s and Christie's. Sotheby's two-days of Impressionist, Modern & Surrealist Art sales, brought a total of £215.8 million, the highest achieved for...