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The transaction illuminates the role individuals can play in rectifying Europe's history of colonial plunder, but it also reveals the inner workings of a system that allows such objects to land in private hands to begin with.
Art
What price can we put on the wonder of childhood?
In Brief
French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi will soon own one of the world's largest auction houses after it spent 31 years on the stock exchange.
In Brief
Dutch researchers concluded that blue and red paintings spark nearly 20% higher bids at auctions in the US, China, and the Netherlands.
Test 2018 posts
This week, Christie's announced that it would pilot blockchain technology to record its fall auction season, but will the digital ledger system solve the market's transparency problems?
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This years’s total sales were nearly half those of last year, which some critics say is a symptom of a bloated market with overly ambitious estimates. Even a Van Gogh painting went unsold this year.
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Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, "renaissance man," artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.
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Dalí's Freudian delusions of love might make you feel better if you're having a lackluster Valentine's Day.
Art
A cup made from a human skull has an inscription that attributes it to Lord Byron, who was known to drink wine from such a vessel.
Art
Christie's is auctioning a rare 1692 deposition from the Salem witch trials that helped sentence an elderly widow to death.
Art
In 1801, British writer and engraver Joseph Strutt published a compendium of bizarre medieval pastimes.
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Engravings by Francisco Agüera Bustamante in The Astounding Life of Death show the bony figure in a variety of roles, from a baby to a king.