News
The artworks, which include significant pieces by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Francesco Botticini, are estimated to accrue $2.3 million to $3.5 million in total at Christie’s today, October 15.
News
Eclipsing its projected price tag of $8 million, a T. rex named Stan sold for a whopping $31,847,500.
Art
Experts have criticized auction house practices that prioritize dropping the hammer on sales rather than on looters or art smugglers.
Opinion
While conversations about historic monuments ignite public debate, a small sculpture which was likely looted heads to auction at Christie’s Paris.
News
Adapting scanners used to analyze the Mona Lisa, a Canadian tech company is entering the art market with a crucial blockchain partnership.
Art
In 1967, Geraldine Norman was tasked with leading an editorial collaboration between the London Times and Sotheby’s. The project galvanized the conceptualization of art as an investment asset.
In Brief
After several appeals, the country's highest court agreed that auction houses may ask buyers to pay a levy — a decision critics say will “disrupt competition” and damage the art market.
Art
A recently discovered work by a long-overlooked Baroque painter didn't attract the interest that Christie’s prestigious Old Masters auction seemed to expect.
Opinion
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?
News
Critics call the recent sale, which shattered previous world records for Assyrian art sales, a callous example of the art market profiting from suffering in the Middle East. Experts speculate that ISIS's destruction of cultural heritage sites may have boosted the value of the work.
News
Before the auction, Christie's refused journalists' requests for comment on the questionable attribution of the AI-generated artwork. Now, the code's original creator, a 19-year-old working at Stanford, has publicly voiced concerns that the tech group misrepresented their moneymaking intentions.
News
Centuries before Wester Europe coined the term, "renaissance man," artist Su Shi moonlighted as a pharmacologist, gastronome, and statesman for the Song Dynasty.