The limited-edition collaboration between the auction house and streetwear site Highsnobiety brands t-shirts and hoodies with Old Master paintings from Sotheby’s upcoming Masters Week 2020.
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Brooklyn Museum Is Trying to Sell a Francis Bacon Painting the Artist Wanted Destroyed
During his lifetime, Bacon wrote the museum that “It was a throw-out and it depresses me […] that it has years later found its way onto the art market and I would prefer if it were not exhibited.”
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KAWS Artwork of Chairman Mao Triggers Massive Outcry in China
After former KAWS fans burned their merch, the artwork, which was slated to go to auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on October 7, was taken down from the auction house’s website.
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The Museum Wall That Broke the Art Handler’s Back
Over the summer, Hyperallergic interviewed dozens of art handlers about the variable conditions of their workplaces. This week, we are bringing their stories of accident and injury into the light.
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Family Realizes Portrait of Their Mother Is by Influential Nigerian Modernist
“Christine,” a portrait of an American hairstylist named Christine Elizabeth Davis, was painted in 1971 by Ben Enwonwu, one of Africa’s most influential 20th-century artists.
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Sotheby’s Auction House Goes Private After $3.7 Billion Sale
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.
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“Your Money Is Safe in Art”: How the Times-Sotheby Index Transformed the Art Market
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.
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What Happened When a Long-Lost Michelina Wautier Painting Failed to Sell at Christie’s
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.
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New Video Indicates Banksy’s Sotheby’s Shredding Didn’t Go According to Plan
Banksy II: Electric Boogaloo: “In rehearsals it worked every time.”
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An Upcoming Sotheby’s Auction Replaces Banksy Hijinks with Gold, Gold, Gold
The auction house’s upcoming October sale seems to have taken an aesthetic hint from President Donald Trump’s interior decorator.
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Collector Moves Forward with $1.3M Shredded Banksy, Artist Renames Work
The buyer, an anonymous European woman, will continue with the $1.3 million purchase after Banksy’s highly publicized stunt, calling it her “own piece of art history.”
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Was Banksy’s Recent Stunt a Hoax?
Skeptics have offered their own theories about the controversy, some denying it was even shredded at all.