Art
The mythology of the Beatles, like all mass phenomena, extends far beyond the primary realm of their music — even the group's most tangential interests and dalliances carry a profound aura of cultural history.
News
The fight to obtain resale royalties for visual artists may be gaining momentum thanks to the newly introduced American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014, but the major auction houses are determined to stop it.
Art
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Ending not with a bang but a whimper, the last bit of legal wrangling in the case that pitted collector Marc Jancou against Cady Noland and Sotheby’s was quietly settled on November 11.
Opinion
Dan Loeb, an activist investor and erstwhile Jeff Koons egg-haver, today fired off an apoplectic screed to Sotheby's on behalf of Third Point LLC, his $14 billion hedge fund.
Art
While staggering auction record peaks were summited this week by some talented human artists, a more amateur representative of an underrepresented artist species is expected to gain some auction attention of his own. Photographs by Mikki the chimpanzee are estimated to fetch between $75,000–100,000
Opinion
The Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed building isn’t all that the American Folk Art Museum is losing as it retreats from its large home in midtown and cedes it to the Museum of Modern Art. It also has to give up over 200 works that were promised to it by collector and museum chairman Ralph Esme
News
From the sheer amount of amazing Chinese pottery discovered at random tag sales, you'd think front yards were just crawling with thousand-year-old vases. Sotheby's just sold a Chinese bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty for $2.2 million. It was originally bought for a meager $3.
News
Damien Hirst’s Spot and Spin series of paintings might look like endless repetitions of the same thing, but, unfortunately for one Miami pastor, it’s still possible to tell a real from a fake. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has indicted Kevin Sutherland on charges of attempted grand larceny
Art
On Election Day, The New York Times featured an above-the-fold story in its Arts section about the fate of fake art as the country was deciding the fate of a fake politician. The article was illustrated by a tiny, smudged color reproduction of, as the caption states, a “disputed Jackson Pollock that
News
The following is the full text of the press release by the Teamsters union regarding the settlement between Sotheby's auction house and the 42 union art handlers.
Art
There is possibly no better place to witness the titans of the art market — the auction houses — duke it out than in New York. But ever wonder what they're all about? Here's a straightforward guide.
News
Today, New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss tonight's Sotheby's auction of Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Saltz isn't a fan of the circus surrounding tonight's sale and he dislikes that the chatter is mostly about the projected price tag and not the art itself.