Auctions The Secret Buyer of the Royal Opera House’s £13 Million David Hockney Is Its Own Board Chair—and He’s Lending It Back David Ross purchased the artwork at Christie’s last month and will now lend it back to the British public. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 20, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Is Selling a Trove of Photos Documenting NASA’s Missions to Outer Space—See the Otherworldly Images Here The sale includes the first space selfie. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 11, 2020
Auctions Two Major Joan Mitchell Paintings Could Fetch a Total of $19 Million at Phillips Next Month The auction house is hoping to cash in on the excitement of a big retrospective of Mitchell's work next year. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 8, 2020
Auctions Cardi B, David Hockney, and Other Creative Stars Made Artworks for an Auction Benefiting the Families of Slain Black Women—See Them Here The auction is organized by the African American Policy Forum. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 30, 2020
Auctions An Autumn Art Walk in the Hudson Valley Gave Lucky Hikers a Chance to See Artists Working in Plein Air Up Close (But Not Too Close) The event included 19 artists and over 200 visitors, and raised nearly $10,000 for two nonprofits. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 29, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Two Evening Sales Bag a Muted $283.9 Million, Fueled by the Scene-Stealing Inclusion of Three Futuristic Alfa Romeos The sale was just as notable for what wasn't in it: the Baltimore Museum of Art withdrew two high-profile consignments at the last minute. By Nate Freeman, Oct 28, 2020
Auctions Amid a Growing Outcry, the Baltimore Museum of Art Withdrew Its Controversial Sale of Three Works Through Sotheby’s at the Eleventh Hour The withdrawal came after a group of former Association of Art Museum Directors presidents condemned the imminent sale. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 28, 2020
Auctions The Museum of Islamic Arts Has Halted a Planned Sotheby’s Sale of Its Treasures After It Was Condemned by Israel’s President Israeli President Reuven Rivlin jumped into the fray after experts questioned the ethics of the auction. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 27, 2020
Auctions Hot Lots: 7 Sought-After Artworks That Utterly Shattered Expectations During the London Auction Extravaganza Even if the evening sales were a bit lackluster, the day sales had a number of record-smashing art-star-making lots. By Nate Freeman, Oct 27, 2020
Auctions Most of Them Melted. But the Two Surviving Puppets From the Holiday Film ‘Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ Could Be Yours for $250,000 A Christmas museum in Ohio has launched a Go Fund Me to try and acquire the rare collectibles. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 23, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Spree of Livestreamed Art Sales in London and Paris Nets a Limp $118 Million as the Market Gets the Jitters Not even the first mixed-reality work to ever be sold at auction, Marina Abramovic's "The Life," could enliven the action. By Nate Freeman, Oct 22, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Livestreamed Paris-to-London Hybrid Sale Pulled in $90 Million, Led by a Picasso and Banksy’s Irreverent Twist on Monet Observers describe it as "painting by numbers" auction action. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 21, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Sell a Nine-Foot-Tall Giacometti Sculpture for at Least $90 Million in an Unusual Sale Where the Bids Are Kept Secret The work reportedly comes from the collection of billionaire Ron Perelman. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 21, 2020
Auctions Works by Young Artists Boosted Phillips’s Solid $34 Million Sale to Kick Off the Fall Auction Season in London The sale failed to deliver on its most expensive lot, a painting by Georg Baselitz. By Naomi Rea, Oct 20, 2020
Auctions A Decade Ago, Supersize Images by German Photographers Were Selling for Millions. Now, Prices Have Fallen Off a Cliff A work by Andreas Gursky sold in 2011 for more than the combined auction sales of every contemporary German photographer in the first half of 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 18, 2020
