Auctions Sotheby’s Has Brokered $6.4 Billion in Sales So Far in 2022, Down 7 Percent on Last Year’s Total Stellar single-owner collections and luxury goods help boost the bottom line. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Continues Its Expansion in Asia, With a New Salesroom and Headquarters Opening in Hong Kong in 2024 The auction house will join Christie's and Phillips in opening new headquarters in Hong Kong, signaling a vote of confidence in the city. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 14, 2022
Galleries Hauser and Wirth’s Foray Into Auction Territory Exceeds Expectations, Raising More Than $4 Million for Charity All of the proceeds will benefit the UN's refugee relief programs. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2022
Auctions Possibly the Oldest Pair of Levi’s Jeans, Salvaged From an 1857 Shipwreck, Just Auctioned for a Deep-Pocketed $114,000 What may be the earliest known Levi Strauss pants went for double their estimate at auction. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 12, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Auction of a T. Rex Skull, Expected to Fetch $20 Million, Sold for a Not-So-Kingly $6.1 Million After a marquee year for dinosaur auction sales, enthusiasm may be ebbing. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 9, 2022
Auctions Christie’s and Phillips Are Closing Their Sprawling Outposts in Southampton As recently as August 2022, the auction houses touted their lasting commitment to the enclave. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 9, 2022
NFTs Electronic Musicians Steve Aoki and 3LAU Will Integrate Their CryptoPunks NFTs Into a New ‘Conceptual’ Supergroup The NFT enthusiasts are collaborating on 'conceptual' project inspired by their digital assets. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 9, 2022
Art Collectors ‘I’ve Tended to Run Against the Herd’: Ronald Lauder on How He Built an Eclectic Collection Spanning German Expressionism and Fighter Planes In an interview coinciding with the Neue Galerie's 20th anniversary, Ronald Lauder explains his philosophy and criteria for collecting. By Menachem Wecker, Dec 9, 2022
Galleries A Genre-Defying Brooklyn Gallery Opens With an Exhibition of Masks Spanning 200 Years "B" Dry Goods was launched by a former Boston gallerist who deals in rare-books and music-ephemera. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 8, 2022
Auctions One Year After a DAO Tried and Failed to Buy a Copy of the Constitution, a Second One Will Try Its Luck at Sotheby’s UnumDAO has formed to acquire another first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 8, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Smashed Its Design Sale Record With an Eye-Popping $77 Million Lalanne Auction Most lots sold well above their high estimates, with 18 lots selling for more than $1 million. By Lisa Ferber, Dec 8, 2022
Auctions A Mint-Condition Copy of the 1981 ‘Rolling Stone’ Issue Featuring That Iconic John Lennon and Yoko Ono Cover Goes Up for Auction Annie Leibovitz snapped the image just hours before the tragedy outside Manhattan's Dakota building in 1980. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 7, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s $35 Million Auction of Ron Perelman’s Art Deco and Modernist Design Collection Shatters Expectations The vast majority of the 117 lots sold for two-thirds above their high estimates. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 7, 2022
Auctions New York City Auction Houses Are Offering Tiffany, Lalanne, and Other Delights in Their Winter Interior Design Sales Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams give you good reason to redecorate this month. By Lisa Ferber, Dec 7, 2022
Galleries Gerhard Richter Says Auf Wiedersehen to Marian Goodman, His Dealer of Nearly Four Decades, to Join David Zwirner The German artist had been with Marian Goodman Gallery for 37 years. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 7, 2022
