Auctions A New York Lawmaker Has Proposed a Bill to Increase Taxes on Auction Sales to Fund Public Art Education The high-end art market might be coming under increased scrutiny as budgets tighten. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 15, 2021
Auctions ‘This Is Going to Be a Billion-Dollar Piece Someday’: The Buyer of the $69 Million Beeple NFT on Why It’s the Greatest Artwork in a Generation Singapore-based NFT collectors Metakovan and Twobadour want to build "a massive monument" to their new work. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 12, 2021
Auctions An NFT Artwork by Beeple Just Sold for an Unbelievable $69 Million at Christie’s—Making Him the Third Most Expensive Living Artist at Auction The event marks the auction house's first-ever NFT sale. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2021
Auctions An Ultra-Rare Satirical Cookbook Created by a Young Andy Warhol to Poke Fun at Haute Cuisine Is Hitting the Auction Block The cookbook features calligraphy by the Pop art great's mother. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 9, 2021
Auctions Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Auctioning Off the World’s First-Ever Tweet as an NFT—and the High Bid Is Already $2.5 Million The tech world is in thrall to NFTs. By Brian Boucher, Mar 9, 2021
Auctions Signaling an Enduring Appetite for Young Art, Phillips’s ‘New Now’ Sale Brings in a Record $9.5 Million The sale also saw 20 new artist auction records set. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 4, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Sale of Man Ray Works Was a Smashing Success—But the Artist’s Trust Says the $7.1 Million Auction Never Should Have Happened Contested ownership claims failed to dampen collector interest in the auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 3, 2021
Auctions Winston Churchill Made a Painting and Gave It to FDR. Then Angelina Jolie Got It. She Just Sold It for $11.6 Million at Christie’s The top lot of the sale set a new auction record for a work by the wartime prime minister. By Naomi Rea, Mar 2, 2021
Auctions A Bargain Hunter Picked Up This Small Ceramic Bowl for $35 at a Junk Sale. Now, It Could Sell for Up to $500,000 at Sotheby’s As it turns out, it's an exceedingly rare example of Ming Dynasty porcelain. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 26, 2021
Auctions Treasures From the Blue-Chip Art Collection of Texas Oil Heiress Anne Marion Could Fetch $150 Million at Sotheby’s The late billionaire assembled a collection of 20th-century American masterworks that has rarely been seen in public. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions A Vincent van Gogh Landscape Never Before Seen in Public Could Fetch Nearly $10 Million at Auction Next Month The painting has been housed in the private collection of a French family for more than a century. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions In the Latest NFT Auction Frenzy, an Artist Just Sold a Collection of Digital Furniture for $450,000—See Images of the Otherworldly Designs Here The auction sold out in less than 10 minutes. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 23, 2021
Auctions Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000 The price was 300 in Ethereum. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions Paintings of King Charles Spaniels and Other Treasures From the Estate of John McCain’s Late Mother Sold for Nearly $100,000 at Auction Roberta McCain, who died at age 108 last year, was an avid collector of objects both expensive and cheap. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions A $9.8 Million Auction of Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Their Artist Friends More Than Doubled Its Estimate at Sotheby’s Paris The auction offered an eclectic mix of work by the artists and those in their inner circle. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 18, 2021
