Auctions Top Auction Houses Saw Total Sales Drop in 2020—But Sotheby’s Outpaced Rival Christie’s With $5 Billion in Revenue Private sales, online sales, and demand from Asia are driving growth. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 18, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling Off the Collection of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Including Cookie Jars Once Owned by Andy Warhol The cookie jars used to sit on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's refrigerator. By Brian Boucher, Dec 17, 2020
Auctions Hot Lots: These 7 Artists Emerged as Market Sensations During This Year’s Star-Making Auction Day Sales Alex Gardner, Salman Toor, Christina Quarles, and other artists drastically outperformed expectations. By Nate Freeman, Dec 14, 2020
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2020—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did Plus, who bought and sold them (when we could figure it out). By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2020
Auctions Led by Neiman Marcus’s Estimate-Smashing Calder Mobile, Sotheby’s Latest Hybrid Evening Sale Pulled in $63.4 Million Sotheby's final livestreamed auction of the year brought in a respectable total—although last-minute withdrawals offered a skewed picture. By Nate Freeman, Dec 8, 2020
Auctions Phillips’s Robust $135 Million New York Auction Sets Records for a Half-Dozen Black Artists, Rising Stars and Midcareer Figures Alike Records were shattered for Amy Sherald, Vaughn Spann, Mickalene Thomas, and others. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 7, 2020
Auctions Going Once! 11 World-Class Auctioneers Tell Us the Stories and Strange Rituals Behind Their Luckiest Gavels Auctioneers are a superstitious bunch. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 3, 2020
Auctions Phillips’s First Joint Sale With Poly Auction in Hong Kong Reaped a Solid $50 Million and Set a Flurry of Records for Up-and-Coming Artists New records were set for Lucas Arruda, Bernard Frize, Salman Toor, and Matthew Wong. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 3, 2020
Auctions Buoyed by Demand for Young Stars, Christie’s Hybrid New York and Hong Kong Auction Fetched a Healthy $119 Million New records were set for Amoako Boafo, Shara Hughes, and Dana Schutz, among others. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 2, 2020
Auctions Bidders at the Big Three Auction Houses Are Overwhelmingly Male. Why? Women May Have a Different Sense of Art’s Value Interviews with those in the trade suggest that women collectors are more interested in creating value than buying trophies. By Julia Halperin & Tim Schneider, Dec 1, 2020
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
