Auctions A $28 Million T-Rex Skeleton Was the Undisputed King of Christie’s Otherwise Muted $341 Million Contemporary Art Auction Christie's added a fair amount of theater to the hybrid event, including live commentary by two of its specialists. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 6, 2020
Auctions Mega-Collector Ronald Perelman’s $28 Million Gerhard Richter Carried Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction in Hong Kong A museum in Japan snapped up the Richter work during the $88 million auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 6, 2020
Auctions How Are Auction Houses Retooling for Fall’s Major Virtual Sales? Here Are 8 Lessons They Learned This Summer Experts from the Big Three houses explain their takeaways from this summer's online-only mega-sales—and what they mean for the fall editions. By Artnet News, Oct 4, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s $4.6 Million Sale of Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection Tripled Expectations and Drew in Droves of New Buyers The proceeds from the sale will benefit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 2, 2020
Auctions A Met Trustee Is Selling One of the Last Rembrandt Biblical Scenes in Private Hands at Sotheby’s for as Much as $30 Million 'Abraham and the Angels' was the centerpiece of a 2017 Frick Collection show. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 29, 2020
Auctions Will This Rare Botticelli Portrait Reset the Old Masters Market? A Renaissance ‘Golden Boy’ Could Fetch $80 Million Sotheby's is offering a rare Botticelli portrait with an extensive museum exhibition history and an $80 million estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2020
Auctions ‘Business as Usual Went Right Out the Window’: How Lockdown Forced Auction Houses Into the Future—for Good Despite suffering a nosedive in revenue, here’s how the biggest auction houses in the world are evolving to survive. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2020
Auctions A Hedge-Fund Manager Who Once Tried to Acquire Sotheby’s Has Just Bought His Way Into a Top Job at the Auction House The increasing financialization of the art market makes Klabin a solid fit for Sotheby's. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Hopes Banksy’s Painting About the ‘Excesses of Consumerism’ Will Generate $6 Million in Excess Consumerism at Auction Banksy's 'Show Me the Monet' will appear at a virtual Modern and contemporary art auction in Paris and London next month. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 18, 2020
Auctions In an Unprecedented Move, the Brooklyn Museum Is Selling Off Works by Cranach, Courbet, and Other Artists to Ease Its Financial Woes The museum is taking advantage of new emergency regulations from the Association of Museum Directors. By Artnet News, Sep 16, 2020
Auctions The Plastic Crown Worn by the Notorious BIG for a Photo Taken Days Before Death Sold for $600,000 at Sotheby’s First Hip-Hop Sale Other highlights from the sale included Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It” jackets, Slick Rick’s diamond eye patch, and high school love letters written by Tupac Shakur. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 16, 2020
Auctions The King of the New York Auctions This Fall Isn’t Picasso or Pollock. It’s a T. Rex Named Stan—and His $8 Million Skeleton The skeleton is expected to bring in as much as $8 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 16, 2020
Auctions A New York Museum Is Selling Its Only Jackson Pollock Painting at Christie’s to Fund Acquisitions of Work by Women and Artists of Color The painting is consigned by the Everson Museum in Syracuse. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 3, 2020
Auctions Rachel Whiteread and 13 Other Art Stars Are Selling Work Made From the Scorched Fields of Iraq to Benefit Refugees The ashes were smuggled out of Iraq by charity workers. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 3, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Will Mount Two Major Sales to Auction Off the Estate of the Late Spanish-Language TV Tycoon Jerry Perenchio Perenchio was also a major donor to LACMA. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 27, 2020
