Auctions Diddy Revealed as the Buyer of Kerry James Marshall’s Record-Breaking $21 Million Painting The hip-hop producer and rapper placed the winning bid at Sotheby's on Tuesday. By Henri Neuendorf, May 18, 2018
Auctions Anchored by Blue-Chip Mainstays, Christie’s Contemporary Sale Delivers a Whopping $397 Million—But Falls Short of Last Year Francis Bacon led the pack with his portrait of former lover George Dyer, which sold for $44 million. By Eileen Kinsella, May 17, 2018
Auctions Phillips’s Contemporary Sale Takes in a Respectable $132 Million, Despite Big-Ticket Stumbles From German Artists The sale set world auction records for Robert Motherwell, Pat Steir, and Cory Arcangel. By Henri Neuendorf, May 17, 2018
Auctions Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Takes $391 Million, Highlighted by Basquiat, Hockney, and an ‘Epic’ Kerry James Marshall Marshall now definitively joins the first order of contemporary art market stars. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, May 16, 2018
Auctions Activists Gather for a Gloomy Vigil Outside of Sotheby’s to Protest First Sale of Berkshire Museum Works "It's divided the community, and this whole thing could have been avoided," said group representative Hope Davis. By Caroline Goldstein, May 15, 2018
Auctions Led by a $157 Million Modigliani, Sotheby’s Otherwise Tepid Impressionist Sale Makes $318 Million The much-anticipated Modigliani became the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction—even if the rest of the sale felt sleepy. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2018
Auctions Rockefeller Decoded: Christie’s Marathon of Sales Generated $832 Million—and Some Big Surprises, Too A striking number of works on offer sold for more than five times their high estimates. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2018
Auctions Sold for $115 Million, David Rockefeller’s Picasso Will Go on View at the Musee d’Orsay The work will go on view in Paris in September. By Henri Neuendorf, May 14, 2018
Auctions From Chinese Trophy to Movie Star: 5 Reasons Why Modigliani May Actually Earn His $150 Million Price Tag Examining the forces behind the artist's rise to global fame. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2018
Auctions Ahead of a Marathon Auction Week, Data Shows Skyrocketing Valuations and Changing Tastes at the Market’s Peak Three data-driven takeaways from pre-sale figures for the major May auction cycle, dating from 2000 to 2018. By Tim Schneider, May 13, 2018
Auctions An Insider’s Guide to the Biggest Lots in New York’s $1.5 Billion Spring Art Auction Week From that Modigliani estimated at $150 million to Jeff Koons's monumental pile of play-doh, here is what to watch out for. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2018
Auctions Rockefeller Mania Continues at Christie’s With a Record $106 Million American Art Sale The fireworks may not have matched yesterday evening, but the sale set several records and a new high mark for American art. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2018
Auctions The Art of Storytelling (and Marketing): How Christie’s Tailored the Rockefeller Narrative to Different Audiences Around the World Working with the Rockefeller Archive Center, Christie's teased out a series of tales to give the Rockefeller collection maximum resonance the world over. By Tim Schneider, May 9, 2018
Auctions The Rockefeller Name Proves Mighty Indeed at Christie’s Record $646 Million Sale of Storied Masterpieces The sale set seven new records and is the highest-grossing single-owner auction to date. By Eileen Kinsella, May 8, 2018
Auctions 10 Eccentric Rich-Person Objects in Christie’s Rockefeller Sale That We Actually Want to Buy From duck decoys to porcelain plates, the highly anticipated Rockefeller sale has all the tchotchkes you never new you needed. By Artnet News, May 7, 2018
