Auctions Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum’s Deaccession Sales at Sotheby’s Fall Short of Expectations Norman Rockwell hits its mark, but a $5 million Frederic Church fails to sell. By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, May 23, 2018
Auctions Bonhams Auction House May Be Up for Sale (Again) The auction house previously explored a sale in 2014, but ultimately decided against it. By Henri Neuendorf, May 21, 2018
Auctions Pierce Brosnan Is ‘Deeply Proud’ That His Painting of Bob Dylan Sold for $1.4 Million at a Charity Auction The actor first took up painting in 1987, but now his hobby has "gotten more serious." By Sarah Cascone, May 21, 2018
Auctions 12 Crucial Takeaways From Last Week’s $1.9 Billion New York Auction Cycle From the biggest flop to the best buy, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Artnet News, May 21, 2018
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
