Auctions French Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi Has Acquired Sotheby’s for $3.7 Billion, Taking the Publicly Traded Auction House Private Sotheby's will no longer trade on the New York Stock Exchange. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 17, 2019
Art Fairs Price Check! Here’s What Sold—And for How Much—at the 2019 Edition of Art Basel Here's what art dealers say they sold at the swanky Swiss fair (though watch out for number-fudging and other kinds of general sneakiness). By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 17, 2019
Auctions Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ and an Offbeat Modigliani Will Lead Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Auctions in London This Month The auction house is following up its record-setting $111 million Monet last month. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 7, 2019
Auctions Here’s What to Expect at the $1.3 Billion Spring Auctions in New York, From a $58 Million Koons to a Once-Lost Cézanne All the highlights from the Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art auctions in New York next week. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2019
Art Fairs Price Check! Here’s What Sold—And For How Much—at Frieze New York 2019 Here's what art dealers say they sold at the New York fair (though watch out for number-fudging and other kinds of general sneakiness). By Caroline Goldstein, May 6, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Veteran David Norman, Who Helped Sell the First Work of Art to Break $100 Million at Auction, Joins Phillips Norman led Sotheby's record-setting $104 million sale of a work by Picasso in 2004. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 29, 2019
Galleries Superstar Artist Takashi Murakami Just Split With Blum & Poe, His Longtime Gallery That Made Him Famous. Why? Experts have various theories about what caused the breakup. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 23, 2019
Opinion A Very Special Easter Poem From Kenny Schachter and Jeff Koons’s Inflatable Bunny It turns out the iconic artwork has a lot on its mind—and can rap, too. By Kenny Schachter, Apr 22, 2019
Galleries David Zwirner Will Represent the Family of Artist Paul Klee, Who Have Never Before Worked With a Gallery The gallery is planning solo presentations at TEFAF New York and in Chelsea. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 19, 2019
Art Fairs As Argentina’s Economy Falters, Museums Come to the Rescue, Snapping Up Works at arteBA South American dealers say art offers a form of refuge in volatile times. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2019
Auctions Now at Bonhams, the Marketing Guru Behind ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Applying His Genius to Selling (Much) Cheaper Art Marc Sands says there's a lot of work to be done to attract buyers spending south of $1 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Was Hoping This KAWS Painting of ‘The Simpsons’ Would Sell for $1 Million. It Just Went for $14.7 Million The painting was sold by Japanese designer NIGO, who commissioned the work in 2005. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 1, 2019
Auctions A Late Tang Dynasty Sculpture Bought at a Missouri Garage Sale for Less Than $100 Just Sold for $2.1 Million The owner first suspected the bronze deity might be worth more than she paid for after taking it on the 'Antiques Roadshow.' By Sarah Cascone, Mar 22, 2019
People Liu Ye, a Chinese Artist Whose Paintings of Children Reference Western Art History, Will Now Be Represented by David Zwirner The gallery will show the painter's work at Art Basel Hong Kong later this month and in a 2020 solo show in New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 13, 2019
Auctions ‘People Didn’t See It Coming’: Victoria Beckham on How She Became an Unlikely Celebrity Spokesperson for Female Old Masters The fashion designer is helping Sotheby's New York promote "The Female Triumphant," a rare grouping of women artists in its upcoming Old Masters sale. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 25, 2019
