art collecting

Art auctions aren’t unlike the stock market. Buzzing with brokers, speculators, and investors, they’re a place where artwork is reduced to an asset, established artists are labelled “blue…

Boutique auctioneer Phillips sold a 16-foot-wide, red-and-peach painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $85 million in New York on Wednesday.  Japanese billionaire…

Chicago gallery owner Rhona Hoffman has three or four collectors she won’t sell to again.“They broke the rule,” says the contemporary art dealer.That…

SAN FRANCISCO—Four-year-old OpenSea has gained fame and a $13 billion valuation by staking a claim as the world’s biggest marketplace for some of the buzziest new items to trade, nonfungible…

Art collectors and cryptocurrency investors went wild last year buying art that exists only in the digital world. Now, Desiree Casoni, a collector in Key Biscayne, Fla., is trying to figure…

A Sandro Botticelli portrait of Jesus Christ with bloodshot eyes and a halo of tiny, weeping angels sold for $45.4 million on Thursday in the latest sign of the art…

Christie’s International said Monday it sold $7.1 billion in art this year—the highest annual total in the past five years amid an industry comeback that saw prices skyrocket for longtime…

The Christie’s auction house may summon images of richly-priced art, wealthy buyers with small paddles and intense specialists taking bids at a phone bank. But that’s been changing. This…

On Saturday, in a ballroom of the Bellagio Hotel & Casino, Sotheby’s plans to auction off 11 works by the Spanish master owned by gambling giant MGM Resorts…

Call it Al Capone’s final haul. A trove of family mementos, jewelry and weapons that were once owned by the notorious gangster will be auctioned off by his three surviving…