As we settle into a new year and a fresh auction season begins, the question looms: can the major houses turn the tide? Adrien Meyer selling the top lot of the evening, Rene Magritte’s L’empire des ...

Over the last several decades, whisky has emerged as an alternative investment asset class, albeit a rather controversial one. Concurrent with that development has been the growth of a secondary, $200 ...

In 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph with a camera obscura, a “dark room” that anticipated the camera and required an exposure of several days.

This year marks the third in a row of declining auction sales, down 44 percent, or over $3 billion, from 2022—and the lowest total in at least a decade, excluding 2020, CNBC reported. Sales of postwar ...

While there are more longstanding art market data providers available to followers of the market, ironically, in our view, the digitization of auction information and the financialization of the most ...

In 1989, as the art market roared, the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote deliciously about attending his very first auction, a marquee November sale in New York at Christie’s. He saw “finely tailored ...

Auctions and after-sales overseen by the five major houses—BonhamsCars, Broad Arrow, Gooding & Co., Mecum Auctions and RM Sotheby’s—brought in around $400 million this past weekend. This is the second ...

Auction sales have been declining for the third year in a row, as dealers, auctioneers and collectors ponder a deeper crisis in the art market. Auction sales for the first half of the year at ...