An enormous round of applause rang out in the Sotheby's salesroom following its contemporary art evening sale tonight in New York, as the auction house wrapped perhaps the first solidly positive sale…
On November 11, Sotheby’s in New York will sell Cy Twombly’s Untitled, 1968 (New York City), with estimated price exceeding $60 million, according to the auction house. The painting comes from the…
It has been a roaring week for the contemporary art market in London. Last night, Sotheby's sold £123.5 million (or about $188.2 million) worth of art at its annual postwar and contemporary sale…
Records fall for Twombly, Ruscha, Doig, Kippenberger, Sturtevant, Price, and more
The lively two-hour-and-fifteen-minute sale tallied $853 million, the highest total for an auction in any category. Along the way, records were achieved for 11 artists. "It was a really well-managed…
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 “The Library Vaccine” at Artists Space “The Library Vaccine presents a number of discrete collections of books in order to sample art’s distinctive relationship to the book…
Sotheby's New York achieved its highest auction total ever last night, selling $380.6 million worth of postwar and contemporary art, led by a $105.4 million Warhol.
The auction house's Nov. 13 and 14 contemporary art sales will include 27 examples, anticipated to bring in excess of $20 million. The sale will allow the museum to start an acquisitions fund…
A June 28 letter to Dia Art Foundation director Philippe Vergne fromPaul Winkler, brother of Dia co-founder Helen Winkler, opposing the foundation's planned sale of artworks this fall at Sotheby's…
