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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 09: A view outside Sotheby's on October 9, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Two Shareholders Are Suing Sotheby’s Over Its Proposed $3.7 Billion Acquisition

July 23, 2019

artnet news - Two Sotheby’s shareholders have filed similar lawsuits against the auction house and 14 of its executives over plans for the company to be acquired and taken private by French media tycoon Patrick...

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How Banksy’s Prank Might Boost His Prices: ‘It’s a Part of Art History’

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October 11, 2018

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New York Times - Everybody’s talking about it. How did the world’s most famous street artist manage to shred — or rather half shred — one of his iconic “Girl With Balloon” paintings moments after it had sold f...

Is the Art Market Ready to Embrace Work Made by Artificial Intelligence? Christie’s Will Test the Waters This Fall

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August 22, 2018

Art and Technology, Art Market, Auctions

Artnet - Christie’s New York will make history this fall when it becomes the first auction house to sell a work of art made by artificial intelligence. The print on canvas, a product of an algorithm developed b...

See the 10 Biggest Museum Acquisitions of 2017

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December 29, 2017

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Artnet News - This power year in the art world peaked with Christie’s historic showstopper auction, as Leonardo da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million to a mysterious buyer, who has since turned out (a...

Constantin Brancusi, La muse endormie (1913). Courtesy Christie’s

Beyond Leonardo: the artists who led the auctions in 2017

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December 29, 2017

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The Art Newspaper - After suffering from a dearth of top works in the preceding two years, owing to economic jitters sparked by geopolitical uncertainty, the Impressionist and Modern market saw a comeback in c...

Andy Warhol photographed with art collectors Ethel and Robert Scull, sculptor George Segal, and painter James Rosenquist at the Scull's residence in 1973. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

Three Ways the 1973 Scull Sale Changed the Art Market

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April 28, 2017

Art and Culture, Art Market, Auctions

Artsy - Many common complaints about today’s contemporary art market—the billions of dollars sloshing around the market, the spectacle-driven fairs, the speculators and profit-seekers buying up works by young a...