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The Macklowe Collection Sets Multiple Artist Records to Bring in $676 Million at Sotheby’s
All 21 lots in the NYC sale sold by Monday evening, surpassing a peak pre-sale estimate of $618.9 million.
Luxury Interior Design Pieces Are the Pinnacle of Christmas Gifting
The best gifts are ones that the recipient can look at for years to come and be reminded of how generous you are and how lucky they are to have you in their life. For that, you should be gifting luxury interior design. Sure, copping your loved ones clothes is always appreciated, but unlike interior […]
A Prado Museum Exhibition Argues That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Not by Leonardo da Vinci
The show, which opened in September, questions the provenance of the $450 million painting.
Christie’s New York Rakes in a Record $219 Million at Its First Live Art Sale Since 2020
All 40 lots offered at the event sold.
2021’s Most “Iconic” Watch Is, Of Course, Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak
If you’re a watch nobody (like myself), you may not be familiar with the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève; it’s basically the world’s pre-eminent watch awards ceremony, the Oscars for timepieces. Most of the big players received platitudes this year, but Audemars Piguet‘s Royal Oak may have taken home the finest prize of them all. […]
Only Affluent Pokémon Trainers Can Catch fragment’s $27k Glass Pikachu
Of the many youthful franchises to align with the streetwear set, Pokémon may be the most enduring. Similarly, of all the streetwear types to partner with franchises, Hiroshi Fujiwara and his fragment design are easily the most omnipresent. As part of fragment’s ongoing Pokémon collaboration series — which includes everything from plushes to Pokémon GO […]
A Fire at the Congo’s National Museum of Gungu Has Destroyed Thousands Cultural Artifacts
Between 8,000 and 9,000 artifacts—roughly a third of the museum’s holdings—burned in the fire on November 4.
A Painting Stolen in One of Germany’s Biggest Art Heists Could Be a Rembrandt
The work, recovered last September, is one of five Old Master paintings stolen in 1979 from Schloss Friedenstein.
One of Claude Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ Paintings Could Fetch Over $40 Million at Auction
Titled 'Coin Le Bassin aux Nymphéas', the work will be offered by Sotheby's in a New York sale on November 16.
80 Years in the Making, Diego Rivera’s ‘City of the Arts’ Complex Finally Opens in Mexico City
The 13-building complex opened this past weekend at the Anahuacalli Museum with exhibition spaces and more.
An Italian Villa With a Ceiling Mural by Caravaggio Could Fetch $547 Million at Auction
The painting alone has been valued at $360 million.
The Victoria and Albert Museum Has Returned a Looted 4,000-Year-Old Object to Turkey
The museum returned the ancient Anatolian gold ewer to its home on Tuesday.