Tiffany Lamp Lights Up the Auction Block With Record $4.4 Million Sale
Of the dozens of Tiffany lamps Sotheby’s offered at its Dreaming in Glass auction in New York, none came close to matching the price achieved for the Magnolia...
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Lucy Liu Paints the ‘Emotional Truth’ of Family Memories
At the heart of Lucy Liu’s new show at Alisan Fine Arts in New York is a portrait of a family. Parents pose behind three young children in an idyllic park, the...
This Auction Is a Journey Through Centuries of Collecting, From Italian Baroque to Gothic Revival
From opulent jewelry and historic furniture to fine art by Modern masters, the Estates Auction staged by New Orleans Auction Galleries brings together an...
The Louvre’s Historic Fashion Exhibition Lands in Houston
A taste of Paris has made its way to Texas. The Louvre’s second-hottest show of all time,“Louvre Couture,” just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,...
Don’t Know How to Start Investing in Art? Fintech Startup Arttrade Has a Solution
Art collecting has a very distinct cachet, one that is exclusive, monied, and largely opaque. Blue-chip art and artists (those with a proven sales record and a...
Leon Black and Ronald Lauder Joined Forces to Buy Masterpieces, Epstein Files Show
For many years, I’ve heard rumors that billionaires Leon Black and Ronald Lauder, two of New York’s most powerful art collectors and fellow trustees of the...
French Investment Fund ArtNova Makes Its First International Power Move
The French cultural investment fund ArtNova has acquired Art Market Minds, the company behind the Art Business Conference, a series of annual one-day...
‘Fine Art Is Good Medicine’: How Hospitals Around the World Are Experimenting With the Healing Power of Art
A patient was so bored by his hospital room’s décor that he told a nurse to save the next patient time by informing him or her that 391 fleurs-de-lis adorned...
A Month After I Published a Book About How to Run an Art Gallery, I Closed Mine. Here’s Why
In November 2018, the second edition of How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery, a book I co-authored with Edward Winkleman, was released. The following...
Street Art Is a Global Commercial Juggernaut With a Diverse Audience. Why Don’t Museums Know What to Do With It?
Street art is far and away the world’s most globally accessible genre of contemporary art. It’s shared obsessively on social media, courted by fashion and...
