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Meet Wall Street’s Crypto Artist
Sarah Meyohas’s work at the intersection of art, technology and finance earned the contemporary artist fame with financiers and tech geeks. Her latest piece aims squarely at the crypto crowd.Long before Beeple’s digital collage fetched tens…
Samsung Family Art Trove Needs a Home, and Towns Are Vying to Adopt
SEOUL—The family behind the
Samsung
empire, aiming to reduce its nearly $11 billion inheritance-tax bill, is donating 23,000 Monets, Picassos, Dalis and other art that Chairman
Lee…
François Pinault’s Art Collection Goes on Display in New Museum in Paris
A new museum down the street from the Louvre is being unveiled along with some historical baggage that reflects how France is acknowledging and re-evaluating its colonialist history.
The Bourse de Commerce, a Belle Epoque…
Sotheby’s, Christie’s Expect to Sell $1 Billion in Art at Spring Auctions
New York’s top auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s will attempt to auction at least $1 billion in art during a series of in-person and live-streamed sales starting Tuesday next week, marking a return to a somewhat normal rhythm after a…
Art World Players Rethink the Auction Marketplace
Collectors have long enlisted dealers or auction houses to help resell their art holdings because such insiders typically have up-to-date pricing data and access to potential buyers.
Now, in the latest challenge to the…
Auction House Phillips Names Former Christie’s Executive as New CEO
A former Christie’s executive known for arranging complex art deals and navigating the auction house through a recession has been hired to run Phillips, a smaller rival.London-based auction house Phillips said it plans to name Stephen…