Collectors at Frieze London are also investing with White Cube finding buyers for seven works on paper and Xavier Hufkens selarling a large-scale painting in the region of £950,000

Proceeds of the sale at Christie's will benefit the reproductive justice organisations

One of the highlights of Christie’s upcoming sale of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection, Steichen’s 1904 image is a symbol of photography’s transition into the world of fine art

After multiple art handlers complained online about low wages, misrepresentation and class tourism, traces of the collaboration with Highsnobiety all but disappeared and a senior executive issued a mea culpa

Two of the star lots have been consigned by the Greek Cypriot industrialist and collector Dakis Joannou

In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world

“Gordon always believed that any collection should involve both the eye and the ear, as did Ann. Yes, you may like how a painting looks, but what is it telling you? Hearing is as important as seeing”

The inaugural sale on Christie's3.0 will consist of nine NFTs by the artist and activist Diana Sinclair

Crypto might have crashed, but online-only sales and other digital channels are allowing auction houses to deepen their business beyond the thin market for blue-chip art

Though most famous for his Impressionist portraits of women and scenes of Parisian café society, Édouard Manet’s portrait of Bob the dog hits all the right notes

The Players Foundation says the current financial crisis has forced it to reassess how it manages its assets and ensures its benevolent work is ongoing

The collaboration with Artory is the first in the history of the decorative arts

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

The auction in November includes prized works from Paul Cezanne and Jasper Johns

The event coincides with the second edition of the Intersect Aspen art fair and the Aspen Art Museum’s annual ArtCrush benefit auction

Long undervalued, especially at auction, her works are now appealing to a wider base of collectors and prices are set to rise accordingly

Move follows concerted drive by the auction house to gain ground in the blockchain and fintech domains

The auction house’s quick reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic has positioned it well to survive any approaching economic headwinds, executives claim

Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals

There were few fireworks in the three-part sale as the froth comes off the top of the market

Davis helped usher NFTs into the mainstream as Christie’s head of digital sales, and has vowed to keep the Punks pure

Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library

On a night when many works outpaced expectations in Christie's New York saleroom, Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” sold for more than 76 times its high estimate

The collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in $317.8m with fees, making it one of Christie's biggest single-owner sales ever

In April and May, the auction house will sell works to support the World Monuments Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières and CORE, the relief organisation founded by Sean Penn

The hologram, produced by the Los Angeles-based company Proto, is currently on view at Christie’s San Francisco and will next be transported via the cloud to Hong Kong

Collaboration between art logistics company Crozier and Christie's will send shipping containers between London, New York and Hong Kong

Christie's Paris will offer the posthumous cast of the famous bronze at auction in June

Formerly attributed to “the school of Michelangelo”, experts now say the nude sketch is by the master's own hand

Only two of the 12 works have been guaranteed, an oddity in the recent string of high-profile single-owner sales