Filed under: Auctions, Art Once the undisputed land of conspicuous wealth and consumption, the United Arab Emirates is being squeezed by a large drop in oil prices. It's a shame this comes after the region's addiction to art has become fully entrenched. Sotheby's is planning its first contemporary a...

Consisting of over 13,000 printed books and manuscripts, the Valmadonna Trust Library is a monumental record of Jewish life and culture around the world....

The Reality of Feb 09 Art Auctions - artmarketblog.com The first round of major art auctions for 09 have proven that there is still a considerable amount of money available to be spent on top quality and rare works of art provided the price is right. Fresh works from private collections appeared to ...

Now that the years of stratospheric prices and high living are over, Sotheby’s and Christie’s are laying off scores of employees, restructuring departments and cutting costs....

In lieu of next week's (we're guessing) inevitable headline "Everybody Everywhere Laid Off," we'll continue to bring the grim news piecemeal, as it terribly unfolds. Today it's art! The market for fancy paintings and stuff has been crap lately, as, really, the arts are always the first thing to go w...

Filed under: Auctions, Celebrity Shopping, Charity Jerry Hall, supermodel, actress, and ex-wife of Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, is emptying out her closet and donating everything to charity. She's getting rid of 430 items total, including clothing and accessories from designer names like Dior, Balma...

The Art Newspaper revealed that the London-based Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is the mystery buyer of Francis Bacon’s Triptych, 1976, which sold at Sotheby’s New York this week for $86.3m as well as Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, at Christie’s for $33.6m. History ...

The 710-year-old handwriting is small and neat, but the brown ink clings so precariously to the hard surface of the animal skin that some of the phrases have been washed away by water....