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Art Auctions

  1. magical thinking
    Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion’s Estate SaleThings began going off the rails when the first painting went for $110,000.
  2. for sale
    Paul Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection Will Be Sold for CharityThe late Microsoft co-founder’s collection is going up for grabs in the largest art auction ever.
  3. art du jour
    Someone Really Spent $69 Million on This Nice JPG“Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a digital collage.
  4. art auctions
    For $13 Million, David Bowie’s Elusive Art Collection Could Be YoursMore than 400 works owned by Bowie will go on display at Sotheby’s in November, and then up for auction.
  5. art and design 2016
    5 Lessons in Today’s Art Market From a Sotheby’s AdvisorSotheby’s Amy Cappellazzo has made a very nice career out of pricing pigment.
  6. Good-bye Forever to Picasso’s Women of AlgiersI set eyes on the beautiful reward by Picasso known as The Women of Algiers, an epic master class on the ways of painting, which will be sold tonight to a private collector for $140 million.
  7. Who’s Off-loading Masterworks at This Month’s Auctions?Step right up to get your Rothkos, Picassos, and Monets in the $2.3 billion sale-a-thon.
  8. art auctions
    Francis Bacon Painting Breaks Auction Record, Sells for $142 millionIn your screaming face, Edvard Munch.
  9. art auctions
    A Rothko From 1954 Just Sold for an Ungodly Sum$75.1 million for No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue).
  10. art auctions
    Jerry Saltz: This Is Why I Hate Big-Money Art AuctionsNot just because they’re freak-show legal casinos.
  11. party lines
    McDormand Hosts Wooster’s First Art AuctionEven though photographers ask him to write them all the time.