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  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Masterpiece London 2022
    Jewellery by artists from Picasso to Grayson Perry reaches new heights

    Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    The Art Market
    New York auction season ends with record $2.5bn total

    Christie’s has Yves Klein for London; Inigo Philbrick gets seven years in prison; sellout booths at Frieze NY

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Visual Arts
    Macklowe art collection brings in record $922mn haul at auction

    Second tranche of works sold by Sotheby’s indicates valuations remain high

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    Music
    The Sex Pistols: from filth and fury to Disney and Sotheby’s

    A TV bio-series and upcoming auction may upset punk purists, but the group themselves made a mockery of the concept of ‘selling out’

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    The Art Market
    Rediscovered Egon Schiele painting to become an NFT

    Female collectors dominate at Christie’s; demand for art still strong in Hong Kong; Gagosian and White Cube agree to share

  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
    Stanley Gibbons Group PLC
    Stanley Gibbons expects inflation boost to dealing in stamps and coins

    UK collectibles group says real assets could appreciate as investors hedge against rising prices

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Football
    Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ shirt to be auctioned for up to an estimated £6mn

    England player Steve Hodge to sell jersey given to him by football superstar after 1986 World Cup match

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    The Art Market
    Auction houses to ride the boom in 2022

    Cheap money and a hybrid model have benefited the salerooms, but galleries and art fairs face stiffer winds

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    The Art Market
    No NFT, no comment — how digital art dominated 2021

    In a year of tech innovation, buyers and sellers have had to grapple with new systems of value and ownership — or lose out

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    The Art Market
    Stormtrooper ‘Art Wars’ sparks legal action

    NFT art collection in dispute; auction sales set to double this year; Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty; Frieze hires new US head; Catherine the Great’s vaccination letter for sale

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    Citadel LLC
    Griffin buys copy of US constitution after bidding war with crypto traders

    Citadel founder pays $43.2m for document and will display it in Walmart heir’s museum

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    Macklowe divorce art collection sells for $676m in blockbuster auction

    Demand eclipses expectations after couple were forced to sell trove of works acquired over years

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    The Art Market
    Death and divorce drive multimillion-dollar auctions

    Tokyo Art Week’s first show; NFT artists mostly ‘white and male’; book explores museum founders’ motivations

  • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
    Collecting
    Sotheby’s to auction $600m of art from Macklowe divorce

    Rothko, Giacometti and Warhol among works to be sold by real estate developer Harry and ex-wife Linda

  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    Non-fungible tokens
    Tim Berners-Lee’s web NFT sells for $5.4m

    ‘Non-fungible token’ representing original web source code ranks among most valuable ever sold

  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
    Patrick Drahi to net big payday from Sotheby’s $300m bond deal

    Businessman who bought auction house in 2019 to receive second dividend in six months

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    John Gapper
    Collecting rare stamps is an investment in oddity

    The British Guiana One-Cent Magenta shows the financial allure of imperfect rarities

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    John Gapper
    The original old master is an auction-house trick

    Controversy over whether Leonardo painted ‘Salvator Mundi’ conceals a messy reality

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    World
    Auction house sales to test collectors’ appetite for crypto-art

    Interest in digital artworks have soared amid surging demand for non-fungible tokens

  • Saturday, 20 March, 2021
    UK arts
    Sotheby’s to auction painting behind memorable artist vs patron spat

    Family portrait in the collection of the Mountbatten family embarrassed the man who commissioned it

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    FTfmJohn Dizard
    Taxman is out for art market money laundering

    Auction houses face the prospect of enforcing anti-money-laundering rules as strict as those in the banking industry

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    HTSI
    Top cat: Lord Mountbatten’s Jaguar rides again

    The only thing better than a Jag is a Jag with a crown on. As Mountbatten’s 420 goes under the hammer, we examine the ultimate style accessory

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
    Auctioneers bid to clone live experience

    Houses experiment in reproducing online the glamour and adrenalin of physical sales

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    Watches & Jewellery
    Sam Hines: the postboy who delivered Sotheby’s to the top of the pile

    Watches chief expects auctions will become marquee events for just exceptional lots, with the rest sold online or privately

  • Monday, 27 July, 2020
    Style
    Diamonds and Dutch masters: what the wealthy are buying

    Jewellers, auction houses and property agents report a brisk business in rare gems, autographed trainers and $19m Hamptons homes during Covid-19

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