Fine art is an $80 billion global market and the co-founders of Artspace.com think an online marketplace can grab $10 billion to $15 billion of that total. “We’re building a…
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Andy Warhol’s estate is cashing out. A quarter-century after the Pop artist died, his art foundation is about to upend the Warhol market by auctioning off the rest of his…
Can insurance be sexy? Maybe in the art world. In 2007, FBI agents showed up at the office of film director (and celebrity art collector) Steven Spielberg to reclaim a…
Most people buy art because they love to look at it, but there’s always the hope that the payoff will go beyond aesthetics. The prices of photographer Cindy Sherman’s works…
In a spacious, luxury apartment perched on the leafy hills of Hong Kong, Kai-Yin Lo browses through a trove of Chinese art acquired over several decades, reflecting how her niche,…
When Chicago-based Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held its Asian arts sale in May of this year, they expected sales of somewhere around a million dollars. The sale ended up racking up…
The Museum of Fine Arts has agreed to pay restitution to the heir of a Jewish art dealer killed at Auschwitz after determining that a 17th-century Dutch painting in its…
The Bay Area has long been knocked for its lack of commercial prospects for artists of all stripes, including visual ones. San Francisco may be teeming with young creative types,…
A unique 1945 Joan Miro wood sculpture, “Oiseau Lunaire,” priced at $5 million, was confirmed sold today at the opening of the world’s largest art-and-antiques fair. The Miro had been…
