Jenny Saville Lands First Solo Show in Venice: Morning Links
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES SAVILLE ON A ROLL. The International…
Herzog & de Meuron transforms Breuer Building into Sotheby’s gallery
Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and local studio PBDW Architects have completed a “quasi-invisible” renovation of Marcel Breuer‘s…
What Happens When the Old Whitney Breuer Building Becomes a Sotheby’s
When I heard in 2023 that Sotheby’s, one of the Big Three auction houses alongside Christie’s and Phillips,…
Morning Links for October 31, 2025.
The Headlines ROYAL FLUSH. During the marquee New York sales next month, Maurizio Cattelan, whose duct-taped banana sold for $6.2 million…
$45 M. Basquiat, $15 M. Kerry James Marshall Consigned by Top Collectors
With the London sales all wrapped and Art Basel Paris kicking off earlier this week, there’s only one…
Young Bordeaux Wine Struggles at Auction While Mature Vintages Thrive
This story is from an installment of The Oeno Files, our weekly insider newsletter to the world of…
Hemmerle’s Scabiosa Stellata Earrings Are Its Most Complex Jewels
As with so many of Hemmerle’s jewelry creations, inspiration began with a flower, this time, the scabiosa stellata,…
David Hockney’s iPad Drawings Smash High Estimate at Sotheby’s
A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled “The Arrival of Spring,” hit the auction block…
How Basquiat Became One of the World’s Most Valuable Artists
In September, Gaston & Sheehan, a tiny auctioneer in Pflugerville, Texas, sold Red Man One, a 1982 painting…
This Frida Kahlo Painting Could Shatter Auction Records
It took less than two minutes for Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait “Diego and I” (1949) to crush auction records…
Is the Persian Gulf Art Boom an Autocrat-Created Mirage?
While art markets in Europe and the United States sputter, a very different story is unfolding on the…