Art market 2025 review: all eyes on the Gulf as Trump destabilises global order – The Art Newspaper
The contraction of the global art market stretched well into 2025, with the challenging macro environment cited as…
Frida Kahlo’s record-breaking painting was a gift for a US photographer who was her lover for 10 years | Culture
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 painting “The Dream (The Bed)” is no ordinary work of art. And the recent auction…
Okada Museum’s Founder Sells 125 Works at Sotheby’s
A total of 125 major works from Japan’s Okada Museum of Art hit the auction block at Sotheby’s…
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
Poised to shatter records ahead of its highly anticipated sale, one of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable…
Gustav Klimt painting sells for $236.4M, becomes second most expensive artwork ever auctioned in history
A Gustav Klimt painting was sold for $236.4 million on Tuesday, November 18, becoming the world’s most expensive…
At Marquee Sales Midpoint, Market Celebrates Victory for Top End
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Klimt’s Elisabeth Lederer Portrait Sells for $236.4 M. at Sotheby’s
A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby’s, where Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold…
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…