V&A East Opens with Gen Z in Mind
The Headlines A MUSEUM FOR GEN Z. Gus Casely-Hayford, director of the new V&A East, wants London’s long-awaited…
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…
Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet going to auction at Sotheby’s – The Art Newspaper
One year after Sotheby’s drew global attention with the $6.2m sale of Maurizo Cattelan’s Comedian (2019)—a banana duct-taped…
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…
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…
Sotheby’s New Breuer Building HQ Slated to Open November 8
Sotheby’s has announced November 8 as the opening date for its new Breuer Building headquarters at 945 Madison…
World’s only complete baby dinosaur skeleton to hit auction block
Sotheby’s is auctioning the only known juvenile specimen of a Ceratosaurus nasicornis dinosaur for an estimated $4-6 million.…