Over the course of a single week in November 2014, over $1 billion was spent on contemporary art at the three largest auction houses — Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips. Despite endless articles on ...
In 1989, as the art market roared, the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote deliciously about attending his very first auction, a marquee November sale in New York at Christie’s. He saw “finely tailored ...
Anyone who has followed recent property auction results may have noticed something that looks surprising at first glance.