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Midas Oracle .ORG (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
[Cross-posted from our twin blog, Midas Oracle .COM] - $125 million —and that’s only on the first day of the auctions. Felix Salmon has an omelette on his head, now. ---------- Midas Oracle .ORG = Site Map + Archives + Best + Charts + Exchanges + Software + Links + People + Write A Post Or A Page + How [...]
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Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
AN OUTLIER ON NATIONAL CITY For the last several weeks, Wall Street has had a fascination with trying to name the next M.L.B.B. - that is, ”most likely to behave like Bear.” Stop the calls and letters, folks at home - we’ve got a winner: National City (NCC). While most of Wall Street has been thrilled [...]
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 26/01/2008
At New York sales of Old Master drawings at Sotheby's and of Chinese porcelain at Christie's, buyers remained bullish despite uncertainties on Wall Street. The two categories of art appeal to different constituencies. Yet, both were equally successful.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of “Artemis and the Stag,” below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of “Artemis and the Stag,” below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will...
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Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 21/12/2007
A wealthy Japanese art collector could not decide which firm of auctioneers should sell his cache of Impressionist paintings. Torn between Christie's and rival auction house Sotheby's, he asked them to play stone, paper, scissors to decide.
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 19/12/2007
ONE of only 17 existing copies of the Magna Carta, the 800-year-old English royal manuscript setting out the rights of man, sold at auction at Sotheby's today for $US21.3 million ($24.8m).
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The UK SF Book News Network (Free subscription) | 14/12/2007
Detail: The unique, almost one-of-a-kind, hand-written and hand-illustrated copy of 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' by J.K. Rowling (that we mentioned back in November) sold at auction yesterday for the princely sum of two million pounds; somewhat more than the fifty thousand pounds that auctioneers Sotheby's initially said it was expected to raise. The [...]
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LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
Not quite Christie’s, not quite Sotheby's Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman But so very close to both! A branding mashup one block east of the Hyatt on East 42nd Street.
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
Sotheby's duped in string of forgeries For about a decade, "The Faun," a ceramic sculpture, has been at the Art Institute of Chicago, presented as a work of the 19th Century French master Paul Gauguin.
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This is London (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
Orson Welles's Oscar for Citizen Kane is expected to fetch nearly £600,000 when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
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Family Research (Free subscription) | 09/12/2007
The road from a Thameside meadow in the 13th century to a New York auction house in 2007 is a long one, but it's the route Magna Carta has taken. For the first time in history the great charter is going under the hammer. David Redden, vice-chairman of Sotheby's, the auctioneers, calls it “the most [...]
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007
Detective work by an arts specialist in London went into identifying an elegant man in a white beard shown riding with four young men in a 17 th century Dutch painting which sold at a Sotheby's auction last night for £378,900.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 15/11/2007
A $46 million Francis Bacon canvas, a record-breaking steel heart by Jeff Koons and an Andy Warhol print of Conrad Black helped propel Sotheby's to its highest ever total for a contemporary arts sale.
