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    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      ObituaryLily Safra
      Lily Safra, philanthropist and art collector, 1934-2022

      The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      The Art Market
      New York auctions dominate record first half of 2022

      Luxembourg + Co opens in Fuller Building; Perrotin doubles up in Seoul; slim Old Masters sales

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      Collecting
      London sales show signs of buyer fatigue

      UK works sell well at Masterpiece; African art at Christie’s; Hôtel Lambert trove; new fair director at Art Basel; Deborah Roberts piece helps charity

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Masterpiece London 2022
      Jewellery by artists from Picasso to Grayson Perry reaches new heights

      Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      The Art Market
      New York auction season ends with record $2.5bn total

      Christie’s has Yves Klein for London; Inigo Philbrick gets seven years in prison; sellout booths at Frieze NY

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Macklowe art collection brings in record $922mn haul at auction

      Second tranche of works sold by Sotheby’s indicates valuations remain high

    • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
      Music
      The Sex Pistols: from filth and fury to Disney and Sotheby’s

      A TV bio-series and upcoming auction may upset punk purists, but the group themselves made a mockery of the concept of ‘selling out’

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      The Art Market
      Rediscovered Egon Schiele painting to become an NFT

      Female collectors dominate at Christie’s; demand for art still strong in Hong Kong; Gagosian and White Cube agree to share

    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
      Stanley Gibbons Group PLC
      Stanley Gibbons expects inflation boost to dealing in stamps and coins

      UK collectibles group says real assets could appreciate as investors hedge against rising prices

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      Football
      Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ shirt to be auctioned for up to an estimated £6mn

      England player Steve Hodge to sell jersey given to him by football superstar after 1986 World Cup match

    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      The Art Market
      Auction houses to ride the boom in 2022

      Cheap money and a hybrid model have benefited the salerooms, but galleries and art fairs face stiffer winds

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      The Art Market
      No NFT, no comment — how digital art dominated 2021

      In a year of tech innovation, buyers and sellers have had to grapple with new systems of value and ownership — or lose out

    • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
      The Art Market
      Stormtrooper ‘Art Wars’ sparks legal action

      NFT art collection in dispute; auction sales set to double this year; Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty; Frieze hires new US head; Catherine the Great’s vaccination letter for sale

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Citadel LLC
      Griffin buys copy of US constitution after bidding war with crypto traders

      Citadel founder pays $43.2m for document and will display it in Walmart heir’s museum

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Macklowe divorce art collection sells for $676m in blockbuster auction

      Demand eclipses expectations after couple were forced to sell trove of works acquired over years

    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      The Art Market
      Death and divorce drive multimillion-dollar auctions

      Tokyo Art Week’s first show; NFT artists mostly ‘white and male’; book explores museum founders’ motivations

    • Thursday, 9 September, 2021
      Collecting
      Sotheby’s to auction $600m of art from Macklowe divorce

      Rothko, Giacometti and Warhol among works to be sold by real estate developer Harry and ex-wife Linda

    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Non-fungible tokens
      Tim Berners-Lee’s web NFT sells for $5.4m

      ‘Non-fungible token’ representing original web source code ranks among most valuable ever sold

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Patrick Drahi to net big payday from Sotheby’s $300m bond deal

      Businessman who bought auction house in 2019 to receive second dividend in six months

    • Friday, 7 May, 2021
      John Gapper
      Collecting rare stamps is an investment in oddity

      The British Guiana One-Cent Magenta shows the financial allure of imperfect rarities

    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      John Gapper
      The original old master is an auction-house trick

      Controversy over whether Leonardo painted ‘Salvator Mundi’ conceals a messy reality

    • Friday, 9 April, 2021
      World
      Auction house sales to test collectors’ appetite for crypto-art

      Interest in digital artworks have soared amid surging demand for non-fungible tokens

    • Saturday, 20 March, 2021
      UK arts
      Sotheby’s to auction painting behind memorable artist vs patron spat

      Family portrait in the collection of the Mountbatten family embarrassed the man who commissioned it

    • Friday, 19 March, 2021
      FTfmJohn Dizard
      Taxman is out for art market money laundering

      Auction houses face the prospect of enforcing anti-money-laundering rules as strict as those in the banking industry

    • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
      HTSI
      Top cat: Lord Mountbatten’s Jaguar rides again

      The only thing better than a Jag is a Jag with a crown on. As Mountbatten’s 420 goes under the hammer, we examine the ultimate style accessory

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