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Willem de Kooning 11 Apr 2023

Mo Ostin Loved His Artists—and His Art Collection

The art market continues to be driven by two very different engines. On the one hand, as we saw in...

Art Market 10 Apr 2023

The Art Market Is Stuck in 2nd Gear

Philip Guston 10 Apr 2023

Christie's Has $50m Press Collection for May

Ed Ruscha, Burning Standard (1968) estimated at $20 million With more than a month to go to the big...

Christie's 20 Mar 2023

Christie's Unveils Major Single-Owner Sale for May

Gerhard Richter, Badende (1967) estimated at $15 million

Contemporary Art 14 Mar 2023

The Market for Emerging Artists Defies the Odds

Higher Total Sales in a Slower Market

Christie's 9 Mar 2023

Double Visionary

Christie’s seems to be leading the way in sizing the art market to current conditions. Earlier this...

Phillips 8 Mar 2023

What’s the New Art Market Look Like?

The results from London offer a surprise: the market is down by a third but young artists are still...

Lot Announcement 21 Feb 2023

Christie's Announces $144m Newhouse Single-Owner Sale

Perhaps it was inevitable. The success of Paul Allen’s $1.6 billion sale coming before an overall...

Contemporary Art 19 Oct 2022

FUTURES: The Broom Boom

Emily Mae Smith rose as one of the stars of the 2021 season. A female artist, a figurative painter,...

NFT 9 Sep 2022

Riding Electric Rivers to Global Dreams

Huang Yuxing spent three years painting it; Seven Treasure Pines, an epic seven-panel landscape was...

Contemporary Art 2 Aug 2022

FUTURES: Louis Fratino’s Touching Figures

Through museum shows and Instagram posts, Salman Toor, Doron Langberg, and Jenna Gribbon have...

Contemporary Art 28 Jul 2022

Jesse Mockrin: Identity and Art History

In 2020, Vogue magazine commissioned artist Jesse Mockrin to create a portrait of Billie...

Outsider Art 18 Jul 2022

Anne Buckwalter: Interior as Autobiography

Anne Buckwalter’s interiors are painted autobiographies. They depict, in the words of the...

Artist Profile 7 Jul 2022

FUTURES: Katherine Bernhardt's Prices Go Global

If you want to see the power of a global gallery to establish demand and build stronger prices,...

Artist Profile 23 Jun 2022

FUTURES: El Anatsui's Steady Rise

The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui lives and works in Nigeria. His studio creates work in a variety...

Auctions 21 Jun 2022

Ouattara Watts: The Thirty-Year Overnight Sensation

Of all of the surprises that took place during the May sales in New York, one big one—the sale...

Auctions 13 Jan 2023

Who Were the Market Stars of '22 We Can Expect to See More of in '23?

LiveArt’s database of auction sales provides robust market intelligence. Here we’ve used it to...

Auctions 15 Jul 2022

Phillips Announces $746m in Sales, up 37%

Phillips released its mid-year sales figures today along with the announcement that it would be...

Contemporary Art 30 Jun 2022

After Action Report: Phillips London Evening Sale

Phillips London Evening Sale totaled £17.5 million ($21.28 million) with 31 of the 33 lots...

Auctions 29 Jun 2022

After Action Report: Sotheby's Jubilee + Modern & Contemporary Sales

Sotheby’s tried to add some excitement to the perennially cramped June auction season in...

Auctions 28 Jun 2022

LiveArt After Action Report: Christie's London-to-Paris Sale

Christie’s held three sales in one Evening to bring together more than the European market by...

Auctions 22 Jun 2022

LiveArt After Action Report: 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales (Phillips Hong Kong)

A New Day Dawns: Phillips Hong Kong sales cycle for June made HKD 357 million ($45 million)....

Auctions 24 May 2022

New York Sales Total $2.7 Billion but Bidding and Value Are in Different Places

The New York cycle of marquee auctions—dominated by the sales of three major...

Auctions 24 May 2022

Andy Warhol, Claude Monet Top New York Sales Market Share

The $195 million Shot Sage Blue Marilyn helped push Andy Warhol back into the top spot for...

NFT 22 Jul 2022

What Will the Luxury Metaverse Look Like?

Christie’s fifth Art & Tech Summit held this week at the auction house’s New York headquarters...

NFT 18 Mar 2022

The Being Behind LOVEBEING

HBO’s “Room 104” is an anthology series in which each episode is a stand-alone story set in the...

NFT 25 Jan 2022

APENFT Foundation & LiveArt Announce Exhibition in Cryptovoxels & Auction on LiveArtX

“Second Life,” a rare exhibition of digital art presented in the Cryptovoxel metaverse,...

The Wall Street Journal

5 May 2021

Art World Players Rethink the Auction Marketplace

A new peer-to-peer digital platform lets high-end collectors buy and sell without the middleman.

Art News

5 May 2021

Auction House Veterans Unveil New Data and Private Dealing Platform

A group of former auction house heavyweights, including Sotheby’s former Chief Operating Officer,...

The Art Newspaper

16 Jun 2021

Anonymous peer-to-peer trading platform LiveArt Market launches with $5m of sales already—but how on earth does it work?

Buyers and sellers will never know each others identity when transacting through the online site,...

Financial Times

6 May 2021

Technology Drives the Art Trade

Three senior former Sotheby’s staffers are among the management of a new company that turns private...

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