COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An unemployed Ohio man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster...
The analogy occurred to me: the Art World is to Art as Wall Street is to Democracy; the former no longer a vital contributor to the latter.
Gerhard Richter is at the head of a changing art market. The German artist, known for his ability to cover a range of styles, from the abstract to the...
If you ever find yourself choosing between some Warhols or a few stocks, we're here to make that decision easier. A new study has found that artwork b...
Deciding what price to put on artwork is one of the most difficult problems for lesser-known or "emerging" artists, since there is no obvious point of reference.
As auction houses prepare for their fall sales, Chinese collectors are expected to be a major boost for the market, raising their paddles for big-tick...
The past few weeks, the stock market has been reeling as concerns about the U.S. and global economy resurface. In an attempt to discover what this mea...
LONDON -- Christie's auction house says a painting by Francis Bacon has sold for 17.96 million pounds ($28.7 million) at a sale in London. Christie's...
If Art Basel serves as the art world's bellwether, then this years fair is extremely promising. Works by twentieth century artists such as Pablo Picas...
It's not much of a challenge to figure out which of the hundreds of lots are considered the most valuable--just look at the estimates, starting at $40...
If you need evidence that the pallid economy is regaining its color, just ask mural artist Doug Coggeshall. Last week, I caught up with Coggeshall for...
Should artists allow the "sale" potential of a piece to influence their art? You know, just add a dog in the background, and someone will buy it.
Ever get curious about how an art career happens? Let's look at one recent example of an artist's rise for near obscurity to museum shows and New York gallery openings.
Whereas highly valued masterpieces were rare in 2009, reassured sellers sent top-tier works from Giacometti to Picasso tumbling across the auction block in 2010.
A curated tour of Phillip de Pury's forthcoming auction, simply called 80s, finds some images that help coin the style, the mood, and the values of an era.
A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson's architectural practice -- including his hand-drawn sketches for towers ...
In a burst of positive news for the art market, New York's two biggest arts fairs, which closed on Sunday, both had a record number of visitors and ma...
Since 1913, The Armory Show Art Fair has been the preeminent international exhibition of modern art in the United States.
The big June art sales, which start Tuesday in London, are expected by the auction houses to break more records as collectors from commodities-rich re...
