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Room to Grow Revolutionizes Child Care Philanthropy

Michael Macher | Posted 12.11.2009 | Impact


Michael Macher

As America's middle class struggles to adjust to the myriad inconveniences of a shifting economic reality, low-income parents face a far more dire challenge--that of providing their children with basic care.

Raphael Drawing Sells For $48 Million At UK Auction, Sets Records

AP | Posted 12.09.2009 | World


LONDON — A drawing by Raphael and a Rembrandt portrait have set records and together sold for almost 50 million pounds ($82 million) at an aucti...

Poe Rare First Book Sells for $662K At Auction

AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Books


NEW YORK — A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. The c...

Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Up For Auction

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books


Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more -- and nea...

Naked Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate Picture Going To Auction (NSFW PHOTO)

Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment


Christie's auction house is auctioning off a David Bailey photo of Roman Polanski and then-wife Sharon Tate taken shortly before her murder. Christi...

N.C. Wyeth Auction: Christie's To Offer Three Generations Of Wyeths

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 11.24.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — Three generations of Wyeth artworks will be auctioned next month, including 14 original oil canvases by N.C. Wyeth that were used to ...

Letter From Paris: The Church of Saint Laurent

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.20.2009 | Style


Beth Arnold

If the first sale of the Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé collections roared into Paris like the symbolic lion that Saint-Laurent loved, the second began with the squeak of a mouse.

Who Walked Off With Warhol's "200 One Dollar Bills"?

nytimes.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York


Guessing who the winner bidder was for Andy Warhol's "200 One Dollar Bills" in a recent Sotheby's auction is becoming something of a parlor game, with...

"Evening Star" Diamond, 39-Carat Jewel, Up For Auction

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A 39-carat pear-shaped diamond called the Evening Star is going on the auction block in New York City. Its pre-sale estimate is betw...

Basquiat Expected To Fetch $12 Million At Christie's Auction

justluxe.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York


An epic masterpiece by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the highlight of the season's major art auctions, is estimated to fetch up to $12 million stars in Christ...

The Evolution of Paris as a Major Art Market

Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York


Stephanie Adamowicz

Paris is attracting an increasing number of international galleries exhibiting high-quality works by blue chip artists.

Degas Pastel Only Winner At Christie's Art Auction

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York


French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie's salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some str...

Fall Auction Season A Question Mark For Art World

Crain's New York Business | Posted 10.30.2009 | New York


The art world is anxiously awaiting the coming fall auction season, a major gauge of whether collectors are still feeling the wrath of the economic do...

Annenberg Diamond Sold For $7.7 Million At Christie's Auction

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — A square, 32.01-carat emerald-cut diamond that billionaire philanthropist Leonore Annenberg bought for her 90th birthday sold for $7....

Astoria Characters: The Frame-O-Phile

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York


Nancy Ruhling

Astoria-based Eli Wilner has become the framer of choice for the Smithsonian, Sotheby's and Christie's auction houses and the White House. "I want to frame the whole world," he says.

New Show on NBC on Collecting

Reyne Haines | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

Set Your DVR!: Art of Collecting with Reyne Haines and Jonathan Novack Premieres Thursday, September 10 on Channel 2, NBC Houston (Houston, Texa...

Top Ten: Celebrity Collectibles

Reyne Haines | Posted 09.12.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

Which celebrities' pre-owned gems scored big at auction? At number 7, Marilyn Monroe's white baby grand piano, sold by Christies. The lucky bidder? Mariah Carey, for $662,500.

Three Or More: Collecting in the 21st Century

Reyne Haines | Posted 07.03.2009 | Style


Reyne Haines

They say a collection is something you have three or more of. Why just 3 and not 4, or a dozen? I have no idea.

Yves Saint Laurent Auction: Record Brancusi, Matisse, Mondrian Sales (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style


***UPDATED 4:45pm ET*** The world may be embroiled in a crippling credit crisis, but that didn't stop collectors from paying record prices at what Ch...

Yves Saint Laurent Art Auction Expected To Fetch $250 Million

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 03.25.2009 | Style


PARIS — From the Picassos that graced his walls to historic artifacts and hundreds of sculptures, the artwork that inspired late fashion designe...

Nude Madonna Photo Sells For $37,500

AP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — A full-frontal, nude photo of a 20-year-old Madonna fetched $37,500 at auction Thursday, an apparent record auction price for a photo...

Madonna Nude Going On Auction Block At Christie's (NSFW PHOTO)

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 02.16.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK � Christie's auction house says a 30-year-old nude photo of Madonna, which earned her a $25 modeling fee, is expected to sell for at least ...

Christie's Slashing Costs, Jobs As Art Market Slows

New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


LONDON -- When works by the British artist Damien Hirst sold for a record $127 million on the same day in September that Lehman Brothers filed for ban...

Art is a Versatile Tool; Use Your Collection to Your Advantage

Paul Klein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago


Paul Klein

A solid art collection is an amazing asset whose worth is invariably overlooked. Most collectors aren't honoring their collection, using it or enabling it to take care of them.

Lehman Boss Fuld To Put $20 Million Of Art Collection On The Block At Christie's Tonight

The Guardian | Julia Kollewe | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business


The bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers wants to sell at least $8m (�5.2m) worth of the art collection that once decorated its offices. The new...