Sotheby’s will pay more than $6 million to settle claims it helped clients avoid paying taxes on high-priced art from masters like Basquiat by pretending the big-money collectors were resellers.
Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, was sold at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday for $6.2 ...
"That's the first thing you think of when you think of Maurice Sendak and his legacy, is Where the Wild Things Are", ...
The billionaire owner of a $6.2 million banana taped to a wall offered to buy 100,000 bananas from the 74-year-old Upper East ...
The vendor who sold the banana received only a quarter for the fruit. The buyer of the conceptual work has offered his stand ...
Wool rented out a raw, 18,000-square-foot space on the 19th floor of a building in lower Manhattan to exhibit his strictly ...
Despite Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian selling for a staggering $6.2m, The Now and contemporary auctions in New York made 63% ...
Big sales during New York’s auction week—including a $121.2 million Magritte—made collecting seem fun again.
This year has seen some of the worst sales in decades for the art market, and the “Comedian” piece is unlikely to move the ...
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, ...