Francis Bacon’s 'Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer' (1967) led Phillips's sale, selling for $16 million.

Sotheby's sold an astonishing $706 million worth of art in New York on Tuesday night. Katya Kazakina crunched the numbers.

Billionaire couple Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos sponsor the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2026 Costume Institute ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) has returned a Buddhist scroll painting, The Tenth King of Hell, to Sinheungsa ...

Decades after archaeologists became aware of Semiyarka, on the Kazakh Steppe, an international team has initiated excavations ...

Leonard Lauder Collection helped Sotheby's reach the highest evening total in its history. A Klimt portrait fetched $236.4 ...

A new Bridget Jones sculpture in London's Leicester Square honors film's favorite binge-drinking, chain-smoking journalist.

The top lot of the week was a Klimt portrait from the collection of Leonard Lauder at Sotheby's. It set a new auction record ...

Despite all the hallmarks of recent cautious seasons—namely heavy guarantees—the auction was a bonafide success, marked by serious competition.

A pair of chaconnes that were first discovered in the 1990s have now been linked to the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach.

John Oliver launched an auction to benefit public broadcasting, following major budget cuts. A Bob Ross painting is priced at ...

Marc Chagall’s Le songe du Roi David (1966), also consigned by the Kawamura Memorial Museum, was estimated at $8 million to ...