City Room: The Red Campaign Comes to Sothebyâs
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The Red campaign to fight H.I.V./AIDS in Africa had focused on branding everyday consumer products. On Thursday night at Sotheby's, the campaign turned to a high-end art world.
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About 170 old master paintings returned to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a prominent Dutch dealer who fled Amsterdam in 1940, are to be offered at Christieâs.
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Foreign collectors want them. Newly minted local millionaires want them. The rise and rise of the country's modern artists
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A painting by Francis Bacon, given to London's Royal College of Art in return for rent, is expected to fetch up to Â£9m at auction.
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Collectors have consigned hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of art for the November sales in New York.
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Three notable exhibitions on the Upper East Side pivot around Minimalism, one of modern artâs most enduringly popular styles.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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The market for contemporary and post-war art is continuing apace as evidenced by a healthy result, and in particular another record for Mark Rothko, at Sotheby's on Tuesday.
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Pray or pay. At dozens of Italian churches struggling to preserve art treasures from Byzantine mosaics to Baroque paintings, that is the choice many visitors must make.
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Lovers of Kennedy lore will get a rare chance at owning some common possessions of late President John F. Kennedy and his family in an auction of art, furniture and other effects from their homes.
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A small but influential number of celebrity architects are considering selling their archives as they continue to work.
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It's not often that you come across a Caravaggio or Van Gogh while walking around London's Soho, but for the next 12 weeks, the National Gallery is taking its masterpieces to the streets. In a bid to give the public a taste of the collection, the gallery has hung life-sized reproductions around the capital. Each painting is framed and accompanied by an information plaque, and passersby can phone a number for an audio guide of the works. Here's how Londoners  reacted to the famous works on their doorstep ...
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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
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One of the most distinctive buildings in The City financial district of London, the Swiss Re Tower or &quot;Gherkin&quot;, has gone up for sale.
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The famous painting isn&#39;t exactly the type most people want in their home. The image is too grim and full of existential angst.
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A top London gallery owner and   international auctioneers on Wednesday announced plans to cash   in on the booming contemporary art market ahead of an annual   fair that attracts hundreds of collectors to the city.
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Strong sales for impressionist and modern works were evident this week at New York's premier auction houses, with Paul Gauguin's "Maternite (II)" bringing in &#36;39.2 million and Claude Monet's "London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog" &#36;20.1 million.