□ Saturday, 1 Mar 2008

Sotheby's auction triumphs over art market gloom
An art sale of contemporary masterpieces, including works by Warhol and Bacon, fetched more than £95m at a Sotheby's auction last night. More...

Paralyzed By Art
Teddy Greenspan is a longtime art collector who does not suffer doubt. He is a bond salesman at Libertas Partners, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and he and his wife, Emily, recently created an art consulting company in Bedford, New York, called tag-arts. More...

□ Thursday, 28 Feb 2008

Francis Bacon's Study of Nude with Figure in a Mirror Sells For $39.7 Million at Sotheby's
Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art tonight achieved Ј95,030,000 ($189,424,299), the highest total ever for any sale of Contemporary Art held in Europe, against a pre-sale estimate of Ј72,025,000-Ј102,855,000. Records were set for six artists. More...

□ Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008

Sotheby's 4th-Quarter Profit Jumps 46% as Sales Surge
Sotheby's, one of the two largest art sellers, said fourth-quarter profit soared 46 percent on higher auction totals in New York and London and an influx of new buyers. More...

Two Impressive Works From Watts Gallery Lead Christie's Victorian And Traditionalist Sale
Christie’s announce that they will offer two impressive works at the auction of Victorian and Traditionalist Art on 5 June 2008 in London; Jasmine by Albert Joseph Moore (estimate: Ј600,000-800,000)... More...

£1.4m art sale to fix leaking roof
A small museum with a disastrously leaking roof is to sell two major paintings to safeguard the future of its collection. More...

Russian Art Show In London Sets Bad Precedent
LONDON’S Royal Academy of Arts is drawing excited crowds with its exhibition “From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 From Moscow and St. Petersburg.” More...

□ Monday, 25 Feb 2008

A Thoroughly Modern Monet Bridges The Old and The New at Christie's New York
Christie’s International is delighted to announce the sale of Claude Monet’s Le Pont du chemin de fer а Argenteuil, one of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands. Painted in 1873... More...

□ Friday, 22 Feb 2008

Fisk chief says fiscal woes are near end
Fisk University President Hazel O'Leary told a judge Wednesday that the school is ready and able to fund renovations to its Carl Van Vechten Gallery, which has housed the school's Alfred Stieglitz Collection of modern art. More...

□ Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008

Sotheby's Spring Sale of Indian Art, To Be Held in New York on March 19
Sotheby’s spring sale of Indian Art in New York will be held on March 19, 2008, and will include important Modern paintings by M.F. Husain, J. Swaminathan, Rameshwar Broota, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, Ganesha Pyne and Arpita Singh, among others. More...

□ Tuesday, 19 Feb 2008

Swiss Police Find Stolen Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh Paintings in Zurich
Swiss police announced they have found two of the four works stolen last week from the E. G. Bührle Collection. More...

□ Sunday, 17 Feb 2008

Sotheby's To Hold Second London Sale of Rusian Contemporary Art
Following Sotheby’s hugely successful pioneering London sale of Russian Contemporary Art in February, 2007 – the Company’s best-ever year for sales of Russian Art – on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Sotheby’s will hold its second ever sale in this category in London. More...

The (Red) Auction Raises Over $40 Million To Fight Aids In Africa - 17 Records Achieved
Tonight, on the evening of Valentine’s Day, over $40 million was raised to fight AIDS in Africa in an historic auction - the most significant charity auction of Contemporary Art ever - organized by Bono, Damien Hirst, Sotheby’s... More...

□ Saturday, 16 Feb 2008

Impressionist and Modern Art Mid-Season Sale at Christie's
The Impressionist and Modern Art mid-season sale at Christie's Rockefeller realised $3,686,500 and was 97% sold by value, 91% by lot. More...

□ Friday, 15 Feb 2008

Missing Basquiat art reappears in NYC
NEW YORK - An $8 million painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been located in a Manhattan warehouse after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil, federal prosecutors said. More...