Posts by Category: Art

on 23 November

Billionaire Ken Griffin Pays $43.2M for First-Print Copy of U.S. Constitution

Ken Griffin is back in the news this autumn. The bon vivant billionaire investor took to a Sotheby’s auction this month where he was last person standing during a short...

3658 November 23, 2021 Art more

on 09 November

MSCHF Selling 1,000 Andy Warhol Sketches—But Only One of Them Is Real

Brooklyn-born arthouse hothouse MSCHF — short for mischief — lived up to its name again this fall when it challenged the art world’s capricious form of dollar valuation and absolute...

2866 November 9, 2021 Art more

on 19 October

Banksy’s Shredded Painting Fetches $25.4M at Auction

Peripatetic street artist Bansky is back in the art world news this fall with another high-dollar sale. His work Love is in the Bin went to a new bidder. The...

2737 October 19, 2021 Art more

on 18 May

Basquiat’s ‘In This Case’ Fetches $93.1M at Auction

A famous painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold at auction in New York this week for nearly nine figures. The work, titled In This Case and completed in 1983, went under...

4671 May 18, 2021 Art more

on 16 March

Digital Collage Fetches $69.3M at Auction; Payment Made Using Cryptocurrency

A work by artist Beeple—born Mike Winkelmann—that began as a career development project in 2007 and became a massive and complex piece called ‘Everydays’ sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million...

4929 March 16, 2021 Art more