Art & Collecting
The Canary in the Mineshaft
Where the art market leads, the stock market often follows. If what’s been going on at Sotheby’s lately is any kind of indicator, there are hard times to come, says Ivan Lindsay
Movers and Sheikhas
Sophie McBain on the influential princesses of the ruling Gulf-state families who are stepping up to promote and nurture an emerging art scene
Bu-gat-ti-ful!
Parmigiani Fleurier’s sportscar-inspired creation sure is one hell of a watch. It goes from nought to 60 seconds in exactly one minute, says James Gurney
Schiele goes for £25m at Sotheby's
Last night in a packed saleroom Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale was led by Egon Schiele’s 1914 cityscape Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II)/Houses with Laundry (Suburb II), which sold for £24,681,250/$40,099,627/€27,635,665 (est. £22-30 million/$35.4 – 48.5 million), almost double the previous record for the artist at auction
Horse Sense
You can put your money on a horse but it may well fall off. Far better to put it on a painting, says Steve King
Evill/Frost sale smashes records
Last night the first session of Sotheby’s sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British art ever to come to the market, The Evill/Frost Collection, fetched a total of £37,464,300, doubling the pre-sale high estimate
All's Fair in Love and Draw
Josh Spero reports from ART HK on whether Hong Kong can be the next cultural capital of the world
Not Just Another Manic Monday
Galanthophiles are well-known to gardeners, but gala-philes are a new genus. With an exclusive story on the RHS Fellowship, William Cash explains how never to miss Monday night at Chelsea again
Touch of Evill
The collection was amassed by Evill and left to his Honour Frost, his orphaned ward, whose death has brought this wonderful hotchpotch of paintings, drawings, furniture and porcelain to market
FinAlt: A passion for art investing
This spring, Steve Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors sold an Andy Warhol painting ("Liz #5") for a cool $27 million
Unbillable Hours
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