Kelly Crow

The auction house, owned by highly leveraged billionaire Patrick Drahi, is pushing off payments, awaiting a financial lifeline from an Abu Dhabi fund.

The auction house, owned by highly leveraged billionaire Patrick Drahi, is pushing off payments, awaiting a financial lifeline from an Abu Dhabi fund.

The sovereign-wealth fund gets three board seats, giving a Middle Eastern royal family major cultural clout.

New York’s attorney general says the auction house helped eight collectors pose as art dealers to avoid paying taxes on art buys. Sotheby’s admits no wrongdoing.

Big sales during New York's auction week—including a $121.2 million Magritte—made collecting seem fun again.

Behind the restoration of Paris’s greatest landmark—and the controversies that nearly consumed it.

Behind the restoration of Paris's greatest landmark—and the controversies that nearly consumed it.

Billionaire owner François Pinault promoted Bonnie Brennan from within as the auction house seeks to shake off a market slowdown.

The world's biggest auction house just got a new boss.

Falling sales have cast a shadow over Sotheby’s and Christie’s, but the houses are betting big on younger collectors and luxury goods in 2025.