As we settle into a new year and a fresh auction season begins, the question looms: can the major houses turn the tide? Adrien Meyer selling the top lot of the evening, Rene Magritte’s L’empire des ...

Financial markets are an endless two-way auction, where the price is discovered through the negotiation of buyers and sellers. The stock and futures markets, like any market, exist to facilitate trade ...

In 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the earliest known surviving photograph with a camera obscura, a “dark room” that anticipated the camera and required an exposure of several days.

The Cedars in Graeagle, Calif., was previously on the market for $55 million. It will be auctioned off July 16 to 19 with Concierge Auctions with no reserve. As the real estate market has slowed over ...

The analysis takes two related approaches: in the first, we examine macro data to identify significant shifts in artists’ presence and results at auction in the past 20 years; in the second, we ...