Christie's 21st century auction had deep bidding if few fireworks. Some results were a throwback to an earlier time.

Francis Bacon’s 'Study for Head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer' (1967) led Phillips's sale, selling for $16 million.

Sotheby's sold an astonishing $706 million worth of art in New York on Tuesday night. Katya Kazakina crunched the numbers.

Billionaire couple Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos sponsor the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2026 Costume Institute ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) has returned a Buddhist scroll painting, The Tenth King of Hell, to Sinheungsa ...

Decades after archaeologists became aware of Semiyarka, on the Kazakh Steppe, an international team has initiated excavations ...

In 1973, with the deep wisdom of his mid-20s, Ronnie Wood helped pen the lyrics: “I wish that I knew what I knew now, when I was younger.” They were for the song, “Ooh La La,” a classic for Wood’s ...

The top lot of the week was a Klimt portrait from the collection of Leonard Lauder at Sotheby's. It set a new auction record ...

Leonard Lauder Collection helped Sotheby's reach the highest evening total in its history. A Klimt portrait fetched $236.4 ...

"Bad Bridget," a research project about the crimes of Irish immigrant women that was turned into a museum show, will become a ...

A pair of chaconnes that were first discovered in the 1990s have now been linked to the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach.

A new Bridget Jones sculpture in London's Leicester Square honors film's favorite binge-drinking, chain-smoking journalist.