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RM’s Collection Enters the Museum: What Does He Collect?
From the stage to the gallery, BTS leader RM brings nearly 150 works from his private collection to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where they are shown alongside works fro…
Ninety Years of Haut-Brion Cellar Treasures Fetch €3.4 Million
Château Haut-Brion sits in Pessac, just outside Bordeaux, within the Pessac-Léognan appellation. It is the only 1855 First Growth located outside the Médoc. The estate was recorded…
Lichtenstein’s Private Collection: From Collage Studies to Pop Sculpture
The works a Pop artist kept also preserve the decisions behind his images.This October, Sotheby’s New York is presenting works from the personal collection of Dorothy and Roy Licht…
Seven Milan Limited Editions, One Carefully Tiered Collection
Patek Philippe’s Watch Art Grand Exhibition opens in Milan today with seven limited-edition timepieces created for the host city. They are not variations on a single theme: the gro…
40 Years of Fashion, Preserved
Once fashion enters a museum, it is no longer only something to wear. To mark the 40th anniversary of its fashion museum, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents “Look! 40…
Four Rolex “Four Seasons” Daytonas Sell for US$49.4 Million
Four watches. Four seasons. A combined US$49.4 million. Rolex held its first brand charity auction in London on September 28, 2026, with Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo.…
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening Sale Totals HK$671.3M — What Actually Beat Expectations?
Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in Hong Kong totalled HK$671.3M (US$85.59M) on 28 September, with 46 lots sold and an 84% sell-through rate.Yoshitomo Nara’s Present…
New York Art Fairs Cool, but the Market Is Still Trading
Six fairs arrived in New York during the same fall week, and the clearest signal was not a broad recovery. Buyers were still active—but they were comparing prices far more carefull…
Christie's Launches a Pop Culture Department After $105.3 Million in Sales
Christie's has turned pop culture collecting from an occasional cross-category project into a permanent global business.On September 23, Christie's confirmed the launch of a dedica…
60 Parisian Treasures Sold for Nearly €39 Million: Inside a Complete 18th-Century World
This was not a group of 60 unrelated lots. It was one point of view, formed inside a Paris townhouse.Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares was born in Bolivia, the daughter of “Tin Kin…
Disney Lorcana Introduces Its First Serialized Cards: Just 23 of Each
Disney Lorcana is putting a visible number on scarcity for the first time.Ravensburger announced on September 22 that Into the Inkdark, arriving in Q1 2027, will introduce Lorcana'…
Christie’s Anime Auction: First Sale Hits $1.44M, Second Edition Returns in October
Christie’s second Anime Starts Here sale runs online from October 9 to 22, 2026. The first edition in March totaled $1,442,466 including buyer’s premium—more than four times its l…
88 Van Gogh Paintings, Together: Five Works to Look at Closely
From the warm light of a café to a swirling sky above a cypress tree, Van Gogh transformed familiar scenes into something extraordinary. Van Gogh, All Our Paintings at the Kröller…
236 Works at Christie’s New York: Five Artworks to See First
A rhythm in red. Colour shaped by folds. A figure in green. A bright river delta. A self-portrait assembled from five photographs. On October 1, 2026, Christie’s New York will off…
Monet Leads 28 Works to Auction: Five Highlights from the Schlumberger Collection
Monet’s garden, Cézanne’s sunset, Moreau’s imagined world—and Claudel’s dancers, caught in an embrace. On October 22, 2026, Sotheby’s Paris will offer 28 Impressionist and Modern…
Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog Watches: Hublot Unveils Red, Blue and Silver, Limited to 200 Each
Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog has arrived on the wrist. Unveiled on September 16, 2026, the Hublot Classic Fusion Balloon Dog comes in red, blue and silver, each limited to 200 pieces.…
Towns & Woods Curate for Sotheby’s: Nine Works, from Warhol to Condo
From the basketball court to the gallery: Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods are guest curators at Sotheby’s.Their selections go to auction in New York on October 7, with the exhi…
Vintage Watches on the New York Runway: Six Wrist Details at J.Press
A vintage watch finds its character on the wrist—and in the outfit around it.Wind Vintage supplied the vintage watches for the J.Press show in New York. We picked six to look at cl…