Paul Allen’s Art Collection Sets Record With $1.5 Billion Sale
Microsoft
co-founder
Paul Allen’s
estate made auction history on Wednesday when a group of 60 artworks from his estate sold for…
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Essay | Paul Allen’s Quest for Sunken Warships
On Nov. 9-10, Christie’s New York will auction off the art collection of
Paul Allen,
the late
Microsoft
co-founder. With more…
NFTs Exist in the Digital World. Art Collectors Want to Put Them on the Wall
Art collectors and cryptocurrency investors went wild last year buying art that exists only in the digital world. Now, Desiree Casoni, a collector in Key Biscayne, Fla., is trying to figure…
How Christie’s Is Pitching Its Expansion From Picassos to NFTs
The Christie’s auction house may summon images of richly-priced art, wealthy buyers with small paddles and intense specialists taking bids at a phone bank. But that’s been changing. This…
Internet’s Original Source Code Sold as NFT for $5.4 Million
The original files of the source code for the World Wide Web were sold Wednesday as a nonfungible token, or NFT, for $5.4 million, the latest in a string of digital collectibles to…
Artist Beeple Sold His NFT for $69 Million—But Has a Tough Time Breaking Into the Art World
Now, Mr. Winkelmann is opening up, revealing that he’s had a rocky entrée into the art establishment even though he currently ranks as the world’s third most-expensive living artist after…
Meet Wall Street’s Crypto Artist
Sarah Meyohas’s work at the intersection of art, technology and finance earned the contemporary artist fame with financiers and tech geeks. Her latest piece aims squarely at the crypto…
Samsung Family Art Trove Needs a Home, and Towns Are Vying to Adopt
SEOUL—The family behind the
Samsung
empire, aiming to reduce its nearly $11 billion inheritance-tax bill, is donating 23,000 Monets, Picassos, Dalis and other…