Art Critic, Journalist and Filmmaker
The storied collection of Bahamas’ based billionaire financier Joe Lewis and that of his daughter Vivienne roared to £249.35/296.3 million with fees at Sotheby’s London on June 24, a record for any single owner sale in the UK. The twenty-five Continue reading
Andrew Crispo was a high-flying New York dealer until tax evasion and sex scandals brought him low. When David Hockney’s 1968 double portrait Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy failed to sell at Sotheby’s in 1985—bought in at $570,000 against a $650,000 reserve—few Continue reading
Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis The art market s surprising recovery continued yesterday (19 November) at Rockefeller Centre in New York, with Christie’s Continue reading
The house s total is up 42% from last year s equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney Last night (17 November), Christie s kicked off New York s marquee November auctions with its 20th-century evening sale, Continue reading
Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu said a legal team is pursuing the recovery of the painting once owned King Carol I of Romania Just one day before its Old Masters sale in New York, Christie’s pulled the auction s top lot, Continue reading
At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’ While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year-over-year, overall sales totals failed Continue reading
Back sometime in the 1990’s Walter was moving from his place on W. 14th Street in the aftermath of a divorce was having a kind of rummage sale of stuff from his studio apartment. I came by picked Continue reading
Lots of things took place (besides the suggestion of swallowing bleach) during COVID-19 times, and one of those critical anomalies was the overnight appearance on Instagram of untitled photographs under the moniker of Big Fusss (aka Andrew Mer). Without so Continue reading
Kicking off November s marquee evening sales, the house brought in a total of $268.6m from 49 lots Sotheby’s kicked off the November marquee auction season yesterday (18 November) with a double header. The evening began with the white glove, single-owner collection sale Continue reading
In this chapter of Assouline’s Culture Lounge, we’re dreaming about art with the founder of Ségalot LP and Christie’s former International Head of Contemporary Art, Philippe Ségalot, and the award-winning art critic, journalist, and filmmaker, Judd Tully. Philippe and Judd Continue reading