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.

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 ...

After years of declining sales, records set from major collections (Klimt, Kahlo) primed the auction houses for a rebound at ...

In 1989, as the art market roared, the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote deliciously about attending his very first auction, a marquee November sale in New York at Christie’s. He saw “finely tailored ...