For the fifth consecutive year, Heritage Auctions set an annual sales record, clearing $2.15 billion in 2025.

Every month in The Hammer, art-industry veteran Simon de Pury lifts the curtain on his life as the ultimate art-world insider, his brushes with celebrity, and his invaluable insight into the inner ...

Hindman and Freeman’s auction houses announced that they have merged to create a new heavyweight player at the top of the middle-tier market. Altogether, the two auction houses have six salesrooms and ...

Estate-planning professionals may need to establish an appropriate holding and/or liquidation strategy for estates that include significant assets in art and antiquities. To accomplish this goal, they ...

As we head into the last week of December, we get to see how certain industries fared throughout the year. One that had a pretty spectacular 2022? Auctions. With almost $18 billion in cumulative sales ...

A rare bottle of bourbon — with deep ties to the Chicago Blackhawks, the Wirtz family and historic distillers — sold last ...

Francis Bacon 'Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus' (1981) Oil on canvas. Triptych: Each panel: 78 in. x 58 in. The top two auction giants were clobbered by the shutdown of the global art ...

The word “auction” evokes the swift chatter of an auctioneer, the reserved murmurs of a live crowd of spectators and bidder and the smack of a gavel indicating a closed bid. At least it used to. Now, ...