- March 7, 2005 | Feature
- She Can't Be Bought
You want a Mehretu? A Hirst? A Koons? Fat chance. A much-watched lawsuit is exposing the painful truth of this overheated market: It takes more than money to buy a hot piece of art.
- April 12, 2004 | Feature
- Master Class
Too much beige: interior decorator Albert Hadley has some strong words for young designers.
- March 15, 2004 | Feature
- The Loyalist
A friend defends a friend.
- November 13, 2000 | Feature
- Bidding Wars: Go Ask Alice
- November 6, 2000 | Feature
- Bidding Wars: Phillips Scores Star Gaveler
- October 23, 2000 | Feature
- Social Justice: Artful Dodgers
- October 2, 2000 | Feature
- A Bid Too Far
Aggressive auction houses are making a grab for a bigger slice of the art pie, especially the piping-hot contemporary market. Can dealers compete in a bubble that produces $1.7 million for porcelain kitsch? Or will everyone take a bath?
- March 20, 2000 | Feature
- Prix Fixe?
The price-fixing scandal embroiling the world's two most venerable auction houses is more than indecorous -- it might mean actual jail time. And it also raises the question: Does a true gentleman turn state's evidence?
- January 24, 2000 | Feature
- A Cool Hand and a Keno Eye
Talk about great performances: Antiques Roadshow has become public TV's top-rated program and made stars of dealers Leigh and Leslie Keno. Now they're riding a seller's market ($8.25 million for a Queen Anne secretary?) right into the Winter Antiques Show.