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.

While 2026 has brought a new escalation of global turmoil, from Venezuela to Iran, the art market has nonetheless entered the year with renewed confidence, and the first auctions of the season in ...

The two biggest auction houses recently released their 2025 numbers, showing a 17 percent sales jump at Sotheby's and a nearly 7 percent rise at Christie's. Now, a year-end report from art market ...

Adrien Meyer, Christie's global head of private sales, sells Magritte's "L'empire des lumieres" for $121,160,000 in November 2024. (photo courtesy Christie's) Public auction sales fell 25% in 2024 ...

This year marks the third in a row of declining auction sales, down 44 percent, or over $3 billion, from 2022—and the lowest total in at least a decade, excluding 2020, CNBC reported. Sales of postwar ...

The car collecting market has seen a significant transformation in recent years, with auction trends playing a crucial role in shaping its landscape. From the rise of online auctions to a renewed ...

Foreclosure auction volume in the second quarter of 2025 increased 19% from the same period last year and reached a two-year high point, according to Auction.com‘s newest Auction Market Dispatch ...

Auction sales have been declining for the third year in a row, as dealers, auctioneers and collectors ponder a deeper crisis in the art market. Auction sales for the first half of the year at ...