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US artist Ron English plans to whitewash the Banksy mural he bought at auction on Wednesday. English, who has been arrested several times for his artistic endeavours, is performing the […]
Apollo 11’s Lunar Module identification plate has top performed at a major auction of Neil Armstrong’s personal artefacts. The plate, which flew to the Moon’s surface aboard “Eagle” in the […]
A rare bottle of The Macallan has set a new record for a whisky at auction. The 750ml bottle of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60-Year-Old sold within estimate for […]
Video game lovers take note: we’re just a month away from the opening of a new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition will delve […]
Sotheby’s will feature a collection of original artwork from the wildly popular Hong Kong comic Old Master Q in a second dedicated auction. Created by Alphonso Wong in 1961 this […]
The Earnest-Gregory Dovetailed Goose – one of the most celebrated duck decoys in history – will sell at Copley Fine Art Auctions next month. It is the highlight of the third […]
The classic car market enjoyed its third consecutive month of growth in May, new figures from the Historic Auto Group (HAGI) reveal. The sector rose in value by 2.2% in May […]
Ronnie Barker’s original handwritten script for The Two Ronnies sketch “Four Candles” has auctioned this afternoon (June 1) for £28,000. Featuring the red ink handwriting of Barker, who was using […]
Thomas Schelling’s Nobel Prize has sold for $187,500 at Nate D Sanders’ May 31 online auction. The US arms control expert, who died in 2016 aged 95, was awarded the […]
Classic car investors enjoyed an encouraging April after a troubling first three months of 2018, according to the Historic Auto Group’s (HAGI) latest figures. The HAGI Top index, which tracks […]
Bonhams hosted its annual Monaco auction on May 11, with a 1993 McLaren-Cosworth MP4/8A F1 car raced by Aryton Senna achieving $5m. Senna raced this model to his sixth and […]
Christie’s has announced the sale of three hugely rare bottles of 1774 vin jaune in its upcoming Fine Wines sale in Geneva on May 26. Each is valued at up […]
Christie’s sale of David and Peggy Rockefeller’s American art collection raised an extraordinary $106.8m last night. That brings the total for the sale of the couple’s unparalleled estate sale to […]
The Saint Louis Science Center will play host to the Smithsonian’s travelling exhibition on the Apollo 11 Moon landings from April 14 to September 3. Titled Destination Moon: The Apollo […]
The original working manuscript to Alcoholics Anonymous’ legendary Big Book has sold for $2.4m. The text last sold for $992,000 at Sotheby’s in 2007. Controversy surrounded that first sale, as […]
