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Auctions
The business behind celebrity auctions
Aug 10, 2018
What started in 1970 with a massive MGM auction has turned into a multimillion-dollar global business.
Rockefeller auction at Christie's expected to bring in $500 million or more for charity
May 1, 2018
The items at the auction include everything from David Rockefeller’s gold cuff links to Picasso paintings that were once owned by writer Gertrude Stein.
That $100 million Leonardo da Vinci painting might not even be by Leonardo da Vinci
Nov 15, 2017
But art critic Blake Gopnik explains why that might not be the right question to ask.
First map of Disneyland sells for $708,000 at auction
by
Olga Oksman
Jun 26, 2017
It was created by Walt Disney and fellow illustrator Herb Ryman in just one weekend to woo theme park investors in 1953.
Art auction at Christie's sets record for expensive art
May 13, 2015
But is the price tag more about setting a record than the art itself?
Auction houses filled with high-end art – and drama
Jan 20, 2015
The art world, "where insider trading ... is completely legal and actually frequently practiced."
The first microchip goes on auction, no one buys it
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David Gura
Jun 20, 2014
The first integrated circuit was estimated to sell for $1 million.
For public good, not for profit.
Would you bid on a $1,200 bottle of beer?
by
Kai Ryssdal
Feb 24, 2014
Raising paddles for classic ales, stouts, and IPAs at Skinner auction house.
Sotheby's auctions blue diamond for a lot of green
Oct 7, 2013
Sotheby’s Hong Kong is auctioning the world’s largest round blue diamond, the Premier Blue, for $19 million dollars. There’s not much you can do with diamonds but they are always in demand.
Going once, going twice: The business of auctions
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Kai Ryssdal
Jul 16, 2013
Business is good at Christie's and a recovery in the art market has a lot to do with that.