We harvested the Price Database to bring you the freshest crop of top lots. Auctioneer Elaine Kwok sold Jean-Michel Basquiat's Donut Revenge to a phone bidder represented by Eric Chang, Christie's ...

Even in these last weeks of 2021, the year still has an indeterminate feeling about it. In many ways, it began as an ugly coda to 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic was still unchecked by vaccines, which ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: It’s been a weird year. That was true in the art world, too, where prices soared despite an economic crisis, immersive experiences drew crowds during a global ...

“Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” a piece of digital artwork, finds itself alongside paintings made by the likes of Picasso, Rothko, van Gogh and Monet as one of the most expensive art pieces sold at ...

Jennifer Packer, Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (Breonna! Breonna!), 2020, on view at the Whitney. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photograph by Filip Wolak Somehow, New York galleries — places where art ...

Game graphics have come a long, long way in the last decade, but graphics alone don't make a beautiful game. Style, mood, and emotion can all be conveyed through a game's art direction, and can be ...

As we near the end of 2021, The Verge’s art team looked back on the past year to reflect on some of our favorite pieces. Our team produced a wide range of original art: from captivating photography of ...

People walk around the art piece ‘Compassion and Equanimity’ by Vanessa German during the Art Basel Miami Beach fair at Miami Beach Convention Center. CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EP ...

Sometimes a year becomes a marker in social history, and 2021 shall be forever known as the year when right-wing domestic terrorists attacked the U.S. Capitol, leaving dead bodies and a scandalized ...

The art critics of The Times select their favorites from this year’s crop of art books. By Holland Cotter Roberta Smith Jason Farago and Siddhartha Mitter In a lockdown year, with travel reduced, ...