Category: Culture
Vancouver has its first Two-MICHELIN-Star restaurant. In the 2026 selection announced October 6, AnnaLena moved from One to Two Stars. Its current tasting-menu price is C$178 per guest, approximately US$125 at the October 6 exchange rate. That makes an interesting comparison with the city’s existing One-Star options: higher distinction does not necessarily mean the highest […]
Patek Philippe’s Watch Art Grand Exhibition in Milan is free to visit through October 18. Its seven limited-edition Milan watches are not: official U.S. prices span $43,761 to $874,200, and production runs range from five to 250 pieces. That makes the exhibition an unusual way to see watchmaking most visitors will never be offered the […]
Oheka Castle is famous enough to be recognized from a Taylor Swift video. The stranger part is what the October 27 auction actually includes. Oheka Castle has excellent celebrity shorthand. Taylor Swift filmed part of the “Blank Space” video there. The Long Island estate has also appeared in productions including Succession and Royal Pains, and […]
A $180 million Van Gogh estimate sounds like record territory. A roughly $120 million Cezanne estimate does not, at least not at first glance. Yet Sotheby’s says both paintings in the Blaquier-Arrieta collection could set new artist auction records when the 12-work group comes to New York on November 18. The reason is buried in […]
J.M.W. Turner’s Rome, From Mount Aventine sold at Sotheby’s in 2014 for £30.3 million, setting the artist’s auction record. The same painting is returning to Sotheby’s in London on December 9, 2026, with a presale expectation in the region of £50 million. Sotheby’s current lot page itself displays “Estimate Upon Request.” That comparison is striking, […]
The Mumbai craft institution has spent decades collaborating with global fashion houses. In 2026, the more revealing shift is not in the embroidery. It is in who gets named.
Christie’s will hold its first fine-art auction in Abu Dhabi on November 1. The interesting question is not whether the city can stage another prestige event. It is whether buyers and sellers are beginning to treat Abu Dhabi as a place to do business, not only a place to see art.
The 1997 sale, inflation and today’s estimate point to the same thing: the valuable part of this dress is the provenance that accumulated around it.
