Berners-Lee says NFTs are the "ideal way to package the origins behind the web"

The cost-cutting French telecommunications billionaire has formed Altice UK to buy a 12.1% stake in the company

The unique coin from 1933, part of a collection amassed by luxury shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman, sold at Sotheby's in New York yesterday

Institution says the work is being lent by the foundation that swooped in to rescue it when it was deaccessioned by the Newark Museum of Art

A museum sells art to balance its budget, a gorgeous Sargent goes unwanted, and a painting of a giraffe reaches high.

Plus, Heather Phillipson at Tate Britain and Ackroyd and Harvey on Joseph Beuys

Christie's and Sotheby's are starting to embrace what the social media platform has to offer

The evening of sales in New York totalled $439.6m, with Basquiat's Versus Medici topping the contemporary art offering at $50.8m and a new record for Leonor Fini

Sotheby's auction of the Texan rancher's collection totalled $157.2m and set new records for Kenneth Noland, Larry Rivers and Richard Diebenkorn

But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple

The sale this month will be the first time the auction house has accepted cryptocurrency as payment for a physical work of art

The collection of 18th-century porcelain was previously exhibited in Dutch museums

Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth

The painting's low estimate of $9m is ten times the artist's record at auction

Over 3,000 bidders purchased nearly 24,000 digital works in a three-day, multi-facted sale on Niftygateway

Montmartre painting was auctioned twice by Sotheby’s, after a bidder failed to have the necessary cash

Rare painting of a Montmartre street scene sold three times in the same auction

Cross-category relay sale brought in $176.2m against high estimate of $120.5m and culminated with surprise Basquiat announcement

A number of Indian artists made their auction debut this season, though several established names missed the mark

Our pick of the highlights from this month's auctions

The fashion designer, who died in 2019, was an enthusiastic collector of art and design

Montmartre windmill painting is on view with Sotheby’s for the first time since it left the easel

Or does the title belong to a crypto work by Pak, recently acquired by a Sotheby's specialist?

The rare work shows a distinctive pastoral side to the city's Montmartre neighbourhood

The group of predominantly post-war art, including works by Clyfford Still and Andy Warhol, will be sold over a series of sales this spring

Yesterday's auction saw auctioneer plugging the brand while wearing one of its watches. What might we see next—Edvard Munch sponsored by Bollinger?

Plus, Gerard Byrne on his work inspired by a Swedish diorama

A portrait of a Young man holding a roundel (around 1470-80) by the Renaissance master seemingly sold to a Russian buyer

The sale's other big ticket item, Young man holding a roundel (around 1470-80) by Sandro Botticelli, estimated to sell in excess of $80m, is still included