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It turns out Jeff Bezos' Washington state real-estate portfolio is worth $190 million, and includes five previously-unreported homes.

Christie’s New York staged a marathon two-and-a-half-hour sale of 20th-century art on Thursday night that netted $640.8 million.

Art dealers often distort the truth—but it's often nearly impossible to reveal how. In one particular case, we have receipts.

6 hours ago Founded in London in 1766, art auction house Christie’s is a symbol of yesteryear—and yet the company appears to be on the cutting edge. In March, Christie’s sold a collage by the digital artist Mike Winklemann, better known as Beeple, for 42,329 Ether, at the time the cryptocurrency equivalent of $69.3 million. The artwork was sold as a nonfungible token (NFT), a sort of certificate of authenticity minted on the ethereum blockchain. The sale was part of a larger boom market f...