Art Collecting

Becoming the second-most expensive Old Masters work ever auctioned.

That’s 100 times more than the present owner paid for it in 1982.

Master engraver Eddy Jacquet had his work cut out for him.

Fifty feet under the surface in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Underwater Museum of Art has 50 figures designed to attract reef fish.

Set in a 15th-century monastery, the waterside LOPUD-1483 is filled with noteworthy art and antiques—and has a panic room in the master suite.

Some of the outdoor sculptures are even up for grabs.

Unlike in past crises, gallery survival is less about size and more about digital nimbleness.

It’s a classic East Coast-West Coast battle.

These reads are worth a smidge more than a dollar a word.