Sotheby’s accepts cryptocurrency as Banksy art sells for $12.9M

It is the first piece of physical art sold by a major auction house paid for using cryptoBitcoin and Ether were the chosen cryptocurrencies for payment on a physical work of art at the auction house. Sotheby’s, thanks to an agreement with Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange platforms in the world, announces the new cryptocurrency payment option for …

3 Points Of View

07.12.19 Leonards Art announces the exhibition 3 Points of View, featuring new paintings and works by artists, Constanze Waeger, Twolflü, and Kelita Roza. This collection focuses on the multidimensional behaviour of light, lines and forms bringing together various perspectives on the more nuanced experiences of life.

Double Play

07.11.19 Features an extended collection of works by LA II and Luke & Mandy. This exhibition brings together rhythmic landscapes, by street artist LA II alongside Luke & Mandy’s ethereal photographs.

Looking back – The booming art market in 2018

2018 was a bumper year for the contemporary art market, showing significant growth quarter on quarter from May 2017. Most significantly, it marked the first fiscal year in which the market’s main indicators were all positive: the global auction turnover grew by around 20%, the rate of unsold art remained steady at 39%, the volume of total transactions grew by …

$14.7 M. KAWS Painting Smashes Auction Record in Hong Kong

The auction world’s exclusive eight-figure club has a new member. On Monday night at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a painting by the artist KAWS (aka Brian Donnelly) sold for a whopping $14.7 million in U.S. dollars, a new auction record for the artist. The result came at Sotheby’s “NIGOLDENEYE® Vol. 1” sale, with The Kaws Album (2005) soaring past its estimate of $760,000–$1 …

Little Angel Was Here: A Keith Haring Collaborator Makes His Mark

In the summer of 1982 the artist Keith Haring and his companion, Juan Dubose, painted a mural of Haring’s now signature figures, flanked by atoms and three-eyed smiling faces, on the remains of a handball court near Houston Street and the Bowery on the Lower East Side. Rendered in Day-Glo orange, neon green, yellow and hot pink, the work took …