Editor's Pick

FILE - Artist Maurizio Cattelan's piece of art "Comedian" hangs on display during an auction preview at Sotheby's in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP
Viral banana artwork has sold again — this time for $6.24 million
Maurizio Cattelan’s viral creation, titled “Comedian,” has proven a sound investment for one collector: One of the artwork’s three “editions” smashed estimates to sell for $6.24 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York on Wednesday.

The Latest in Art

The Danner Memorial Window, one of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s greatest masterpieces, achieved $12.48M, setting a new auction record for Tiffany Studios.
Courtesy Sotheby's
Stained-glass Tiffany window sells for record $12.48 million at auction
Italy's Carabinieri presents recovered Etruscan archaeological artefacts, in Rome, Italy, November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
Remo Casilli/Reuters
Italy recovers Etruscan artifacts dug up by ‘amateurish’ tomb raiders
Nov 20, 2024
René Magritte's L'empire des lumières
Courtesy of Chrstie’s
René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million
Nov 20, 2024
Vladimir Shklyarov, pictured in London in October 2008
Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov dies after falling from building
Nov 18, 2024
Celestial dancer (Devata). Central India, Madhya Pradesh. mid-11th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
US returns looted antiquities worth $10 million to India
Nov 15, 2024
Doucai ‘Chicken cup’, Ming dynasty, Chenghua reign, 1465-1487.
The Trustees of the British Museum
British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion
Nov 14, 2024
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments.
Courtesy Sotheby's
Oldest stone tablet inscribed with Bible’s Ten Commandments to be sold at auction
Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy and her book "Orbital" after winning the Booker Prize award 2024, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Alberto Pezzali/AP
British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize
padma-beach-ejg-00220-1126-final.jpg
Ethan James Green
‘Refresh and reveal’: Celebrities strip off for latest edition of star-studded Pirelli calendar
Bouchardon_Bust_No_Background_for_web copy.jpg
Sotheby's
Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
Modern and contemporary fake artworks including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol are displayed following an Italian Carabinieri operation against a large-scale pan-European forgery network, in Pisa, Italy, November 9, 2024.
Carabinieri/Handout/Reuters
Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy
clipped thumbnail - ai-real-pic-astray-intv-fst062806pseg1-cnni-biz-fast - CNN ID 20750160 - 00:00:34;05
• Video 2:19
Clipped From Video
Video How a real picture won an AI photography competition 2:19
Title: ‼️BREAKING: No Cheese Gromit! King Charles Portrait Redecorated‼️ @RoyalFamily ‼️Find out why King Charles, Patron of the RSPCA should ask them to drop the Assured Scheme -> https://t.co/pTneW0QCWf 👈 https://t.co/jYLHFuxtHB
Animal Rising/X
Video Video shows King Charles’ portrait being vandalized by activists 0:51
Jun 11, 2024
The Persian Version still
Video Why filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz unearthed her family’s secrets for ‘The Persian Version’ 11:41
Mar 20, 2024
Lion dance NYC
CNN
Video ‘Nothing to be embarrassed about’: How Asian Americans take pride in their identities 2:39
Feb 12, 2024
108070-LionDanceGymnastics-1
Video Daredevil stunts and elaborate costumes: Inside the competitive world of lion dancing 2:51
Feb 10, 2024
"Under the Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty six views of Mount Fuji"
Katsushika Hokusai
Video The artisans keeping Japan’s woodblock print tradition alive 2:07
Jan 31, 2024
Takashi Murakami profile 4
Alex Maeland
Video Takashi Murakami’s artistic influences 3:05
Jan 31, 2024
yayoi kusama animation 1
• Video 2:35
Video Why is artist Yayoi Kusama obsessed with dots? 2:35

More

Ai-Da at the United Nations 4.jpg
Sotheby’s
AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing that ‘challenges what it is to be human’ sets record, selling for $1.08 million
A magnificent and exceptionally rare pair of wucai 'fish' jars and covers, Marks and period of Jiajing
Sotheby’s
Rare pair of Ming Dynasty jars smash auction estimate, selling for $12.5 million
Svalbard_Cecilia-Blomdahl-3.jpg
Cecilia Blomdahl
What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth
Charli XCX shared her new remix album with a few hundred fans at a special event at Storm King in New Windsor, New York, on Oct. 10, 2024.
Maria M. Silva/Albany Times Union/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images
Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life
Director TIM BURTON and MICHAEL KEATON on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures’ comedy, “BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE,”
Parisa Taghizadeh/Warner Bros.
The enduring allure of Tim Burton’s macabre world
Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha
‘This is what it means to be from Gaza’: Poet captures people’s stories of life, love and loss
10222024_ AlayoAkinkugbe_guest_editor_AlayoAkinkugbe.jpg
Illustration by Kate Copeland
Art historian and curator Alayo Akinkugbe on reframing Blackness
Frieze-London-(Artist-to-Artist)_2024_install-3_300dpiL.jpg
Mark Blower
For Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku every painting has two sides