On Wednesday night, Sotheby's held a solid sale evening sale of modern art in New York. Here's a deep dive into the data.

Janette Beckman, courtesy of the Museum of Pop Culture. Take, for instance, the first hip-hop show in London—the New York ...

A Sotheby's sale of modern art in New York totaled a within-estimate $303.9 million, led by Matisse and Picasso.

Willem de Kooning blurred the boundaries of drawing and painting, as a show at the Art Institute of Chicago makes clear.

Two works were withdrawn just before the sale—a Richard Prince and an Albert Oehlen—but all 41 of the remaining lots found buyers, and the house pulled in $115.2 million with fees, near the $121.7 ...