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Napoleonic jewels worn by French emperor's daughter sell for $1.65 million in Geneva

Marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death, Christie's auction house sold the nine imperial jewels adorned with sapphires and diamonds, which were from the collection of his adopted daughter Stephanie de Beauharnais.

Black artists dominate New York sales after growing visibility in galleries and a 'historical reevaluation'

American-born Jean-Michel Basquiat, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Black painter to headline both Christie's and Sotheby's main auctions, on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.

Wine aged for 14 months at the International Space Station is on sale for $1 million

It left for the ISS on 2 November 2019 in the Cygnus capsule and returned on 14 January 2021 aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule.

Model Emily Ratajkowski to sell NFT at Christie's in bid to establish ownership over images of self

The piece will be titled 'Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution' and every time her NFT is resold, she will receive an undisclosed cut.

Sotheby's hosts first NFT sale where artist Pak's 'The Fungible' collection sells for $16.8 million

NFT stands for non-fungible token, an authentication certificate meant to ensure that ownership of a digital work — animations, videos, photos or music, for example — cannot be forged or otherwise manipulated.

Will NFT trend in art prove to be next frontier in trading, or merely a new form of 'tulip mania'?

Since the 17th century, tulip mania has become a byword for the irrationality of financial bubbles.

How two crypto investors spent $70 million on a Beeple piece, securing their place in art history

Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran describe the nerve-racking final moments of the online auction for a collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple.

Artist Beeple on selling NFT collage for a record $70M: 'People are trying to look for some scam; I don't see it'

Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, spoke with AP about his auction result, NFTs and how the crypto art boom is affecting him and other artists who haven’t previously had a way to guarantee exclusive ownership of digital works, which by their nature can normally be freely copied.

Decoding the allure of crypto art: Manufactured scarcity, the social construct of value drive demand for NFTs

Some crypto artists, who have felt excluded by the mainstream art world, say they have found more support in the crypto community and can now earn a living making art.

Digital art by Beeple sells for $69.4 million at Christie's amid NFT boom

Christie’s did not identify the buyer of the artwork, which consists of 5,000 individual digital pictures stitched together that Beeple created — one each day — since May 2007.