Most expensive bottle of whisky leaves us tipsy, selling for $2.7 million.

Jonny Fowle, Sotheby’s global head of whisky, holds a bottle of The Macallan 1926, which sold Saturday for $2.7 million. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby’s Forget chardonnay with turkey this Thanksgiving. One adventurous and deep-pocketed enthusiast could well be serving the most valuable bottle of whisky in the world at their holiday feast. Although that […]

Picasso’s ‘Femme à la montre’ sells for nearly $140 million, highlighting historic $425 million Emily Fisher Landau Collection

The sale of The Emily Fisher Landau Collection was historic in more ways than one. On Nov. 8, it became the most valuable collection devoted to a woman collector when all 31 lots of the evening auction at Sotheby’s sold for a combined $406.4 million. The following afternoon, an additional 80 lots sold for $18.3 […]

Fans Show Freddie Mercury a ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ in Sotheby Auction

Freddie Mercury and Queen at Wembley Stadium -1986 -PHOTOGRAPH DENIS-OREGAN © By Kele Johnson In my teenage years, I loved Queen. I thought that Freddie Mercury, with his bombastic stage presence, charisma, and phenomenal vocals, embodied the wonderfully brilliant weirdness of the ’70s. As an adult, I came to appreciate the unbelievable once-in-a-lifetime songwriting, the […]