[ad_1] Barron’s deputy editor Alex Eule and ‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panelists discuss growing concerns over gateways to online gambling and the week’s stock picks. Video game maker Electronic Arts – known for The Sims, Madden NFL, Plants vs. Zombies and more – is going private in a deal valued at roughly $55 billion. Saudi Arabia’s Public
[ad_1] When you picture an art investor, what do you see? Probably a wealthy individual in an auction house or a private gallery, perhaps surrounded by priceless masterpieces. While this stereotype has been true for as long as art investment has been around, it is rapidly changing thanks to innovative fractional investment platforms like Masterworks
[ad_1] Art Cologne 2015. Photo: Koelnmesse. Germany has one of the liveliest and most eclectic collector communities in the world. As Europe’s largest economy and most populous country, there’s a large number of art patrons with money to spend. Art Cologne, the world’s oldest and most important art fair, kicks off today with its press preview
[ad_1] The most expensive painting in 2021: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Femme assise près d’une fenêtre’ which was sold for $103.4 million in May 2021 at Christie’s New York live evening sale. AFP via Getty Images The rich are spending more than ever on art and antiques. The average spend in the first half of 2021 reached
[ad_1] Justin Sun, the Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought Maurizio Cattelan’s banana sculpture Comedian for $6.2 million last week, said he wants to “thank” the vendor who sold the fruit. It is also likely that he, too, read the New York Times report about the man who sold that piece of fruit to a Sotheby’s representative
[ad_1] The NFT explosion would have been quieter if it hadn’t been for Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5,000 Days becoming the third most expensive artwork by a living artist ever sold at auction. But for that, someone had to buy it. MetaKovan, aka Vignesh Sundaresan, is not a conventional big-money art collector; until his winning
[ad_1] With the year coming to a close, investors have become more conservative with where they put their money. The importance of developing a good investment portfolio is indisputable; thus, options like stocks are no longer just a Wall Street problem. If you have joined the Oxford club, your primary concern is probably weighing between
[ad_1] French telecom billionaire and art collector Xavier Niel has bought the historic Hotel Lambert in Paris—which has hosted the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau at literary salons—for more than €200 million ($226 million). It will be used, according to Bloomberg, as the headquarters for Niel’s cultural foundation. The 43,000-square-foot townhouse was built from 1640 to
[ad_1] Billionaire art collector and financier Kenneth Griffin has stepped forward to confirm he is the new owner of the rare copy of the U.S. Constitution that sold for a record-shattering $43.2 million at Sotheby’s last night. He may also now be enemy number one among the more than 17,000 people who contributed to ConstitutionDAO, the
[ad_1] Bouvier’s father, Jean-Jacques, started as an apprentice at Natural Le Coultre in 1953. In 1982, he was able to buy the company. Yves, having dropped out of college, joined him, and brought his appetite for risk to the unlikely domain of freight. Bouvier combines a Calvinist reserve with a delight in doing the unthinkable.