Click here to view highlights from the auction room, where the Mark McDonald collection was offered at Sotheby’s New York headquarters on March 10th.

Reyne stops for a visit with Kurt Nauck, and expert and dealer in records. Reyne discusses with Kurt how to discover if a record holds any value or not. Kurt gives some basic tips on what to look for, such as the general condition of the grooves as well as the popularity of the record — the fewer records that were pressed, the more expensive they will be now. For more information, including Kurt’s ‘Want List’, visit his website at www.78RPM.com.

This April, Sotheby’s Hong Kong is privileged to present at an evening auction an extraordinary private collection of contemporary Chinese Art that typifies the birth and evolution of the Chinese Avant-Garde. Highlights of the Collection include seminal works from Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guanyi and Zheng Peili.

Sotheby’s sale of the celebrated collection of Islamic and Indian Art assembled by the late scholar and collector Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008) will take place in two parts, with Part One, Arts of the Islamic World, taking place on 6 April, and Part Two, Arts of India, taking place on 31 May. Assembled over a period of half a century, this remarkable collection reflects the passion and taste of a true scholar-connoisseur, and includes a fascinating range of paintings, calligraphy and works of art from the Islamic and Indian traditions.

Among a host of highly important and rare items to be offered in Part One is an illustrated leaf from one of the most famous illustrated Persian manuscripts ever produced, the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, depicting Faridun in the Guise of a Dragon Tests His Sons (lot 78). This magnificent royal manuscript is acknowledged as one of the supreme illustrated manuscripts of any period or culture.

Marketplace Auction March 23rd & 24th, 2011

Building upon the very strong results of Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art sales worldwide, Sotheby’s New York continues its commitment to presenting the finest and rarest examples of Chinese art to the market. One of the outstanding highlights of the sale on March 23rd is an Imperial battle painting commemorating the victory over Nian rebel forces, commissioned by the Guangxu Emperor. Two highlights from the ceramics section are an exquisite 14th Century white ewer, and a Qianlong mark and period reticulated revolving vase. Also included in this season’s sale is an Imperial ‘zitan’ long table, adorned with finely carved leaf-tip scrolls; a rare celadon jade brushpot carved in deep relief with ‘Hundred Boys’; and an album by Dong Qichang transcribing the biography of Wang Xiangqian’s family.

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Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from its Under the Influence auction in New York. Included will be Stephen Colbert’s portrait re-contextualized by Shepard Fairey, Andres Serrano, and discussed by Steve Martin and Frank Stella.

Also featuring works by:

KEHINDE WILEY, ARANDALASCH, ANSELM REYLE,

STERLING RUBY, SUBODH GUPTA, JACOB KASSAY, MARK

GROTJAHN, DAN COLEN, KAREN KLIMNIK