NY art sales to tempt buyers with attractive prices (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Old Master painting sales will try to lure choosier buyers this month with lower price estimates as Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses adjust to a global art market dulled by the financial crisis.

Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary (Arts Journal)

A video recently posted on Sotheby's website, Contemporary Art Market: A Candid Look from the Inside , features a cast of five---the auction house's contemporary art team---looking chastened as they candidly discuss the disastrous November sales but try to calm market jitters by assuring sellers that "despite a worsening economic climate, if the right object comes to market, there's an enormous ...

Noncatalog sales open with some sparkle (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

The new year rings in more than a few significant changes and sales on the local auction scene.

Valuables taped on 'Antiques Roadshow 'locally (The Desert Sun)

When the producers of “Antiques Roadshow” decided to come to Palm Springs to tape three shows for its 13th season, they didn't expect to have such a lucrative day.

Madejski's Degas sculpture expected to make £12m (Evening Standard)

BUSINESSMAN Sir John Madejski is selling an important sculpture by French impressionist Edgar Degas. The Reading football club owner is to auction La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (the Little Dancer aged 14), one of the few casts of the groundbreaking work left in private hands.

Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary (Arts Journal)

Jim Zarroli , a business and economics reporter for National Public Radio (he's their Madoff man), did a segment today on museums' financial difficulties, with an emphasis on the National Academy situation.