Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby’s

The price paid for the juvenile specimen of the 150-million-year old predatory dinosaur is the third-highest on record.

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Ferris Bueller’s Vest Hits the Auction Block. ‘Anyone, Anyone?’

Worn by Matthew Broderick in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the vest could fetch several hundred thousand dollars, according to Sotheby’s.

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Breuer Building Gets Landmark Status Before Sotheby’s Moves In

The modernist former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art had its interior designated for protection by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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India Seeks to Block Auction of Buddhist Religious Relics

A collection of jewels and holy relics is set to be auctioned by the family of a colonial-era English explorer. Now, the Indian government says it’s not theirs to sell.

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Private Island Comes on the Market in Italy

The sale of an island just off the coast of Bacoli, near Naples, has pit the quest for a rich investor against a more communal alternative.

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A 311-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin Sells for $11.25 Million at Sotheby’s

The money from the sale of the violin, which was once owned by the 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim, will benefit a scholarship program at the New England Conservatory.

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A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses

Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.

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A Ten Commandments Tablet Sells for More Than $5 Million at Auction

Sotheby’s called the stone the world’s oldest inscribed with the Ten Commandments, but some experts had raised questions about its provenance and authenticity.

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World’s Priciest Dinosaur Fossil Comes to Museum of Natural History

The billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who bought the stegosaurus fossil for $44.6 million, is loaning it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York for four years.

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Art Collector Who Bought a $6 Million Banana Offers to Buy 100,000 More

The vendor who sold the banana received only a quarter for the fruit. The buyer of the conceptual work has offered his stand a bigger payday, but logistical problems may be in the way.

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