Category: Collectors and Collections

A Custom Watch Order Started as a Fun Idea. Then It Became More.

Yoni Ben-Yehuda said the mix of numerals on the dial of his watch, nicknamed Timepeace, represented the importance of finding common ground.
Billy Joel Fans Will Mark His 150th MSG Concert With All His Merch

The singer-songwriter is scheduled to perform his 150th show at Madison Square Garden, and fans are ready to collect.
Barbara Gladstone, 89, Dies; Art Dealer With a Personal Touch and Global Reach

An art world power, she represented more than 70 artists and estates and ran two large exhibition spaces in Manhattan as well as offshoots abroad.
Inside High Valley Books, the Fashion Bookstore in a Brooklyn Apartment

Bill Hall, the proprietor, has assembled a vast collection of hard-to-find fashion books and magazines coveted by designers and influencers.
MoMA’s Garden Party Honors Joan Jonas, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Refik Anadol

The annual event raised more than $5.5 million and drew influential artists, collectors and benefactors to the museum.
Sam Butcher, Who Gave the World Precious Moments, Dies at 85

His childlike porcelain characters thrilled and inspired generations of collectors. They also made him a millionaire.
Notre-Dame Rises Again … in Lego

With rose windows, bell towers and a central spire, this model of the famed Paris cathedral is all the hype among adult fans of Lego, known as AFOLs.
John Lennon’s Guitar From ‘Help!’ Is Sold for $2.9 Million at Auction

After appearing in multiple albums by the Beatles, the instrument was forgotten for more than 50 years before it turned up in the attic of a British countryside home.
Inside the Gala Where Usher Was In a Bidding War Over a Photo

This year’s gala for the Gordon Parks Foundation, which honors the legacy of the influential photographer, raised about $2.3 million, and drew out Alicia Keys, Colin Kaepernick and Ben Stiller.
Singing the Praises of Collectible Watches

The tenor Freddie De Tommaso fell in love with opera and timepieces as a young boy. Now he shops for high-end examples in the cities where he performs.
These 2 Watch Collaborators Have Never Actually Met

Living on opposite sides of the globe didn’t stop them from developing their B/1 timepiece, a nod to Brutalist architecture.
The Night That Sotheby’s Was Crypto-Punked

The auction that was supposed to be an art world coming-out party for NFTs instead exposed the instability at the heart of the crypto world.