The exterior of Marcel, the new dining destination inside Sotheby’s Breuer building headquarters.
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side effect I carry from reporting on the art market for as long as I have is a warped sense of numbers. Is $300,000 a lot, or a little for a sculpture of a stuffed sheep? Should a wise collector spring for the $5 million difference to secure an early Joan Mitchell piece, painted in 1959, versus one painted in 1990, during her golden years? Or would an investment into a 67 million year old Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth, dredged up from ancient soil in Montana, be a surer shot?
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