| Treasury Auctions Set for This Week The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week included Monday’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and Tueday’s auction of four-week bills. nytimes.com |
A Dreary Night for Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s In a salesroom overflowing with collectors, Sotheby’s barely managed to sell $125.1 million worth of contemporary art on Tuesday night. nytimes.com |
A Novelist’s Catalog of Lives on the Block Leanne Shapton’s book tells the story of a hopeful young couple’s four-year relationship almost completely through their things, many of which end up unceremoniously, and improbably, under the gavel. nytimes.com |
Mapping a Human Genome, via an eBay Auction A company called Knome plans to offer its personal gene-sequencing service to the highest bidder in an eBay auction. nytimes.com |
Risk-Defying Sale of Contemporary Art at Christie's Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale, seen by market pundits as the most risk-fraught of all fields, brought $31.77 million. nytimes.com |