Our colleague Kelly Crow covers the art market.

And last week was a big one for her.

It was auction week in New York.

Yeah, it's kind of the art world's version of the Super Bowl.

The world's biggest auction houses roll out a series of sales that happen every night of the week.

And for years, this is sort of served as a public reckoning moment to reassess price levels for hundreds of the world's most expensive artists.

Auction Week showcases the biggest art sales.

It's a chance for art watchers like Kelly to see which artists are hot

and what kind of eye-popping prices their work can command.

And what was the hottest piece up for sale this auction week?

So heading into last week, all eyes were on this Alberto Giacometti sculpture,

a bronze bust of the artist's younger brother Diego.

It kind of came in with the highest estimate of the week at around $70 million.

Collectors and curators consider the bust a masterpiece. estimate of the week at around $70 million.

Collectors and curators consider the bust a masterpiece.

And Kelly was in the room when it went up for sale at the auction house Sotheby's New York headquarters.

It's this soaring tall building built to sort of feel like a luxury shopping mall, if you

will.

There's escalators that run right

up the middle with galleries ringing each floor. And so you kind of go up these series of escalators

and there's polite women greeting you at every floor. And everyone's in pinstripe suits and,

you know, nice dresses and sort of make your way finally to

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