Sotheby’s, Newly Relocated to the Breuer Building, Reintroduces Itself to New York

Sotheby’s did not just open a new headquarters this week—it staged a return to form. The auction house has taken over Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist landmark on Madison Avenue, a building that has already lived several cultural lives: it was the longtime home of the Whitney Museum, then the Met Breuer, followed by a short-lived contemporary art annex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a temporary Frick Collection outpost. Now, after a renovation by Herzog & de Meuron, Breuer&