Pricing Culture has added a news feed of auction house collectibles at Machinegenerated.com.

The articles cover everything from vintage cars to fine wines to paintings by Andy Warhol that are being auctioned.

The catalog of items included in the feed comes from Sotheby’s and Christies, as well as  smaller houses, such as Julien’s Auctions and R&R Auction. 

The feed includes hundreds of articles a week about high quality assets when they are announced or sold, making it easy to follow the flow of news.

The content should be useful to collectors, the media, and even the auction houses themselves. 

A good example is a recent story we carried about the same via Julien’s of a Leonard Cohen manuscript for the song “There For You.” 

A reporter from Newsweek saw the details on our feed and published an article online about the document on the magazine’s website.

Newsweek said it offered “a glimpse into the creative process of the legendary singer-songwriter.” The “handwritten page includes lyrics penned in Cohen’s own hand in purple marker, offering a deeper look at his lyrical experimentation.“

Pricing Culture applies AI models to write narratives about the collectibles. In the process it makes data embedded in catalogues more accessible to a wider audience of both people and machines (LLMs.) 

We also calculate factors such as the sell-through rate, percentage of assets that beat “high expectations” set by the auction houses and the total hammer sales. 

All the information on cultural assets is available in a standardized format across various auctions taking place around the world.

Cultural assets are one of a growing series of textual feeds created by Pricing Culture that cover topics ranging from alternative data, S&P corporate earnings, hedge fund letters and venture capital social media posts. 

You can find the feeds at the web site machinegenerated.com.