Sotheby's Turned a Museum Into an Auction House for Its Fall Sales

Sotheby's will need to tear down five walls in its biggest gallery the night before its inaugural sale on Tuesday just to make enough room for bidders to sit.

- BY KELLY CROW

A view of the fourth floor gallery of the Whitney Museum of American Art, left, before Sotheby's bought the building. The new fourth floor, above.

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