A LITTLE DISTANCE PLEASE

Okay, so Sotheby’s chairman has resigned in the midst of the auction house investigations. But if his people still control the board of directors, how will the company make a clean break from possible misdeeds of the past? – Financial Times

TARNISHED TALE: Sotheby’s chairman Alfred Taubman rebuilt Sotheby’s and helped make it successful – it was all a kind of fairy tale. But sometimes fairy tales write their own dark endings… – New York Times