Want to spend New Year’s Eve at The Curtis? This year, it’ll cost you a minimum of $51,000.

But at least you can bring along 600 of your nearest and dearest party people to share in the experience.

The Curtis Hotel, a boutique with a mid-century modern theme and 330 rooms, has started an auction to sell its services for the night of Dec. 31.

Collectors may spend a combined US$100 million at Hong Kong’s first major art sale since the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, said Sotheby’s, as accelerating economic growth in China spurs demand.

A Rembrandt masterpiece is expected to fetch up to £25 million ($41 million) when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s on December 8, 2009.

The painting could break the record price for a Rembrandt, which currently stands at £19,800,000 paid for Portrait Of A Lady Aged 62, in December 2003.

The painting, titled “Portrait of a man, half-length, with his arms akimbo,” was painted in 1658 and has been unseen in public for nearly 40 years.

Last month we wrote about the famed “Star of India” 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom II convertible custom made for an Indian Maharaja.

Now the incredible car has been listed for sale via online global luxury marketplace JamesList for £8 million, or about $13 million.

The 7.7-liter V8-engined car is currently owned by German collector Hans-Gunther Zach, and is part of a vast collection of Rolls’ and Bentleys.

A 66 million-year-old skeleton of one of the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered will be up for sale at an auction in LasVegas on October 3.

The rare skeleton - dubbed ‘Samson’ - is arguably one of the three most complete specimens to have been discovered, auction house Bonhams said.

Native to North America, Tyrannosaurus rex is recognized as the ‘Tyrant Lizard King’ and is the most famous of the behemoths of the “Age of Dinosaurs.”

The famed art auctioneer has signed a lease for 235,000 square feet of warehouse space in Brooklyn. Christie’s will store fine art in the waterfront building.

Christie’s expects to occupy the six-story warehouse building early next year, according to a company spokeswoman.

The company would not say how much it paid for the space, but commercial brokers estimated costs at $8 to $10 per square foot.