The Back Room The Back Room: Surreal Season This week: Surrealism surrounds us, art theft meets auto theft, the rise of Danielle Roberts, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Sep 16, 2022
Auctions Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Signature Beaded Judicial Collar Fetched Almost 30 Times Its Estimate at Bonhams The sale fetched more than half a million dollars overall, and the proceeds will go to the RBG Endowment Fund. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 16, 2022
Auctions Willem de Kooning’s Family Will Auction Off Three Paintings by the Artist for as Much as $50 Million This Fall The three canvases, selected with de Kooning’s granddaughters, each represent a different decade in the late artist’s storied career. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 16, 2022
Art Fairs Maurizio Cattelan Is on a Mission to Turn Reclusive Wisconsin Artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Into a Household Name Cattelan is behind a presentation of the work of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein at Paris's Outsider Art Fair. By Anna Sansom, Sep 16, 2022
Auctions A Painting by the Rapper Skepta Just Sold for Nearly $100,000 in a Sotheby’s Sale He Helped Curate The price easily exceeded expectations. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 16, 2022
Auctions A Black-Owned Baltimore Gallery Aims to Change the Game by Partnering Directly With Christie’s Myrtis Bedolla on the significance of the initiative and how it grows out of her gallery's previous work. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 16, 2022
Artnet News Pro Does the Market Only Pay Attention to Art From the Middle East During Times of Conflict? During the Arab Spring in 2011, the wider art world championed the region's artists. But in the past decade, support has dried up, as have auction prices. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Sep 16, 2022
Auctions A Jersey Michael Jordan Wore in the Famous ‘Last Dance’ 1998 NBA Finals Just Sold at Sotheby’s for $10.1 Million The jersey is now the most expensive piece of game-worn sports memorabilia sold at auction. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 15, 2022
Wet Paint Rick Rubin May Have Burned Down Donald Judd’s Former Home, a Conceptual Art Thief Hits Miami, and More Juicy Art World Gossip Plus, how did Frieze threaten a collector? Which well-known dealer was impersonated at sea? Read on for answers. By Annie Armstrong, Sep 15, 2022
NFTs A New Line of Tarot-Themed NFTs Will Support Latinx Artists and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation The inaugural collection is a collaboration by artists Glenda León and Gustavo Pérez Monzón. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 15, 2022
NFTs The Boom and the Bust: How NFTs Went the Way of Beanie Babies Have NFTs become the tackiest status symbol? By Amy Castor, Sep 15, 2022
Wet Paint Wet Paint in the Wild: Art Journalist Randy Kennedy Fueled Up on French Home-Cooking to Kick Off New York’s Fall Art Season The writer and Hauser & Wirth principal took us through a week in his life. By Annie Armstrong, Sep 15, 2022
Auctions A Folio From the Greatest Illuminated Manuscript of Persia’s ‘Book of Kings’ Could Fetch $7 Million at Sotheby’s The single double-sided sheet is from the most treasured manuscript of "The Shahnameh." By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 15, 2022
Galleries Henry Street Is New York’s New Affordable, Experimental Art Hub. But Its Dealers Wonder How Long the Good Times Can Last A cluster of galleries have been enjoying low rent from multi-year leases signed in 2020. What happens when those expire? By Annie Armstrong, Sep 14, 2022
Auctions $70 Million Worth of Art That Hung in MoMA Is Hitting the Auction Block Proceeds from the Sotheby's sales will help the museum ramp up its digital offerings. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 14, 2022