Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint Columnist

Annie Armstrong is a writer and reporter based out of New York City.

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Market

Meet Albert Willem, the Self-Taught Belgian Painter Whose Jokey Tableaux Are Suddenly Netting Six Figures at Auction

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Auctions

Phillips 20th Century and Contemporary Art Evening Sale Nets $139 Million, Led by Twombly’s Red Loops

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Auctions

Sotheby’s $391 Million Modern Art Double-Header Signals Enduring Strength in the Art Market, Despite Fears of a Recession

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Wet Paint

An Update on Christophe de Menil, the D.J. Who Is a Thorn in the Side of Dealers at Art Basel Miami Beach, and More Juicy Art World Gossip

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Wet Paint

Wet Paint in the Wild: Fort Gansevoort’s Adam Shopkorn Travels to the Canadian Arctic for One Very Chilly Studio Visit

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Wet Paint

The Skinny on Anna Weyant’s Primary Market Prices, Art Job Salaries Laid Bare, and More Juicy Art World Gossip

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Wet Paint

Wet Paint in the Wild: Ursula Von Rydingsvard Plays With Chainsaws and Sees Her Sculptures Transformed Into Cookies

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Politics

How Ted Cruz Accidentally Got Caught Up in a Publicity Stunt for an Adult-Themed NFT

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Wet Paint

Wet Paint in the Wild: Artist Jeanette Hayes Takes Us on a Psychedelic Romp Through Paris

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Wet Paint

Revealing the Ascendant Artist Tapped for the Rubell’s Coveted Residency, a Shoe Fight at Frieze Seoul, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

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Wet Paint

Wet Paint in the Wild: Pace’s Kimberly Drew Celebrates Black Womanhood—and Takes a Breather—at Simone Leigh’s Venice Retreat

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Crime

A Group of Young Thieves Are Posing as Art Students to Rob Galleries on New York’s Lower East Side

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Style

In Pictures: The Best (and Most Creatively) Dressed Attendees at the Opening Day of Frieze London 2022

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Wet Paint

A Glamorous Night Out in London With Hannah Traore, the Skinny on LVMH and Gagosian, and More Juicy Art World Gossip

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Wet Paint

Wet Paint in the Wild: Sebastian Gladstone Shows Off His New Gallery and Bops Around L.A. With His Dog Mustard

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