Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint Columnist

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

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Galleries

The Descendant of Matisse and Duchamp Wanted to Be a Mechanic. Now He’s a Starmaking Art Dealer

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

Lucas Zwirner Is Looking for Love, Tribeca Dealers Sound Alarm on the Mega-Gallery Moving In, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

Celebrity Daughter Lands Gig at Gagosian, Paul Chan’s New Show Draws Weirdly Intense Backlash, and More Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

People

Rachel Uffner’s Tastemaking Gallery Survived the Great Recession and the Pandemic. The Daily Grind Is Much Harder

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

Kanye West Teams Up With Judy Chicago, TikToker Gets $25K Offers for Probably Fake Banksys, and More Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

Artists Slap Dealer With Suit for Missing Payments, Brooklyn Museum Prez Tries to Block Bad Press, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

Downtown New York Galleries Go for Broke With New Spaces, a Mega-Collector Launches Into Space, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

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Collectors Abandon Art Basel Miami Beach for NFT Fairs, Kennedy Yanko Gets a New Gallery, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

Art Fairs

Collectors Unleash Pent-Up Buying Demand at NADA Miami, Where Concerns Over Speculation Abound

by Eileen Kinsella & Annie Armstrong

People

Self-Taught Artist Jammie Holmes Didn’t Set Foot in a Museum Until He Was Over 30. Now, Collectors Are Vying for His Work

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

David and Libbie Mugrabi Move On, Christie’s Staff Scouts for Private Sale on Discord, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong

Auctions

Emerging Artists Earn Phillips Its Most Lucrative Auction Ever, Raking in a $137.9 Million Sales Total

by Annie Armstrong

Auctions

Frida Kahlo Sets a New Auction Record for Latin American Art—Beating Out Diego Rivera—at Sotheby’s $283 Million Modern Art Evening Sale

by Annie Armstrong

Art Fairs

The Rescheduled Dallas Art Fair Opens With Slow But Steady Sales and an Eye Towards Local Institutions

by Annie Armstrong

Wet Paint

‘Free Peter Max’ Is the New ‘Free Britney,’ a Secondary-Market Dealmaker Pivots to Primary, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

by Annie Armstrong