Art Fairs FIAC’s Digital Edition Clicks With Buyers, Thanks to a Curated Approach and a ‘Chance Encounter’ Button That Emulates the Fun of IRL Fairs A round-up of sales and strategies from the online edition of the French fair. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 hours ago
Auctions Signaling an Enduring Appetite for Young Art, Phillips’s ‘New Now’ Sale Brings in a Record $9.5 Million The sale also saw 20 new artist auction records set. By Eileen Kinsella, 1 day ago
Galleries Paintings of Nuclear Tests and a Burning Notre Dame Will Set the Tone for Damien Hirst’s Yearlong Gagosian Takeover Show "Damien has been fascinated with the idea of representing reality," says Gagosian director Millicent Wilner. By Eileen Kinsella, 1 day ago
Auctions Christie’s Sale of Man Ray Works Was a Smashing Success—But the Artist’s Trust Says the $7.1 Million Auction Never Should Have Happened Contested ownership claims failed to dampen collector interest in the auction. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Market After a Year of Being Forced to Sell Art Online, Gallerists Have Learned 5 Surprising Lessons—and It’s Clear There’s No Going Back We spoke with more than a dozen gallerists to learn their biggest takeaways, both positive and negative, from online viewing rooms. By Eileen Kinsella & Kate Brown, Mar 2, 2021
Market ‘It’s All Happening’: As an NFT Artwork by Beeple Sells for $6.6 Million, Market Observers Are Torn Between Jubilation and Alarm Within the space of an hour, a work on offer at Christie's jumped from $100 to $1 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 26, 2021
Analysis Steep Job Losses in California, Home to the Largest Creative Economy in the US, Spell Trouble for the Rest of the Country, a Report Says The report's authors hope to suggest a path to recovery. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 25, 2021
Art and Law A French Appeals Court Has Found Jeff Koons Guilty of Copyright Infringement Again—and Hiked Up His Fines The Paris court shot down the Pompidou and Koons's appeal of the long-running case. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions A Vincent van Gogh Landscape Never Before Seen in Public Could Fetch Nearly $10 Million at Auction Next Month The painting has been housed in the private collection of a French family for more than a century. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000 The price was 300 in Ethereum. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 22, 2021
Market How Artist Yoshitomo Nara’s Return to Japan After 12 Years Abroad Reshaped His Style—and Supercharged His Soaring Market The artist's famously sassy cartoon characters command millions of dollars. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions A $9.8 Million Auction of Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Their Artist Friends More Than Doubled Its Estimate at Sotheby’s Paris The auction offered an eclectic mix of work by the artists and those in their inner circle. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 18, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Hopes to Open a New Frontier of the Art Market With the First-Ever Major Auction of a Wholly Digital Blockchain Artwork The starting price for the work is just $100. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 16, 2021
Art World As Museums Desperately Try to Diversify Their Collections, They Now Face Another Problem: How to Pay for It in a Financial Crisis Some initiatives implemented prior to the pandemic have proved surprisingly resilient, while others are under major stress. By Naomi Rea & Eileen Kinsella, Feb 11, 2021
Auctions Undaunted by Restitution and Authenticity Claims From Mexico, Christie’s Pulls in a Solid $3 Million at Its Sale of Pre-Columbian Art in Paris The auction house said all the works were "legitimately sold." By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 10, 2021
