Market Christie’s Shelves ‘Art Handler’ Clothing Collaboration With Highsnobiety After Backlash From Real-Life Art Handlers The pricey clothing line was viewed as offensive and tone-deaf by real-life art workers. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 6, 2022
Auctions As Georgia O’Keeffe’s Market Blooms, Christie’s Will Sell a Trove of Top-Notch Works by the Artist From Paul Allen’s Collection The works are part of Allen's 150-work-strong collection expected to bring in as much as $1 billion this fall. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 5, 2022
Auctions Robert Pattinson’s Participation May Turn Out to Be the Least Notable Part of Sotheby’s Experimental Contemporary Art Sale The sale also included the debut of Artists' Choice, a new initiative that enables artists and their dealers to consign directly to auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2022
Auctions Demand for Rediscovered Artists and Young Talent Remains Strong, If Not Frothy, at Christie’s $26 Million Postwar to Present Sale Works by the late Maine artist Lynne Drexler led the offering. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2022
Crime As Russians ‘Pillage’ Ukraine’s Museums in Annexed Territories, Artifacts Are Turning Up in Moscow and on the Black Market The illegally annexed territories are home to many major museums. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2022
Museums & Institutions A Longtime Whitney Curator and a Former Los Angeles Museum Director Will Curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli are teaming up for the museum's signature event. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 29, 2022
Analysis How a $10 Million Miró Auction Flop Turned Into a Dream Come True for One Dutch Museum The museum seized an opportunity after the Surrealist work failed to sell at auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 29, 2022
Archaeology Archeologists Have Uncovered Hidden Hieroglyphs in King Tut’s Tomb That May Point to the Secret Location of Queen Nefertiti’s Remains Nicholas Reeves believes the secret lies behind a sealed door. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 27, 2022
Artnet News Pro Bonhams Has Been Acquiring Its Competitors at Warp Speed. Here’s Why the Middle-Market Player Wants a Network, Not an Empire The house has found a winning strategy in accelerating key trends at play in the auction realm. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 27, 2022
Crime U.K. Dealer Rob Newland Has Pleaded Guilty to a Role in Inigo Philbrick’s $86 Million Art-Fraud Scheme Prosecutors say Newland helped construct the byzantine business deals that allowed the ruse to proceed. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2022
Museums & Institutions Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Center Is in Turmoil Amid a Mass Resignation of Board Members Long-simmering tensions between the museum and the Harbourfront Centre, which oversees it, came to a head last week. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Has Revealed 15 Masterpieces for Sale From Paul Allen’s Collection, Including Three Works Estimated at $100 Million Each See what the most expensive art collection ever on offer has in store for trophy hunters. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 22, 2022
Travel See How a Colombian Collector Turned Pablo Escobar’s Former Mexican Hideout Into an Art-Filled Hotel Lio Malca's vast collection is spread across his homes, a hotel, and a foundation in Spain. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 21, 2022
Market Swiss Art Dealer Yves Bouvier Has Sold His Singapore Freeport to a Chinese Crypto Magnate for a Major Loss The Singapore complex, built 12 years ago for $70 million, sold for less than half that sum. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2022
Analysis How Canny Market Players Helped Push Once-Obscure Painter Lynne Drexler’s Prices From Fifty Bucks to Over $1 Million The painter lived for decades on a remote island in Maine. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2022
