Auctions A $35 Million Monet Will Highlight Christie’s New 20th-Century Evening Sale as the Auction House Shakes Up Its Departmental Categories The auction house is redefining what it means by Modern and contemporary art. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 18, 2021
Market The Art Industry Is in Its Worst Recession Since 2009, Art Basel’s Latest Art Market Report Finds Global sales of art and antiques in 2020 were down 22 percent from 2019, as trading dropped across practically all market sectors. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 16, 2021
Auctions A New York Lawmaker Has Proposed a Bill to Increase Taxes on Auction Sales to Fund Public Art Education The high-end art market might be coming under increased scrutiny as budgets tighten. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 15, 2021
Auctions ‘This Is Going to Be a Billion-Dollar Piece Someday’: The Buyer of the $69 Million Beeple NFT on Why It’s the Greatest Artwork in a Generation Singapore-based NFT collectors Metakovan and Twobadour want to build "a massive monument" to their new work. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 12, 2021
Art World The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lands a Major Gift of Work by Black American Artists From Pamela Joyner and Alfred Giuffrida The donated works are primarily by artists born before 1930. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2021
Auctions An NFT Artwork by Beeple Just Sold for an Unbelievable $69 Million at Christie’s—Making Him the Third Most Expensive Living Artist at Auction The event marks the auction house's first-ever NFT sale. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2021
Galleries Star Chicago Gallerist Mariane Ibrahim Is Opening a New Space in Paris as International Art Dealers Rush to the French Capital "The global is local and vice versa," Ibrahim says of her thinking. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 9, 2021
Galleries Cindy Sherman Signs With Hauser and Wirth as Her Longtime Gallery Metro Pictures Announces Its Closure The news comes just days after Metro Pictures announced plans to close. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 9, 2021
Galleries ‘It’s Just Time for Us to Go’: Metro Pictures Co-Founder Janelle Reiring on Closing the Legendary Gallery Amid a Rapidly Changing Art World Reiring reflects on how her role as a dealer changed over 40 years. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 8, 2021
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, Mar 5, 2021
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, Mar 4, 2021
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, Mar 4, 2021
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, Mar 3, 2021
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
