Pop Culture A Pair of ‘Nike Air Yeezy’ Sneakers Kanye West Wore to the Grammys Just Sold for $1.8 Million at Sotheby’s The buyer was a sneaker investment platform called Rares. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 26, 2021
Auctions Mad Dog Jones Is the Most Expensive Living Canadian Artist After Phillips’s $4.1 Million Sale of His Self-Replicating NFT Bidding started at $100 two weeks ago. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 23, 2021
Sustainability How Can an Artist Making Weighty Work Go Carbon Negative? Karen LaMonte Has a Blueprint (It’s Cheaper Than You Think) She quickly learned that not all carbon offsets are created equal. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 22, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Just Launched a Science and Pop Culture Department, Citing Growing Hunger for Dinosaur Bones and Space Suits Sotheby's new division will be helmed by Cassandra Hatton, a former books and manuscript specialist with omnivorous taste. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 21, 2021
Crime The U.S. Returns 33 Antiquities Stolen From Afghanistan That Are Linked to Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor To date, the D.A. has repatriated more than 2,500 works connected with the former art dealer. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 20, 2021
Auctions Surging Demand for Young Artists Powered Sotheby’s $122.5 Million Contemporary Art Sale in Hong Kong The 45-lot sale saw records set for Avery Singer, Salman Toor, and others. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 19, 2021
People How Mega-Collector and Scholar Estrellita Brodsky Uses Her Nonprofit Gallery to Grow Visibility for Latin American Artists Throughout her career, Brodsky has worked to redefine and broaden art historical narratives. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Nets $17 Million With Its First-Ever NFT Auction (Which Included Almost 20,000 Very Fungible Works) Thousands of buyers eagerly snapped up the anonymous artist Pak's $500 "cubes," which were made in an open edition. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2021
Auctions Celeb Podcaster Russell Tovey’s Sotheby’s Sale Generates $8.5 Million—and Fierce Competition for Young Stars The tenth edition of the sale brought the series' highest total to date. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 14, 2021
Auctions A Collection of Impressionist Paintings Assembled by a Campbell’s-Soup Heir May Fetch Over $60 Million at Sotheby’s The sale offers a sign that the market for masterpieces may be returning. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 13, 2021
Market Urs Fischer’s First NFT, Which Created Tension With His Longtime Dealer Gagosian, Sold for Nearly 100 Times Its Estimate on the Fair Warning App Gouzer admits the learning curve for the platform's first-ever NFT auction was steep. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 12, 2021
Galleries Some of the World’s Top Artists Are Trying Their Hand at NFTs. The World’s Top Galleries Are a Bit More Skeptical Here's why artists are the ones leading the charge. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2021
Market Rise of the Cyborg Art Dealers: How the Art Market Is Preparing to Adapt to a Hybrid Online-IRL Future After 2020, here's what has changed, what will stay the same, and what's left to innovate in all corners of the art market. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 4, 2021
Galleries Salon 94 Has Opened a Strikingly Beautiful New Headquarters in an Upper East Side Mansion—See Photos of the Historic Space Here The gallery is opening with two shows, from Niki de Saint Phalle and Derrick Adams. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 4, 2021
Market The Crypto Investor Who Underbid the $69 Million Beeple NFT Has Moved on to Buying His Second Choice: Picasso Justin Sun wants to create a blockchain registry for NFTs of the world's priciest works of art. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 1, 2021