Art and Law Lawmakers Are Cracking Down on the ‘Unregulated’ US Art Market. Here’s How a New Anti-Money Laundering Law Will Affect Dealers The new regulations target antiquities dealers, but could soon apply across the art market. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 6, 2021
Galleries Gagosian Has Closed Its San Francisco Gallery, Once Seen as a Beacon of Promise for Silicon Valley’s Art Market The gallery says it will focus its West Coast energies on Los Angeles. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 4, 2021
Art World ‘We’d Love to Work With Netflix Again’: Cash-Strapped Museums Looking for New Audiences Are Increasingly Doing Exhibits-for-Hire After a challenging year, museums are opening themselves up to creative revenue streams—including sponsored content. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 4, 2021
Art World Here Are the 12 Biggest Controversies That Rocked the Art World in 2020—and Why They Won’t Disappear Next Year From turmoil inside museums to extremely bad public sculptures of women, here are a dozen issues that got the art world talking in 2020. By Eileen Kinsella & Julia Halperin, Dec 31, 2020
Art World Struggling Arts Venues Will Get a Much-Needed $15 Billion Boost Through Congress’s Emergency Aid Package The NEA and NEH are also getting increases in the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 22, 2020
Art and Law Sotheby’s Pushes to Dismiss the New York Attorney General’s Lawsuit Over Its Alleged Role in Helping a Collector Evade Taxes The house argued its staffer was simply "poorly trained." By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 22, 2020
Galleries Curatorial Dynamo Destinee Ross-Sutton Just Opened a New Project Space Dedicated to Black Art in SoHo—No Flippers Allowed A contract she first developed for Christie's is in place for all sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 22, 2020
Auctions Top Auction Houses Saw Total Sales Drop in 2020—But Sotheby’s Outpaced Rival Christie’s With $5 Billion in Revenue Private sales, online sales, and demand from Asia are driving growth. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 18, 2020
Art and Law Phillips Has the Right to Cancel a $5 Million Agreement With Art Dealer Joseph Nahmad Amid Pandemic Upheaval, Judge Rules The judge said the situation unequivocally qualifies as "force majeure." By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 17, 2020
Galleries Perrotin Is Launching a Secondary-Market Business in Paris to Offer Collectors a Bespoke ‘Alternative to Auction Houses’ The venture will be housed in a townhouse near the Grand Palais and Sotheby's and Christie's salesrooms. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 15, 2020
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2020—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did Plus, who bought and sold them (when we could figure it out). By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2020
Art and Law A $1 Million Marsden Hartley That Was Stolen 30 Years Ago and Replaced With a Forgery Is Finally Returning to Its Original Owner The case took some wild twists and turns on its year-long journey through the courts. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 11, 2020
People Convicted Fraudster Anna Delvey Conned Collector Michael Xufu Huang. That Didn’t Stop Him From Hanging Her Portrait in His New Museum Huang is now a character in a TV series about the notorious art-world scammer. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 10, 2020
Art World The Riveting Stories Behind 5 Art Historical Masterpieces, From ‘American Gothic’ to Leonardo da Vinci’s Vision of Cecilia Gallerani A new book by Francesca Bonazzoli and Michele Robecchi explores these pictures and others. By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, Dec 9, 2020
Art and Law Prosecutors Are Issuing Subpoenas to Sotheby’s and Christie’s as Part of an Investigation Into Jeffrey Epstein’s Financial Dealings Prosecutors in the US Virgin Islands issued the subpoenas. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 8, 2020
