Auctions Christie’s Rakes in $831 Million in an Auction Double-Header, Nearly Half of Which Came From the Anne Bass Collection The sales surpassed their combined $792 million high estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, May 13, 2022
Law Marianne Boesky Loses Her Legal Battle Against Artist Diana Al-Hadid Over an Artwork They Both Claimed Was Theirs In the ruling, a New York judge said their consignment agreement was not a transfer of ownership from the artist to the dealer. By Eileen Kinsella, May 11, 2022
Art Fairs Here’s What Sold on the Opening Day of the Independent Art Fair, From Fantastical Anime Paintings to Figurative Ceramics If the show is any indicator, fairs are primed to come roaring back. By Eileen Kinsella, May 6, 2022
Auctions Here’s Your Guide to the Best, Most Desirable Artworks for Sale During New York’s $2.6 Billion Spring Auction Marathon Collections from the likes of the Macklowes, the Ammanns, and Anne Bass represent an almost unprecedented caliber of material. By Eileen Kinsella, May 6, 2022
Auctions In a Surprise Move, New York City Has Eliminated Longstanding Regulations Designed to Boost Transparency in the Auction Industry Some say the change could backfire on the auction sector. By Eileen Kinsella, May 3, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Will Offer Ann and Gordon Getty’s Sterling Collection of Impressionists and Old Masters, Raising a Potential $180 Million Proceeds from the sale will go to the couple's charitable foundation. By Eileen Kinsella, May 3, 2022
Crime Ukrainian Officials Accuse Russian Forces of Looting Thousands of Priceless Gold Artifacts and Works of Art Russian forces tracked down a collection of ancient gold in Melitopol that had been hidden in a cellar for safekeeping. By Eileen Kinsella, May 2, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Latest ‘Natively Digital’ Sale, Featuring Old-School Digital Artists, Squeaks by Its Low Estimate to Bring in $2.3 Million The curated sale embraced the history of digital art and included both NFTs and physical works. By Eileen Kinsella, May 2, 2022
Crime The Feds Indict Two Detroit Brothers and a Florida Man in a Long-Running Forgery Scheme Peddling Fake Art and Sports Memorabilia The men hawked works by purportedly by Gertrude Abercrombie, George Ault, and others from 2005 to 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 27, 2022
Law TeamLab Is Suing a Los Angeles Museum for Allegedly Copying Its Instagram-Friendly Light Installations for Its Own Display Immersive art is big business. Now, it has the legal bills to prove it. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 27, 2022
Crime Hackers Broke Into Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Official Instagram and Made Off With Nearly $3 Million Worth of Stolen NFTs It's not the first time hackers have targeted apes. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 26, 2022
Law A Diego Rivera Painting Was Among the Assets FBI Agents Seized From Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska The new 'KleptoCapture' task force is ramping up the pressure on Russian oligarchs. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 25, 2022
Art World MoMA and the Neue Galerie Join Forces to Acquire a Searing Self-Portrait by Käthe Kollwitz The work is already on view at MoMA, alongside another jointly acquired work by Paula Modersohn-Becker. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 25, 2022
Politics Russian Authorities Threaten Artist Oleg Kulik With Criminal Charges Over a Sculpture He Showed at the Moscow Art Fair Kulik was questioned by Russian authorities after the Moscow fair closed. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 21, 2022
Market To Ease Supply Chain Delays, Christie’s and the Shipping Company Crozier Are Teaming Up to Open New Sea Freight Routes The partnership will open routes traveling between New York, London, and Hong Kong. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 20, 2022
