Analysis American Museums Are Taking Advantage of Relaxed Rules to Sell More Than $100 Million of Art at Auction This Season The Baltimore Museum is one of eight art institutions selling blue-chip art at auction this season amid relaxed rules about deaccessioning. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 5, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s $4.6 Million Sale of Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection Tripled Expectations and Drew in Droves of New Buyers The proceeds from the sale will benefit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 2, 2020
Market Palm Beach Emerges as the Latest Sun-Kissed Mega-Gallery Outpost as Dealers Follow the Money to America’s Resort Towns Move over, Hamptons. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 1, 2020
Art Fairs Art Basel’s Parent Company MCH Looks for New Revenue Opportunities After Losing More Than $25 Million in the First Half of 2020 Amid steep losses, now legal action could thwart a much-hoped for investment from James Murdoch. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 30, 2020
Auctions A Met Trustee Is Selling One of the Last Rembrandt Biblical Scenes in Private Hands at Sotheby’s for as Much as $30 Million 'Abraham and the Angels' was the centerpiece of a 2017 Frick Collection show. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 29, 2020
Auctions Will This Rare Botticelli Portrait Reset the Old Masters Market? A Renaissance ‘Golden Boy’ Could Fetch $80 Million Sotheby's is offering a rare Botticelli portrait with an extensive museum exhibition history and an $80 million estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 24, 2020
Auctions ‘Business as Usual Went Right Out the Window’: How Lockdown Forced Auction Houses Into the Future—for Good Despite suffering a nosedive in revenue, here’s how the biggest auction houses in the world are evolving to survive. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2020
People What I Buy & Why: New York Collector Sana Rezwan on Buying Art via PDF and the One Treasure That Got Away Rezwan is especially invested in supporting South Asian women artists. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2020
Auctions A Hedge-Fund Manager Who Once Tried to Acquire Sotheby’s Has Just Bought His Way Into a Top Job at the Auction House The increasing financialization of the art market makes Klabin a solid fit for Sotheby's. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 23, 2020
Law & Politics The FBI Has Arrested Two New York Antiquities Dealers for Falsifying Ownership Histories Using Dead Collectors’ Names The owners of Fortuna Fine Art have been charged with falsifying documents. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 22, 2020
Art Fairs For the First Time, TEFAF Will Allow Digital Vetting of Artworks as It Plans for an Online Edition to Replace Its Fall New York Fair To appeal to collectors who have tired of scrolling through screens, each dealer will present only a single "masterpiece" for the fair's online edition. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2020
Art World ‘The Local Audience Is the Central Audience’: As Tourism Tanks Across the US, Museums Pivot to the Visitors in Their Own Backyards As US museums slowly reopen in some major cities, their strategies are evolving to accommodate audiences newly dominated by local visitors. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Sep 18, 2020
Art Fairs Miami’s Art Fairs Can Account for 50 Percent of a Gallery’s Annual Sales. Here’s How Dealers Are Coping With Their Cancellation While some in the trade focus on their bottom lines, others see benefits to slowing down. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 17, 2020
Auctions The King of the New York Auctions This Fall Isn’t Picasso or Pollock. It’s a T. Rex Named Stan—and His $8 Million Skeleton The skeleton is expected to bring in as much as $8 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 16, 2020
Art World The Chief Executive of a Major Mining Company Will Step Down After It Destroyed Two Sacred Aboriginal Structures in Australia The Rio Tinto mining company initially characterized the demolition as a "misunderstanding." By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 11, 2020