Auctions A Few Technical Difficulties May Have Been the Most Exciting Thing About Sotheby’s $209 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale A new record was set for Tamara de Lempicka, but a Picasso work sold despite missing its low estimate by a wide margin. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2019
Art and Law A Bill That Aims to Fight Money Laundering Through Antiquities Sales Is Making Its Way Through Congress. Some Dealers Are Quaking A bill currently before the Senate could subject art and antiquities dealers to tighter oversight. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 12, 2019
Auctions Auction Guarantees Lifted the Art Market to Record-Breaking Heights. The Only Problem? The Golden Age of Guarantees Is Over These lucrative hedges were once the financial instrument of choice for speculators and market manipulators, but now they’ve lost their luster. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 11, 2019
Art and Law A Bombshell Lawsuit Claims That High-Flying Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Swindled His Clients by Selling the Same Rudolf Stingel Again and Again The case includes accusations of a fake auction guarantee and double-dealing. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 8, 2019
Auctions From a Broadway Producer’s Picasso to a Record-Smashing Ruscha, Here’s Your Guide to the Top Works in the $1 Billion Fall Auction Season High-price masterpieces are in short supply and estimates are down almost 40 percent from last year. But there's still plenty to look out for. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 7, 2019
People ‘They Had No One in Their Corner’: Meet the Lawyer Who Is Battling Big Corporations on Behalf of Street Artists Corporations want to be associated with street art—but they don't want to pay artists for their work. That's where lawyer Jeff Gluck steps in. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 7, 2019
Galleries Will Tech Billionaires Pay Up for Picasso? Pace’s Latest Show Brings the Artist’s Work to Facebook and Google’s Doorstep The gallery is marking its fifth anniversary in the city by organizing its first-ever major Picasso exhibition. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 4, 2019
Art World See 8 Intriguing Finds at This Year’s TEFAF New York, From a Greek Suit of Armor to an Ancient Bust Once Owned by Warhol See highlights from the swanky Upper East Side-based art fair. By Eileen Kinsella & Sarah Cascone & Tim Schneider, Nov 1, 2019
Politics Artist Phil Collins Pulls His Work From a MoMA PS1 Show in Protest of a Trustee’s Ties to For-Profit Prisons MoMA donor Larry Fink and his company BlackRock are under scrutiny. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 30, 2019
Analysis Tad Smith Went From the Entertainment World to Remake Sotheby’s. Now That He’s Out as CEO, Where Does the Auction House Go From Here? Unpacking the ways Sotheby's evolved—and didn't—during Smith's four and a half years as CEO of the renowned auction house. By Tim Schneider & Eileen Kinsella, Oct 30, 2019
Auctions Basquiat’s Painting of a Triumphant Warrior in a Boxing Ring Could Fetch $15 Million at Phillips This Fall The artist grew up watching boxing with his father. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 29, 2019
Art and Law To Settle the Macklowe Divorce, a Court Will Ask a Famed Art Dealer to Sell Off Their $700 Million Art Collection—and Everyone Is Watching The hefty collection may be coming to an auction block near you soon. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019
Auctions New Sotheby’s Owner Patrick Drahi Replaces CEO Tad Smith With a Trusted Turnaround Wizard New CEO Charles Stewart was most recently CFO of Drahi's company Altice USA. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019
Art World Are You an Aspiring Arts Critic? The New York Times Is Launching a Paid Fellowship Program to Give You a Shot at the Big Time The paper of record is hoping to help train the next generation of arts critics with a year-long fellowship. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 25, 2019
Auctions Feverish Bidders Snapped Up All 274 Works in a Triumphant Sotheby’s Sale From the Collection of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne The sale quadrupled its high presale estimate and drew more that 4,000 bidders. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 25, 2019
