Law & Politics In the Trial of Alleged Art-World Scammer Anna Delvey, a Former Vanity Fair Editor Recounts Being Conned in the Luxury Trip From Hell A lavish trip to Morocco ended in disaster for Rachel Williams who was left with $60,000 in debt By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 18, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Is Riding the Modigliani Market With the Sale of a Sculpture That Could Fetch $40 Million This May A similar work by the artist sold for more than $70 million at Sotheby's in 2014. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 18, 2019
Law & Politics As ‘Serial Plaintiffs’ Target Art Gallery Websites for Disability Act Violations, Some Dealers Are Settling—or Scrambling to Get Up to Code More than 100 lawsuits have been filed against New York City galleries in recent times. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 17, 2019
Galleries Gagosian Launches an Advisory Firm and Enlists a New Leadership Team, Suggesting a Pivot for the Mega-Gallery’s Direction Andrew Fabricant has been made COO while his wife, auction veteran Laura Paulson, will spearhead a new advisory division. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 17, 2019
Art Fairs The #MeToo Movement Will Headline Art Basel Unlimited This Year With Andrea Bowers’s Epic Account of America’s Harassment Reckoning The artist's account of the first 100 men accused in the #MeToo movement will likely draw crowds to Art Basel's Unlimited section. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 16, 2019
Art Fairs As Argentina’s Economy Falters, Museums Come to the Rescue, Snapping Up Works at arteBA South American dealers say art offers a form of refuge in volatile times. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2019
Art World Egyptian Authorities Unveil Spectacular Images of a Newly Discovered 4,000-Year-Old Tomb—See Them Here Experts say the tomb could shed light on the life of Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi. By Eileen Kinsella & Caroline Goldstein, Apr 15, 2019
Art Fairs Amid a Struggling Economy, Few Dealers Are Reporting Sales at the arteBA Fair. Strangely, They Don’t Seem to Mind Are visitors seeking refuge in art during tumultuous times? By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 12, 2019
Law & Politics Anna Delvey Tried to Con Bankers Into Lending Her Millions of Dollars to Open an Art Foundation, Witnesses Say The purported art foundation has become a major focus of the ongoing criminal case. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 8, 2019
Politics Hal Foster, Claire Bishop, and More Than 120 Other Intellectuals Call for the Removal of Warren Kanders From the Whitney’s Board Opponents of Kanders say he has been "artwashing" his profits from the defense industry. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2019
Auctions Now at Bonhams, the Marketing Guru Behind ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Applying His Genius to Selling (Much) Cheaper Art Marc Sands says there's a lot of work to be done to attract buyers spending south of $1 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2019
On View What Does the Art Institution of the Future Look Like? Here Are the 4 Big Ideas Driving the Ambitious New Shed Art Center From Björk to Boots Riley, the program aims to surprise you at every turn. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 3, 2019
Auctions Phillips Will Sell a Pop-Art Trove Worth an Estimated $60 Million, One of the Largest Consignments in Its History The Fiterman collection includes heavyweight works by David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 2, 2019
Law & Politics London Dealer Mark Weiss Pays Sotheby’s $4.2 Million to Settle a Dispute Over an Allegedly Fake Frans Hals The purported Hals came from French dealer Guiliano Ruffini, who has sold numerous Old Masters that turned out to be fake. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 1, 2019
Law & Politics ‘Socialite Scammer’ Anna Delvey Is Now on Trial. The Evidence Suggests That Her Art Schemes Were Epic Aby Rosen and Gabriel Calatrava will both be called to the stand. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 28, 2019