Artnet News Pro Who Were the Best-Selling Artists at Auction in 2021? See the Top 20 Names—and Find Out What They Reveal About the Market For the first time, a female artist cracked the top 10. By Julia Halperin, Jan 7, 2022
Artnet News Pro The Art Market at a Glance: 5 Charts That Map the Biggest Changes in the Industry This Year From the rise of Asian buyers to the dominance of ultra-contemporary art, these graphs show, rather than tell, what happened. By Julia Halperin, Dec 30, 2021
People The American Painter Wayne Thiebaud, Who Transformed Cakes Into Symbols of Joy and Longing, Has Died at 101 Thiebaud, who spent most of his life in California, was one of the country's most beloved and recognizable painters. By Julia Halperin, Dec 27, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in November 2021—and the Fast-Rising Talents Due to Break in See who's up, who's down, and who's up next. By Julia Halperin, Dec 22, 2021
Museums A Sculpture of the Laocoön Group Was Vandalized at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Leaving Two of Its Figures Headless The museum says it is working with the San Francisco Police Department to recover the missing fragments of the statue. By Julia Halperin, Dec 6, 2021
Art Fairs 5 Memorable Booths to Seek Out at Art Basel Miami Beach, From Karon Davis’s Circus Installation to a Smashing Young Artist Debut It's nearly impossible to see all 253 booths at Art Basel Miami Beach, but I tried anyway. Here are five of the best. By Julia Halperin, Dec 2, 2021
Art Fairs To Adapt to a Changing Market, Art Basel Is Eliminating Old Rules That Barred Younger Galleries From the Fair The change is part of a broader overhaul of the historically strict criteria galleries need to meet in order to apply. By Julia Halperin, Dec 1, 2021
Galleries Simone Leigh, the Celebrated Sculptor Who Left Hauser and Wirth After Less Than Two Years, Has Joined Matthew Marks The artist is representing the U.S. in the Venice Biennale next year. By Julia Halperin, Nov 30, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in October 2021—and the Fast-Rising Talents Poised to Break in Soon See who's up, who's down, and who's up next. By Julia Halperin, Nov 22, 2021
People Jimmie Durham, Whose Trenchant Art Needled American Identity and Colonialism, Has Died at 81 The artist's work about the role of Native identity in American culture gained him wide acclaim and pointed scrutiny. By Julia Halperin, Nov 17, 2021
Artnet News Pro Just How Much Stronger Is the Art Market in 2021 Than in Years Past? We Crunched the Numbers We read the tea leaves in data from the Artnet Price Database to break down the market. By Julia Halperin, Nov 10, 2021
Artnet News Pro The Market for Ultra-Contemporary Art at Auction Has More Than Doubled Since 2019. What’s Driving the Boom? We read the tea leaves in data from the Artnet Price Database to break down the trend. By Julia Halperin, Oct 28, 2021
Auctions Banksy’s Famed Shredded Artwork, ‘Love Is in the Bin,’ Sells for a Record $25.4 Million at Sotheby’s—18 Times the Non-Shredded Price Sotheby's was careful that Banksy had no more funny business planned, even though the 2018 stunt only enhanced the work's value. By Julia Halperin, Oct 14, 2021
Artnet News Pro Exactly How Much Has the Art Market Rebounded From 2020—and What’s Driving the Growth? We Crunched the Numbers We read the tea leaves in data from the Artnet Price Database to give you a sense of what's in store. By Julia Halperin, Oct 7, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in August 2021—and the Fast-Rising Talents Poised to Break in Soon See who's up, who's down, and who's up next. By Julia Halperin, Sep 21, 2021
