The Art Detective Why Do Artists Leave Their Galleries? It’s About Money—and a Whole Lot More The announcements of new artist-dealer relationships are coming at an increasingly fast clip. Here's what's driving the musical chairs. By Katya Kazakina, 2 days ago
Market Surrealist Art Is Everywhere Right Now. The Prices Are Pretty Surreal, Too These days, surrealism is a catchall for a particular style of representational painting: figuration with a twist. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 14, 2022
Art Fairs Who Is Stanislao Lepri, the Painter and Paramour of Leonor Fini? With the Surrealist Market Heating Up, He’s Suddenly Getting the Spotlight Lepri left a career in diplomacy to pursue a life of art and love with Fini and a Polish writer. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 8, 2022
Galleries Prices? Six Figures—at Least. Waitlist? Interminable. Gagosian Is Preparing for Its Highly Anticipated Anna Weyant Solo Debut in November Galleries are trying to figure out how to handle careers of high-profile young stars in an unprecedented market moment. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 7, 2022
The Art Detective As They Arrive in New York, the Dealers Behind Sprüth Magers Discuss How a Gallery Can Have a ‘Cultural Footprint’ The much-admired dealers of 20th century titans are debuting in New York with an exhibition of work by John Baldessari. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 2, 2022
Market A New Exhibition in Hong Kong Aims to Boost the Market for Female Abstract Expressionists—the Ones You Know and the Ones You Don’t Art Intelligence Global is inaugurating its Hong Kong exhibition space with a showcase of five Ab-Ex artists. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 31, 2022
The Art Detective Musicians and Movie Stars Have Had Managers Forever. Now, It’s Becoming Big Business to Manage Artists, Too Longtime art advisors say that managing artists has become the fastest-growing segment of their business. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 26, 2022
The Art Detective A 54-Year-Old History Teacher in Connecticut Just Became One of the Art Market’s Fastest-Rising Stars It helps that Rob Ober was previously a collector and dealer. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 5, 2022
The Art Detective The U.S. Dollar Is the Strongest It’s Been in Two Decades. So What Does Its Growing Power Mean for the Art Market? Americans' buying power is growing fast—at least for now. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 29, 2022
The Art Detective Forget the Hamptons. Artists, Dealers, and Advisors Are Congregating in a New Bucolic Contemporary Art Hub: Maine The state has always been a haven for artists. Now, the rest of the art world is starting to catch up. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 22, 2022
Artnet News Pro Phillips Executive David Norman Joins the Wave of Auction-House Veterans Leaving to Become Independent Art Advisors Norman worked at Phillips for three years after a long chapter at Sotheby's. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 11, 2022
The Art Detective Asian Collectors Were on the Bleeding Edge of the Recent Art-Market Boom. Now, They’re Pumping the Brakes The most recent contemporary-art evening sales in Hong Kong were down a combined 30 percent from a year earlier. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 8, 2022
The Art Detective Young Female Artists Are Finally Getting Some Art-Market Traction—But Their Predecessors Remain Scandalously Undervalued Work by female artists born between 1930 and 1975 accounted for just 5.3 percent of the $16.7 billion in auction sales in the past five years. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 5, 2022
Auctions Phillips’s Trim Summer London Sale Generates $21.3 Million, Less Than Half the 2019 Total, as the Art Market Enters a Phase of Caution The market for work by young artists appears to be getting more choosy. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 30, 2022
The Art Detective I’ve Seen a Lot of Money Grabs in My Career as an Art Market Reporter. NFT.NYC Topped Them All The crypto world and the art world are both built on a desire for access. What happens when they collide? By Katya Kazakina, Jun 24, 2022
