The Art Detective Emerging African Artists Have Amassed Nearly $65 Million at Auction Since 2019. Some of Them Don’t Even Have Galleries Yet Artists such as Ismail Isshaq and Emmanuel Taku are igniting bidding wars at auction before they've even had a major New York gallery show. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 14, 2022
The Art Detective Sotheby’s Owner Patrick Drahi Stands to Make a Fortune Off an IPO Just Two Years After Taking the House Private. How? By Being Ruthless Cost-cutting, smart financial plays, strong branding, and very good timing helped make Sotheby's an extremely listable asset. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 21, 2021
Law FBI Agents Descend on Palm Beach’s Upscale Worth Avenue in a Late-Morning Raid of the Gallery Danieli Fine Art Art dealers and other business owners watched with interest as FBI and IRS agents papered over the gallery windows. By Eileen Kinsella & Katya Kazakina, Dec 15, 2021
Auctions Setting an All-Time Record, Sotheby’s Has Sold $7.3 Billion Worth of Art in 2021. Here’s How The robust results coincide with reports that owner Patrick Drahi may be contemplating an IPO. By Eileen Kinsella & Katya Kazakina, Dec 15, 2021
The Art Detective NFT Collectors and Museums Have a Novel Problem: How Do You Deal With Art That an Artist Can Change at Will? The allure of Beeple's latest work is that he can makes alterations to it whenever he likes. That can be a problem for some. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 10, 2021
The Art Detective ‘It’s a Trial by Fire’: How Dealers Spooked by Speculators at Art Basel Miami Beach Decide Whom to Trust—and Whom to Sell to With demand for artworks far outstripping artificial controls on supply, dealers get their pick of the litter when it comes to collectors. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 3, 2021
Art Fairs ‘We Cannot Keep Up’: Dealers Return to a Red-Hot Market at Art Basel Miami Beach, Where VIPs Are Clamoring for Contemporary Art Tens of millions of dollars' worth of sales were cemented within the preview's first few hours. By Katya Kazakina & Eileen Kinsella, Dec 1, 2021
Artnet News Pro Miami Developer Craig Robins Is Having a Banner Year, and the City’s Art and Design Scene Is Benefiting The man behind the Design District sounds an upbeat note for the city's cultural cachet. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 29, 2021
The Art Detective ‘The Underbidder Gets F-cked’: How Murky Financial Wizardry Thwarted the Crypto Dreamers and Other Bidders at This Week’s Auctions A mysterious thing happened to a number of top lots this season: the final price was less than the auction house initially recorded. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 19, 2021
Auctions The Macklowe Collection Delivers an Eye-Popping $676 Million at Sotheby’s, Making It the Most Valuable Sale in Company History The 35-lot sale, the result of the couple's bitter divorce, was the biggest test of the high-end art market since March 2020. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 15, 2021
The Art Detective ‘You Feel Lost’: Blue-Chip Veterans Bemoan the Current Contemporary-Crazed Market, Where Banksy Sells Better Than Monet Ever since the high-stakes auctions began in New York this week, the most burning question has been: is the time of blue-chip art over? By Katya Kazakina, Nov 12, 2021
Auctions The First Live Auction at Christie’s New York Since 2020 Delivers a Satisfying $219.3 Million Result, But Leaves Little to Chance The 21st-century evening sale at Rockefeller Center set 10 new artist records. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 10, 2021
The Art Detective Revealed: The Biggest Consignors to New York’s $1.4 Billion Fall Auctions, From Eric Clapton to a Former Enron Executive Plus, which major collector is selling some works with his name attached and flipping others anonymously? By Katya Kazakina, Nov 8, 2021
The Art Detective Christopher Wool Used to Be the Market’s Most-Wanted Artist. Now, His Auction Sales Have Sunk by 85 Percent Seven works by Wool are hitting the block in the upcoming November evening sales in New York. But the correction has already arrived. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 1, 2021
Galleries We Got the First Look Inside Hunter Biden’s Hush-Hush Gallery Show, the Least-Seen, Most-Talked About Debut in the Art World “All the prices he's worth right now, 10 years from now that's going to be a cheap Hunter Biden painting,” Georges Bergès said. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 29, 2021
