The Art Detective ‘Gmail Art Advisors’ Are a Pestilence on the Market. Luckily, They Are Starting to Melt Away, One by One Who are these speculative intermediaries who materialize in boom times to make a quick buck? “They appear out of the blue and often vanish into the mist.” By Katya Kazakina, 2 days ago
The Art Detective Her Art Was Once Viewed as “Obscene.” Now Martha Edelheit’s Nudes Are Finally Gaining Acclaim After Decades in Obscurity By Katya Kazakina, Jan 27, 2023
The Art Detective The L.A. Art Scene Is Expanding in Time for the Frieze Art Fair Amidst a Billionaire Scion’s Bold Investment in an Up-And-Coming Area Melrose Hill is the city's latest hot neighborhood for galleries as the local art ecosystem continues to stretch and strengthen. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 19, 2023
The Art Detective ‘The Party’s Over’: Art Market Players Brace for an Anxious 2023 Amidst Slower Sales, Growing Discounts A variety of elements in play suggest this could be a dicey year for the art industry. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 12, 2023
Galleries Sukanya Rajaratnam, a Change-Making Dealer Who Brought Overlooked Artists to Mnuchin Gallery, Is Departing After 15 Years The veteran dealer brought previously marginalized black and female artists into the gallery's blue-chip fold. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 8, 2023
The Art Detective The High-Flying Basquiat Market Fell Off a Cliff Last Year. Why? The artist's auction market plummeted 50 percent in 2022, a dizzying fall from its much-ballyhooed peak of a year prior. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 5, 2023
The Burns Halperin Report Who’s Afraid of Women of a Certain Age? The Market Still Dramatically Undervalues Female Artists—But There’s More to the Story The auction market for Pablo Picasso is larger than that for all female artists over the past 14 years. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 23, 2022
The Art Detective Someone Pretended to Be a Mexican Media Mogul in Order to Buy In-Demand Contemporary Art—and Almost Duped Top Dealers It's really hard to get access to the most coveted contemporary art. That's why someone posed as a top collector—and almost got away with it. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 9, 2022
Art Fairs At Art Basel Miami Beach, a Tale of Two Markets: Lean at the Top, But Robust on the Lower End Galleries found success with smaller-scale and more modestly priced work. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 1, 2022
Artnet News Pro See How 11 Red-Hot Artists’ Primary Market Prices Compare With Their Auction Results Here's what the data shows. By Eileen Kinsella & Katya Kazakina, Nov 25, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Sold More Than $2 Billion Worth of Art in New York, But Its 20th and 21st Century Auctions Had Major Disappointments A De Kooning, estimated in excess of $35 million and guaranteed by the auction house, failed to find a buyer, and several works were withdrawn before the auctions started. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 18, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Notches $315 Million in a Fireworks-Free Contemporary Art Evening Sale Double-Header Andy Warhol’s monumental car crash silkscreen from 1963 was the top lot of the night. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 16, 2022
Market A Hack Has Revealed What Many Long Suspected: The Owners of Auction Houses Are Also Some of Their Best Customers After a leak revealed Sotheby's owner Patrick Drahi's extensive art purchases, some say he should have disclosed them earlier. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 16, 2022
Artnet News Pro ‘It’s Movie-Star Money From the 1980s’: Stefan Simchowitz, the Original Art Flipper, on How Artists Are Cashing In on Speculation The man who ushered in the flipping craze in the 2010s reflects on how the practice has changed—and metastasized. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 15, 2022
Artnet News Pro The Fight Against Flippers: How Artists and Dealers Are Trying to Beat Speculators at Their Own Game Rampant speculation has turned the market for emerging art upside down. Now, artists are determined to wrest back control. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 14, 2022
