The Art Detective Mark Rothko’s Abstract Art Has Fallen Out of Fashion. Here’s How a Cohort of Industry Players Is Working to Revive His Market With a new show at Pace and two major works heading to auction, the appetite for art by the Abstract Expressionist is being tested anew. By Katya Kazakina, 1 day ago
Artnet News Pro How K-Pop Star Choi Seung-hyun (Better Known as T.O.P) Turned a Generation of Music Fans Into Art Aficionados In his first interview in years, Choi Seung-hyun offers exclusive insight into his journey to art collecting—and his big ambitions. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 8, 2021
The Art Detective Adam Pendleton Is Very Good at Saying No. But Can He Fend Off the Market Frenzy That Follows a Major MoMA Show? The monumental show "Who Is Queen?" is likely to push the artist's career and prices to new levels, while testing his ability to control both. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 4, 2021
Auctions Andy Warhol’s Ghostly Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat Is Heading to Christie’s With a $20 Million Estimate The work, from the collection of Peter Brant, is the latest high-profile Warhol to be added to the fall season lineup. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 4, 2021
The Art Detective The Met Eyes the Sale of Picasso’s First Cubist Sculpture as It Works to Claw Its Way Out of a $150 Million Revenue Shortfall We reveal the priciest work that the Met is considering selling. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 24, 2021
Art Fairs Is This the Most Expensive Work at Art Basel? One Dealer Has Brought a $40 Million Fresh-to-Market Painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat Works by the late artist continue to dominate collectors' wish lists. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 20, 2021
The Art Detective Could the Breuer Building Become a ‘Really Ritzy Gym’? Investors Eye the Famed Property as the Whitney Weighs a Sale The clock is ticking to make a decision, and the factors at play are complex. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 20, 2021
Market The Met Museum Is Deaccessioning $1 Million Worth of Photos and Prints to Fill a Revenue Shortfall Caused by the Pandemic Works by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Frank, and a trove of Civil War photos are all hitting the block. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 17, 2021
The Art Detective ‘The Demand Is Off the Charts’: At the Independent Fair, Young Figurative Painters Steal the Show (and Draw Mile-Long Wait Lists) Independent offered a peek at the dynamics shaping the broader art market today. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 10, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Sell the $600 Million Collection of Divorcing Couple Harry and Linda Macklowe, the Market’s Most Coveted Consignment in Years Sotheby's and Christie's both competed fiercely for the consignment, which represents the biggest test of the market since the pandemic. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 9, 2021
The Art Detective As the Met Prepares an Action-Packed Fall Season, Museum Director Max Hollein Talks Deaccessioning, NFTs, and Chuck Close The Met's director offers a peek at the art season ahead—and meditates on the turbulence of the past 18 months. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 3, 2021
Market Consolidating Art-Market Power, Dealers Lévy Gorvy, Salon 94, and Amalia Dayan Merge to Form an Upper East Side Empire The joint venture, which came as a surprise to many of the galleries' artists, is called LGDR. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 1, 2021
Market Art Basel Executive Noah Horowitz Is Joining Sotheby’s as a Gallery Whisperer, the Latest Sign of Collapsing Categories in the Industry The well-respected art-fair veteran will be tasked with "building out Sotheby's relationships with galleries and dealers." By Katya Kazakina, Aug 20, 2021
The Art Detective How David Zwirner’s Click-to-Buy E-Commerce Company Evolved From a Goodwill Project Into a Money-Making Machine The company says it has sold around 50 percent of the 282 artworks it has offered in its first three months. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 19, 2021
The Art Detective Inside the Epic Auction-House Battle to Win Divorcing Couple Harry and Linda Macklowe’s Peerless $700 Million Art Collection Find out which auction house has the edge on selling off the collection that has set art-market tongues wagging for years. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 12, 2021
