Galleries Nan Goldin, the U.S. Artist Whose Salient Activism Took Down the Sacklers, Has Ditched Dealer Marian Goodman to Work With Gagosian The move is another blow for Goldin's former New York gallery. By Katya Kazakina, Mar 29, 2023
The Art Detective What Makes the Property-Brokering, Painting-Hoovering Art King of Tribeca so Unusual? He’s a Genuinely Good Guy Working at the intersection of art and real estate, you'd expect Jonathan Travis to be a cut-throat wheeler-dealer. Not this time. By Katya Kazakina, Mar 24, 2023
The Art Detective A Wall Street Billionaire Shot Himself in His Family Office. His Death Is Reverberating in the Museum World, and the Art Market The legacy of the late buyout tycoon and philanthropist Thomas H. Lee is in the process of being written. By Katya Kazakina, Mar 3, 2023
The Art Detective Last Year’s Art Stars Make Way for Even Younger, Cheaper Debutants in London’s Auctions as ‘Voracious’ Speculators Seek New Blood For some flippers, even the hottest artists can have a short shelf life as the hunt for arbitrage opportunities drives them onward. By Katya Kazakina, Feb 24, 2023
The Art Detective Gerhard Richter’s Market Is Abuzz Following His Breakup With Dealer Marian Goodman. Here’s the Story Behind the Art World’s Most Shocking Defection It's a tale of two nonagenarian postwar art titans, the art market, and an unquenchable ambition for greatness. By Katya Kazakina, Feb 17, 2023
The Art Detective High-Flying Charity Auctions Help the Causes the Art World Supports. But Who Do They Actually Benefit? For artists, at least, charity auctions can be a chance for their markets to soar—or fly too high to the sun. By Katya Kazakina, Feb 10, 2023
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, Feb 3, 2023
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
