The Art Detective Why the Biggest Blue-Chip Art Collectors in the World Are Suddenly Pumping Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Into Baseball Cards Baseball, basketball, and hockey cards are now fetching as much as works by Alexander Calder and George Condo. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 8, 2021
The Art Detective ‘There’s Much Less Order Than Ever Before’: Auction Houses Are Entering the Post-Lockdown Era—But They’ll Never Be the Same Market share is shifting from West to East and an evening sale doesn't mean what it used to. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 1, 2021
Artnet News Pro A Painting by Flora Yukhnovich Just Sold for $1.2 Million, More Than 12X Its Estimate. Now the Art World Wants to Know: Who Is She? The estimate-busting work at Phillips New York is only the third work by the young U.K. artist ever to come to auction. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 28, 2021
People We Spoke to Hunter Biden About His New Life as a Full-Time Artist, and His Personal Quest for ‘Universal Truth’ Through Painting Ahead of his official debut as an exhibiting artist, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden tells us about what is driving his new career. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 14, 2021
The Art Detective What Is the World’s Top Mega-Gallery? We Crunched the Numbers—and No, It’s Not the One You Think We examined the size of galleries' rosters, their combined square footage, and more to determine who emerged from the pandemic on top. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 10, 2021
The Art Detective Marlborough Reborn? How New York’s Most Troubled Art Gallery May Be Clawing Its Way Out of the Grave Infighting nearly brought the gallery to the brink of extinction. But now, a new C.E.O. may breathe life back into the legendary gallery. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 3, 2021
The Art Detective Out of Fashion Her Whole Life, Alice Neel’s Figurative Art Is Now a Sensation. But Where Is Her Market—and Who Are Her Buyers—Today? One dealer recalls an artist finding two Alice Neel works on the sidewalk in the days when few cared for her art. By Katya Kazakina, May 27, 2021
Artnet News Pro Signaling Growing Consolidation, London’s Fine Art Group Acquires One of America’s Largest Art Advisories The newly expanded Fine Art Group will grow its presence in the U.S. By Katya Kazakina, May 24, 2021
Artnet News Pro This Mega-Collector Bought $100 Million Worth of Art at Last Week’s Auctions, Including Basquiat’s $50 Million Take on the Medicis The same buyer also offloaded a few lower-priced works. By Katya Kazakina, May 20, 2021
The Art Detective The Dawn of the ‘Art Bros’: How Keyed-In Gen Z Investors Are Moving the Markets for Emerging Artists From Their Laptops Against the backdrop of a democratization of the financial world, a new, profit-hungry generation of buyers is betting on art. By Katya Kazakina, May 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro Who Bought Elizabeth Peyton’s $2.1 Million David Bowie Portrait at Sotheby’s? This NFT Collector Diversifying Into Blue-Chip Art Dealers and auction houses hope that more crypto millionaires will transition into traditional collecting categories. By Katya Kazakina, May 18, 2021
The Art Detective Revealed: The Biggest Consignors to This Week’s Spring Auctions, From a Blue-Chip Artist to a Financier Offloading 19 Works We bring you the inside scoop on who is selling what. By Katya Kazakina, May 13, 2021
Auctions New York’s Auction Week Comes Roaring Back to Life at Christie’s $211 Million Contemporary Sale, Led by a Prized Basquiat Skull Painting Plus, a pixelated 'Cryptopunks' NFT sold for $16.9 million. By Katya Kazakina, May 11, 2021
Artnet News Pro Looking for the Next Big Thing? Here Are 6 Rising-Star Artists to Seek Out at Frieze New York 2021 We scoured the aisles at Frieze New York to find the most exciting emerging figures. By Julia Halperin & Katya Kazakina & Eileen Kinsella, May 7, 2021
Art Fairs ‘What the F*ck Is This?’: Beeple Was in an Ebullient Mood at Frieze New York, If a Bit Perplexed by Some of the Art Where he lives, he said, "no one cares about art.” By Katya Kazakina, May 6, 2021
