The Art Detective Paul Allen’s Collection Is the Most Expensive Ever to Come to Auction—But There’s Even More Where That Came From The late Microsoft cofounder's art collection is poised to bring in more than $1 billion—but there's at least $500 million worth leftover. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 28, 2022
The Art Detective Sculptor Carol Bove Is in High Demand, Now With a Show at Zwirner’s New Gallery in Paris. So Why Aren’t Her Auction Prices Keeping Up? “She’s one of the most significant and interesting sculptors working today,” says Catherine Craft, who curated Bove's show at the Nasher. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 21, 2022
The Art Detective Revealed: The Top Consignors to This Week’s London Auctions, Including a Whitney Trustee and Tech CEO Here's who's selling what. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 14, 2022
People Is Arne Glimcher’s New Tribeca Gallery a Vanity Project? ‘Maybe It Is,’ He Says After 62 years in the art business, the Pace Gallery founder just wants to show what he likes. He hopes you like it, too. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 4, 2022
The Art Detective Unfairly Imprisoned, He Labored on a Chain Gang for Years. Now Winfred Rembert’s Paintings About That Experience Are Selling for Nearly $300,000 Prices for the visceral art of Winfred Rembert, the late Pulitzer Prize winner, have tripled in six months. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 30, 2022
Auctions The Rarely Seen Art Collection of a Former TV Lawyer Could Sell for $100 Million at Sotheby’s David Solinger was the first non-Whitney family president of the Whitney Museum of American Art and a dedicated Ab-Ex collector. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 29, 2022
The Art Detective Why Do Artists Leave Their Galleries? It’s About Money—and a Whole Lot More The announcements of new artist-dealer relationships are coming at an increasingly fast clip. Here's what's driving the musical chairs. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 23, 2022
Market Surrealist Art Is Everywhere Right Now. The Prices Are Pretty Surreal, Too These days, surrealism is a catchall for a particular style of representational painting: figuration with a twist. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 14, 2022
Art Fairs Who Is Stanislao Lepri, the Painter and Paramour of Leonor Fini? With the Surrealist Market Heating Up, He’s Suddenly Getting the Spotlight Lepri left a career in diplomacy to pursue a life of art and love with Fini and a Polish writer. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 8, 2022
Galleries Prices? Six Figures—at Least. Waitlist? Interminable. Gagosian Is Preparing for Its Highly Anticipated Anna Weyant Solo Debut in November Galleries are trying to figure out how to handle careers of high-profile young stars in an unprecedented market moment. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 7, 2022
The Art Detective As They Arrive in New York, the Dealers Behind SprĂĽth Magers Discuss How a Gallery Can Have a ‘Cultural Footprint’ The much-admired dealers of 20th century titans are debuting in New York with an exhibition of work by John Baldessari. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 2, 2022
Market A New Exhibition in Hong Kong Aims to Boost the Market for Female Abstract Expressionists—the Ones You Know and the Ones You Don’t Art Intelligence Global is inaugurating its Hong Kong exhibition space with a showcase of five Ab-Ex artists. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 31, 2022
The Art Detective Musicians and Movie Stars Have Had Managers Forever. Now, It’s Becoming Big Business to Manage Artists, Too Longtime art advisors say that managing artists has become the fastest-growing segment of their business. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 26, 2022
The Art Detective A 54-Year-Old History Teacher in Connecticut Just Became One of the Art Market’s Fastest-Rising Stars It helps that Rob Ober was previously a collector and dealer. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 5, 2022
The Art Detective The U.S. Dollar Is the Strongest It’s Been in Two Decades. So What Does Its Growing Power Mean for the Art Market? Americans' buying power is growing fast—at least for now. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 29, 2022