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 14, 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 13, 2022
The Art Detective Revealed: The Biggest Consignors to the $2.9 Billion Fall Auctions in New York, From a Greek Shipping Family to a Storied Art Dealer Here's who's selling what. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 10, 2022
Auctions Paul Allen’s Masterpiece-Filled Collection Sells for $1.5 Billion at Christie’s, the Biggest Sale in Art-Market History Never before has the art market absorbed so many eight- and nine-figure works in a single night. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 9, 2022
The Art Detective The Rumor That LVMH Is Buying Gagosian Just Won’t Die. There May Be Something to It—But Not What You Think People inquiring about whether the world's largest art gallery is for sale may be asking the wrong question. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 4, 2022
Art Fairs 7 Must-See Works to Seek Out at the ADAA Art Show, From Remedios Varo’s Surrealist Scenery to Pacita Abad’s Stunning Sun Goddess The ADAA celebrates its 60th anniversary with its largest Art Show yet. By Eileen Kinsella & Katya Kazakina, Nov 3, 2022
Art Collectors A Private Museum for the ‘Phenomenal’ Art Collection of the Late Real-Estate Tycoon Sheldon Solow Is Expected to Open in 2023 The news contradicts recent rumors that the building housing the museum at 9 West 57th Street would be sold. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 3, 2022
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 13, 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