Studio Visit Step Inside Anna Park’s Bushwick Studio, Where She Creates Portraits of Her Alter Ego With the Help of Diet Coke, Gummies, and ‘Gilmore Girls’ We caught up with the artist as she prepared for her first show in Los Angeles. By Naomi Rea, Nov 15, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: One Point Five Billion Dollars This week: Christie’s makes auction history, a Frida Kahlo legal conundrum, trophy lots keep rising, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Nov 11, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Fighting the Flippers This week: new resistance against rapid resales, a national shakeup at auction, Henry Taylor gets down to earth, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Nov 4, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Beyond Imagination This week: A.I. upending the art-making business, a new Castelli to know, an antiquities reckoning, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Oct 28, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Paris Goes Boom This week: Paris+ gets in the game, Gilbert and George get anti-woke, a trustee gets auction-y, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Oct 21, 2022
Art Fairs Thronged by Collectors and the City’s Intelligentsia, Paris+ Opens to Buzzing Business—Even If Sales Are Slow on the Highest End The calibre of VIPs was high and dealers were exuberant about first-day sales. By Naomi Rea, Oct 19, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Keep Calm and Carry Cash This week, Frieze London in a flash, Paris+ on the horizon, Lucian Freud up for reappraisal, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Oct 14, 2022
Auctions Casual Vibes and an Absence of Fireworks Marked Christie’s $82.2 Million Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in London David Hockney’s muted landscape fetched the highest price of the night. By Naomi Rea, Oct 13, 2022
Art Fairs Frieze Opens to a Flood of Hungry Collectors, Calming Fears That Competition From Art Basel’s New Paris Fair Would Tank Attendance Americans, largely absent at last year's fair, were taking advantage of the dollar's strength before heading to Paris. By Naomi Rea, Oct 12, 2022
NFTs Damien Hirst Just Burned Millions of Dollars Worth of His Art in Front of Gleeful Onlookers. Here’s What His Collectors Had to Say About It We braved the furnace flames so you didn't have to. By Naomi Rea, Oct 12, 2022
People ‘The More You Shut Up, the Better’: Painter Adrian Ghenie on Giving Up Trying to Control His Frankenstein’s Monster of an Art Market The artist opens up on the eve of a new solo exhibition in London. By Naomi Rea, Oct 10, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Out With the Old This week: a new museum deaccessioning standard, Frank Stella’s extended family drama, bidders go gaga for Kaga, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Oct 7, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions A New Show Looks at the Idea of Twins in Art, Showing Pairs of Work Born of the Same Concept "Same Same" is on view at Sid Motion Gallery through October 22. By Naomi Rea, Oct 4, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Bet on Betrayal This week: why artists leave their galleries, a Cuban art gem hits the block, a mega-gallery bankrolls a literary mag, and much more. By Naomi Rea, Sep 30, 2022
Art Fairs At a Famous Florence Old Masters Fair, Italy’s Impending Elections Have Dealers Fretting About the Future of Its Art Market At BIAF, dealers expressed both hope and fear over an expected right-wing win. By Naomi Rea, Sep 23, 2022
