Art World Wet Paint: Top Dealer Says Art Basel Must Be Cancelled This Fall, Kenny Schachter on a $16 Million Basquiat Sale, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What artist staged a sold-out solo show in her garage? What Chelsea stalwart is moving to an Upper East Side townhouse? Read on for answers! By Nate Freeman, 13 hours ago
Art World Wet Paint: Leonardo DiCaprio Flips a Work That Was Dedicated to Him, Hans-Ulrich Obrist Interviews Animals on TikTok, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip Which mega-rockstar might get a show at Gagosian? Which collector donated $1,000 to save a Williamsburg bookstore? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, May 22, 2020
Art World Have We Already Gone From a Viewing-Room Boom to Viewing-Room Gloom? The Art World Feels the Strain of Too Many Online Events All the major fairs have converted to online expos and dozens more ventures have launched. Has the digital content onslaught peaked? By Nate Freeman, May 20, 2020
People ‘It Was a Long Day’: We Spent 18 Frenzied Hours With Art Dealer Johann König as He Raced to Reopen His Berlin Gallery Post-Lockdown A day in the life of a prominent Berlin gallerist in a socially distanced art world. By Nate Freeman, May 12, 2020
Art World Wet Paint: Jordan Wolfson Really Hates the New Jordan Wolfson Documentary, a New York Gallery Defies Quarantine, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What artwork is getting flipped shamelessly at Sotheby's? Which conceptual artist built a savvy online sales platform? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, May 7, 2020
Art World This Photographer Is Taking Touching Portraits of His Creative Neighbors Hunkered Down in the Catskill Mountains—All Safely From Six Feet Away Casey Kelbaugh, a chronicler of the New York art world, fixes his lens on a small mountain community. By Nate Freeman, May 4, 2020
Art World Wet Paint: Art Advisor Philippe Ségalot Wants You to Meet His Baby Horse, Spencer Tunick Has a Risqué Zoom Scheme, & More Art-World Gossip Which celeb-critics sold a book that was personally inscribed to them by Jordan Wolfson? What artist is the face of Balenciaga? Read on! By Nate Freeman, May 1, 2020
Art Fairs The Art Market Is Hoping a Crush of Post-Lockdown Art Fairs Will Come to the Rescue This Fall. But Many Collectors Say They Won’t Go What happens to a handshake business when no handshakes are allowed? By Nate Freeman, Apr 29, 2020
Art World Wet Paint: A Pro-Trump Dealer Joins the ‘Reopen’ Protests, Mega-Galleries Lose Artists Amid Market Crunch, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip Which artist is starting a fair for art-school students? What's the wildest story about Peter Beard and the Kennedys? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Apr 23, 2020
Market The Bankerization of the Art Market: How Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe Infiltrated the Art World What happens when a market that used to be helmed by patrician connoisseurs is overrun with bankers from Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan? By Nate Freeman, Apr 22, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: Art Collector Pamela Joyner on the High-Maintenance Installation in Her Library That Took Five People a Week to Install The San Francisco-based founding partner at Avid Partners and Getty board member reveals her art-buying strategies (and obsessions). By Nate Freeman, Apr 20, 2020
Art World Wet Paint: Tico Mugrabi to Fundraise for Trump After Bonding at Camp David, Deitch’s Watering Hole Closes, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What LA dealer scrubbed shows by angry artists from his website? Which online auctioneer bilked a small Chicago nonprofit? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Apr 17, 2020
Market Are People Actually Buying Art in the Coronavirus Era? Yes—as Long as It’s by a Freshly Minted Art Star (or Being Sold at a Discount) During the first month of lockdown, few deals went down, despite a raft of new online viewing rooms. Some say the worst is yet to come. By Nate Freeman, Apr 15, 2020
Art World Wet Paint: Mary Boone Angles for Early Release From Coronavirus-Ridden Prison, Nancy Pelosi’s Art Collection Revealed, & More Art-World Gossip Where is the CEO of Sotheby's buying his emergency cases of wine? What's the last gallery in America still opening shows? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Apr 10, 2020
Galleries ‘This Happened Very, Very Fast’: Faced With Closures, Galleries Are Being Forced to Build Online Viewing Rooms Overnight—Often From Scratch Galleries once resistant to selling art online—and even some who embraced it—are reinventing their cyberspace-based marketplaces. By Nate Freeman, Apr 9, 2020
