Art Fairs With Sales and Stars, the First Frieze Los Angeles Was a Major Hit. But How Much of That Was Special Effects? Our columnist peels back the euphoria around the first Frieze Los Angeles to examine the fair's prospects beyond year one. By Tim Schneider, 19 hours ago
Art Fairs Frieze Los Angeles Opens With Pop-Cultural Cachet in the Aisles, on the Stands, and in the Sales Figures The fair debuted with an impressive slate of sales, including several works that spoke directly to a hoped-for Hollywood clientele. By Tim Schneider, Feb 15, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: How the Met’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative Masks the Technology’s Larger Threats (and Other Insights) Our columnist relates the Met's partnership with Microsoft and MIT to artificial intelligence's harrowing effects on the workforce. By Tim Schneider, Feb 11, 2019
People ‘I Will Always Be Interested in What Money Does to People’: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Director Dan Gilroy on the True Value of Art Plus, the filmmaker explains why there should be a Netflix for the art world. By Tim Schneider, Feb 7, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Freeports Don’t Deserve Salvation From Stricter Regulations (and Other Insights) Our columnist refuses to cry for European freeports and ponders the upside of David Zwirner's new alliance with Simon & Schuster. By Tim Schneider, Feb 4, 2019
Analysis Here Are the 4 Major Conundrums That Will Define the Art Market of the Future, According to the Talking Galleries Symposium At this year’s Talking Galleries symposium in Barcelona, the debates boiled down to a few core issues. By Tim Schneider, Jan 29, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Government Shutdown’s End Should Be Cold Comfort to American Arts Institutions (and Other Insights) Our columnist zooms out from the government shutdown to consider the impact of decades of structural decline in federal arts funding. By Tim Schneider, Jan 28, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Asian Art Market May Not Live Up to the Western Hype After All (and Other Insights) After the cancelation of Art Stage Singapore, our columnist wonders if Western dealers have been expecting too much from Eastern expansion. By Tim Schneider, Jan 21, 2019
Art World Who Needs Assistants When You Have Robots? Jeff Koons Lays Off Dozens in a Move Toward a Decentralized, Automated Studio Practice After dozens more layoffs and a studio move, Jeff Koons appears to be done with the robust in-house workforce he was once known for. By Tim Schneider, Jan 17, 2019
Art and Law How a Legendary Alexander Calder Installation Got Ensnared in Sears’s Tortuous Bankruptcy Saga Once installed in Chicago's Sears Tower, the fate of Calder's work hangs in the balance of the retailer's bankruptcy proceedings. By Tim Schneider, Jan 17, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the New Museum’s Union Reckoning Reflects a Much Bigger Problem (and Other Insights) Our columnist zooms out from the New Museum staff's intent to unionize to the larger influence of Big Tech and big money on our world. By Tim Schneider, Jan 14, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Your Art Collection Isn’t Actually Beating the Stock Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist retrieves what's often lost in art-as-investment talk and weighs in on resistance to the Savoy-Sarr restitution report. By Tim Schneider, Jan 7, 2019
Opinion Nine Heart-Racing, Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2019 What will the coming year hold for would-be regulators, problematic museum trustees, and radical technologies? Our columnist weighs in. By Tim Schneider, Jan 2, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: 13 Analogies That Helped Make Sense of the Art Business in 2018 (and Other Insights) By Tim Schneider, Dec 31, 2018
Art World From ‘Fairtigue’ to ‘AI Art,’ Here Are 13 Terms That Changed the Art World This Decade Since the onset of the Great Recession, a whole new vocabulary has sprung up around art. By Tim Schneider, Dec 31, 2018
