Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Drawings Collector Jack Shear on His Best Antique-Store Find and the 20th Century’s Most Underrated Artist We caught up with the gimlet-eyed curator to learn about his journey through the buy side of the art world. By Tim Schneider, 15 hours ago
The Back Room The Back Room: Billions and Billions Served This week in the Back Room: Billionaires give and take, Banksy prints go berserk, bidders chase youth, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jun 18, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Myth of the ‘Good Billionaire’ Is Undermining the Nonprofit and For-Profit Art Industry Alike (and Other Insights) Our columnist shows how a new investigation into legal tax avoidance by the wealthiest Americans hurts art from all sides. By Tim Schneider, Jun 16, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Crypto Ain’t Dead Yet This week: An NFT market correction, Kenny Schachter radios in from the crypto frontier, mega-galleries jostle for supremacy, and more. By Tim Schneider, Jun 11, 2021
The Gray Market Why Beeple’s ‘Everydays’ Could Be the $69.3 Million Key to Lucrative Venture Capital Investments (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains how Vignesh Sundaresan (AKA Metakovan) may be following an old path for turning art collecting into business growth. By Tim Schneider, Jun 9, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Counting Galleries’ Money This week in the Back Room: Dealer salaries, surveyed; Marlborough Gallery, resurrected; U.S. museums, stabilized(?); and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jun 4, 2021
The Gray Market What a Travel Company’s ‘Decolonization Project’ Can Teach Us About the Limits of Equity in the Art Market, Too (and Other Insights) Our columnist equates Atlas Obscura's sweeping review of its travel writing to the art trade's diversity, equity, and inclusion drive. By Tim Schneider, Jun 2, 2021
Market The Back Room: Punking the Market This week in the Back Room: Crypto-friction at Christie’s, a record store’s lessons for dealers, Alice Neel (finally) gets her due, and much more. By Tim Schneider, May 28, 2021
The Gray Market What Art Dealers Can Learn From a Revered Underground Record Store’s Move to the Heart of Manhattan (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines Rough Trade’s migration to Midtown and its value in helping dealers think through similar post-shutdown challenges. By Tim Schneider, May 26, 2021
Market The Back Room: Asia Major This week in the Back Room: Asian collectors to the fore, “art bros” on the rise, Chinese auction sales bounce back big, and much more By Tim Schneider, May 21, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Art Market Is Colliding With Investors’ Biggest, Weirdest New Fixation (and No, It’s Not Crypto) Our columnist connects the dots between SPACs, NFTs, Paul Ryan, Emily Ratajkowski, and, of course, New Jersey’s Hometown Deli. By Tim Schneider, May 19, 2021
Market The Back Room: A Macro View of the Spring Auctions This week in the Back Room: A mad dash through the auctions, a major U.S. dealer goes bicoastal, Frank Bowling wins the long game, and more. By Tim Schneider, May 14, 2021
The Gray Market What Spotify’s Broken Artist-Royalty Model Can Teach Us About Inequities in the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist investigates the British government's dust-up with the music-streaming service and what it can teach the art world. By Tim Schneider, May 12, 2021
Market The Back Room: The Inaugural Edition(!) This week in the Back Room: Frieze NY in a flash, a divorce boom makes waves, a fractional art investment primer, and more—all in 7-minutes. By Tim Schneider, May 7, 2021
The Gray Market The Gray Market: Why NFTs Aren’t the Solution to Museums’ Deaccessioning Dilemmas or Any Other Big Problems, Either (and Other Insights) Our columnist explores the prospect of major U.S. museums fundraising by issuing NFTs of world-renowned works—and why it's a distraction. By Tim Schneider, May 5, 2021
