The Gray Market How One Dog-Eat-Dog Market Proves That the Art Industry Really Doesn’t Have to Be That Way (and Other Insights) Our columnist dives into another fiercely contested specialty market and drags out an important lesson by the scruff of its neck. By Tim Schneider, 19 hours ago
The Back Room The Back Room: Return to Form This week: the eerie familiarity of the “new normal,” U.S. dealers regain their footing, the Rubells’ always-churning star machine, and more. By Tim Schneider, Jul 23, 2021
The Gray Market Why U.S. Business Trends Suggest the Pandemic Changed Far Less Than Predicted About the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist shows how 2021 is defying popular predictions about remote work and urban migration in epicenters of U.S. wealth. By Tim Schneider, Jul 21, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Go Figure The flagging(?) market for figurative art, Hunter Biden as artist’s rights case study, Christie’s private-sales surge, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jul 16, 2021
The Gray Market How Hunter Biden’s Ethics Agreement Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Rising Artists (and Other Insights) Our columnist thinks through the curious ethics agreement between the presidential progeny’s gallery and the White House. By Tim Schneider, Jul 14, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Changing the Game Art whales splash into sports memorabilia, information (and NFTs) don’t want to be free, Dana Schutz’s market conquers all, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jul 9, 2021
The Gray Market How the $5.4 Million World Wide Web NFT Lays Bare the Promises and Lies of the Crypto-Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines whether information really wants to be free, or if that old ruse suggests a deeper problem. By Tim Schneider, Jul 7, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: A Post-Auction World This week: Ex-Sotheby’s collaborators get competitive, an overseas auction cheat sheet, the next million-dollar millennial artist, and more. By Tim Schneider, Jul 2, 2021
The Gray Market What Goldman Sachs’s Florida Expansion Tells Us About the Future of the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees the mega-bank’s plans for West Palm Beach as the latest sign the South Florida art market is here to stay. By Tim Schneider, Jun 23, 2021
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, Jun 21, 2021
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
