The Gray Market How a Scandal in the Record-Collecting Industry Illuminates Why the Art Trade Is So Often Backward-Looking (and Other Insights) Our columnist excavates an evergreen lesson for the art world from an "existential crisis" in the market for high-end vinyl. By Tim Schneider, 2 days ago
The Back Room The Back Room: Dollar Days This week: the U.S. dollar flexes its muscle, the Hamptons get scandalous, "The Currency" maths out, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Aug 5, 2022
The Gray Market The Art Industry Is Sabotaging Itself With Faulty Data. Here Are 4 Information Blind Spots Worth Correcting (and Other Insights) Our columnist shows the flaws in the art business's constant growth agenda, and where else alternative data could rescue the trade. By Tim Schneider, Aug 3, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Northeastern Promises This week: Maine’s market moment, Barbara Kruger’s auction ascent, European biennials barge back into the news cycle, and more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Jul 29, 2022
The Gray Market Why Artists and Curators Are Essential to Building a Metaverse That Will Do More Than Make Mark Zuckerberg Rich (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains the folly of letting better headsets and other products determine when we're officially living rich virtual lives. By Tim Schneider, Jul 27, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Brave New World This week: the covert business of A.I. art generators, the verdict on a new art-world nightlife hub, the uncertainty in June’s auction results, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Jul 22, 2022
The Gray Market DALL-E’s Astonishing Images Mask That Art Is Just Another Pawn in Silicon Valley’s Endgame (and Other Insights) Our columnist unravels how DALL-E and other A.I.-driven content generators fit into Big Tech’s grand business plan. By Tim Schneider, Jul 20, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Rhythm and Seoul This week: Seoul’s global gallery scene, the culture sector’s post-COVID building boom, and Caroline Walker heats up the auction houses. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Jul 15, 2022
The Gray Market Why Better Artist Resale Royalties Are an Opportunity for Better Business in the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains why it hurts almost all market players to portray resale royalties as a zero-sum game. By Tim Schneider, Jul 13, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Generation Gap This week: age-based divides among women artists, Stanley Whitney’s sharp ascent, a Belgian newbie bubbles up, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Jul 8, 2022
The Gray Market Corporations Are Writing the Rules of the Metaverse as We Speak. If the Art World Wants a Say, It Needs to Hurry Up (and Other Insights) Our columnist unmasks the risks to culture hidden in the dominant vision of the metaverse now being sold to the public. By Tim Schneider, Jul 6, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Stiff Upper Lip London’s eye-of-the-beholder auctions, Aboudia’s serious fanbase, crypto art’s next rising star, and much more By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Jul 1, 2022
The Gray Market How Former G.E. CEO Jack Welch Altered the Art Market for Better and for Worse (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines the impact of a ruthless corporate titan on the modern economy, wealth distribution, and the business of art. By Tim Schneider, Jun 29, 2022
Art Fairs The Most Boundary-Pushing Artworks at Art Basel, From a Transcendent Mark Lecky Video to a Poignant Arthur Jafa Work Seek out this quintet of pathbreaking works inside the latest edition of Switzerland's—and arguably the world's—premier art fair. By Tim Schneider, Jun 17, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Pacific Pivot This week: two weeks of Asian market milestones, the Big Three’s big May, Old Masters running in place, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Jun 3, 2022
