Opinion The Gray Market: Why Pace Gallery’s New Tech Initiative Could Worsen One Art-World Problem by Solving Another (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the likely limitations of PaceX, the mega-gallery's new initiative to expand the market for tech- and experience-based art. By Tim Schneider, Aug 19, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why This Chinese Fashion Designer Could Have a Solution for the Gallery Crisis (and Other Insights) Our columnist stress tests whether designer Guo Pei's unorthodox business model could apply to the troubled gallery sector. By Tim Schneider, Aug 5, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Late Withdrawal of Eight Artists From the Whitney Biennial Ushers in an ‘Asterisk Era’ for the Art World (and Other Insights) Our columnist considers what the recent withdrawal of eight artists from the Whitney Biennial has to do with baseball's biggest scandal. By Tim Schneider, Jul 22, 2019
Analysis What Happens When a Collector Promises to Donate an Artwork and Then Flips It at Auction Instead? It’s More Harmful Than You Think Broken promises to museums are on the rise, and the collateral damage is hurting emerging artists and galleries as much as institutions. By Tim Schneider, Jul 9, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Restoration of Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ Unveils a Core Art-Market Assumption (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the reason 'The Night Watch' restoration would be scandalous, even criminal, if it took place in another collectibles market. By Tim Schneider, Jul 8, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Data Will Never Become More Important Than Schmoozing in the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist on why art-market analytics, as popular as they have become, will never tear the social fabric holding the business together. By Tim Schneider, Jul 1, 2019
Galleries On the Hunt for Younger Talent, Hauser & Wirth Has Added Budding Market Darling Nicolas Party to Its Stable Soon the gallery may represent every single artist in the world. By Tim Schneider, Jun 26, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: How Sotheby’s Going Private Does—and Doesn’t—Limit Our Understanding of the Broader Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist on why Sotheby's stock was our best window onto the minds of the world's wealthy—and why that ended before Patrick Drahi. By Tim Schneider, Jun 24, 2019
People Who Is New Sotheby’s Owner Patrick Drahi? Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Mysterious Magnate Known as the ‘Cost Killer’ Here's everything we know about Sotheby's new owner Patrick Drahi, from his business strategies to his impulsive proposal to his wife. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Jun 20, 2019
Auctions What the Sotheby’s Sale Means for the Future of the Art Industry—and How It Reflects a Broader Shift in Global Economics Patrick Drahi's acquisition of Sotheby's is the latest in a long line of public companies-gone-private. Here's what it means. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Jun 19, 2019
Art Fairs What Can We Learn About Art Fairs From Liste, Basel’s Platform for Emerging Talent? Here Are Four Lessons Liste, the world's premier fair for emerging contemporary art, can teach fair organizers and exhibitors a few things. By Tim Schneider, Jun 13, 2019
Art World An Artist Has Recreated Famous Lost Artworks for Art Basel—and They Will Disappear Again Before the Fair Is Over Alvaro Urbano's works are on view for a limited time only. By Tim Schneider, Jun 12, 2019
Art Fairs The 6 Best—and Riskiest—Artworks at Art Basel Unlimited, Where the Fair’s Supersized Artwork Shines Among the show-stopping works is a Buddhist take on casino capitalism. By Tim Schneider & Kate Brown, Jun 11, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: How an Artist-Run Bank Reveals the Extent of the Art Market’s Debt Dependency (and Other Insights) Inspired by Daniel Edelstyn and Hilary Powell's "Bank Job," our columnist takes a high-speed tour of debt's role in the art market. By Tim Schneider, Jun 10, 2019
Art Fairs Can Art Basel Bring Foot Traffic Back to Galleries? Its Newly Enhanced App Aims to Send People to Visit Its Elite Exhibitors Around the World The Global Guide seeks to increase collectors’ engagement with participating Art Basel galleries year-round through a slate of new features. By Tim Schneider, Jun 5, 2019
