The Back Room The Back Room: Compare and Contrast This week: a big-picture Frieze breakdown, advisors and dealers form major new alliances, a glaring museum-tech divide, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 15, 2021
Artnet News Pro The Art World’s Technological Revolution Is Coming. Here’s What a Truly Networked Art Market Will Look Like Here are five innovations that will push the market into the future. By Tim Schneider, Oct 13, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Turn and Face the Change This week in the Back Room: the next generation of art institutions, ultra-contemporary lots outsprint the field, mega-galleries chase crypto cool, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 8, 2021
The Gray Market Why A.I. Art Authentication Isn’t Necessarily the Game-Changer the Industry Wants It to Be (and Other Insights) Our columnist writes up a non-techie's guide to A.I. attribution research using a freshly disputed Rubens painting. By Tim Schneider, Oct 6, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: The Center Cannot Hold This week in the Back Room: Hong Kong’s internal struggle, dealers behaving badly, the grounding of global art travel, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 1, 2021
Art & Tech The Duo That Invented the Art World’s First Crypto Platform in 2014 Is Back With a Tool to Help Galleries Launch Their Own NFT Marketplaces Monegraph has released a software suite called Readymade NFT that enables crypto newcomers to buy, sell, and distribute NFTs with art-specific customizations. By Tim Schneider, Sep 30, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Art Industry Should Brace Itself for the Permanent Staycation Era (and Other Insights) After surveying the travel landscape, our columnist finds the strong Euro flavor of Art Basel 2021 is a taste of more regionalism to come. By Tim Schneider, Sep 29, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: A Post-American Art World? This week: Euro buying boosts Basel, the young artist with a 196-strong waitlist, the global market’s first-half rebound, and more. By Tim Schneider, Sep 24, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Wave of Climate-Crisis Art Is More Than Just Virtue-Signaling, Even If It’s Not Enough (and Other Insights) Our columnist asks who will follow the lead of artists confronting collectors with the ecological crisis at even the most commercial events. By Tim Schneider, Sep 22, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Things Fall Apart This week: the twilight(?) of the art-fair industrial complex, inside MOCA’s executive drama, how to raise an artist from the dead, and more. By Tim Schneider, Sep 17, 2021
The Gray Market How the ‘Platform Delusion’ of Big Tech Helps Explain Why Galleries Are Finally Turning Away From Big Art Fairs (and Other Insights) Our columnist transports lessons from a new book on Silicon Valley that clarify galleries' growing hesitance around fairs. By Tim Schneider, Sep 15, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: New Steps in Old Spaces This week in the Back Room: Art Basel’s about-face, August’s unexpected auction king, Hollein holds forth, and much more By Tim Schneider, Sep 10, 2021
The Gray Market Why Art Basel’s $1.6 Million ‘Solidarity Fund’ Creates One of the Most Compelling Social Experiments in Art-Market History (And Other Insights) Our columnist uses news of Art Basel's unprecedented, late-breaking package of exhibitor benefits to vault toward the bigger picture. By Tim Schneider, Sep 8, 2021
Art Fairs Art Basel Just Created a $1.6 Million ‘Solidarity Fund’ to Calm Uneasy Exhibitors Two Weeks Ahead of Its Marquee Swiss Fair A letter to exhibitors on Monday also announced the fair would cover hotel and rebooking costs for gallery staff who test positive. By Tim Schneider, Sep 6, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Unite and Conquer This week: four blue-chip dealers join forces, live art fairs step up to the starting blocks, NFTs go Hollywood, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Sep 3, 2021