Market How an Artist Named Mr. Doodle Became a Multimillion-Dollar Auction Sensation With a Bunch of Squiggles and ‘Like’-able Branding Powered by towering sales results in Asia and millions of social followers, Mr. Doodle has quietly taken the auction market by storm. By Tim Schneider, Mar 1, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why ‘Global Weirding’ Makes Art Museums Needier Than Ever for Unglamorous Donations (and Other Insights) Our columnist connects a devastating winter storm in Texas, climate change, and a longstanding drought within cultural philanthropy. By Tim Schneider, Feb 22, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How Public-Health Data Can Help Us Predict the Future of Art-Market Recovery (and Other Insights) Our columnist looks at how major differences in US and international inoculation campaigns are threatening to keep the art world off its axis. By Tim Schneider, Feb 8, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Big Money Is Urging the Art Industry to Get Loud About Going Green (and Other Insights) A slew of major finance and business moves convince our columnist the arts should get seriously transparent about climate action now. By Tim Schneider, Feb 1, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Young People Are Skipping the Art Market to Buy Stock in GameStop (and Other Insights) Our columnist uses GameStop's historic surge to break down why Wall Street has outperformed the art trade in attracting young investors. By Tim Schneider, Jan 25, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Silicon Valley Is Not Going to Be Able to Save In-Person Art Fairs in 2021 (and Other Insights) Our columnist dissects what the newly announced Vaccination Credential Initiative would—and wouldn’t—mean for IRL art fairs. By Tim Schneider, Jan 18, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: Why a New Raid on Activists Means Hong Kong’s Days as an International Art Market Are Numbered (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees trouble approaching Western art businesses after a recent spate of political arrests in Hong Kong. By Tim Schneider, Jan 11, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: 10 Daring and Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2021 (and Other Insights) Fresh off a chaotic 2020, our columnist boldly attempts to chart the ever-turning art world’s orbit in the new year. By Tim Schneider, Jan 4, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How My 7 Highly Specific Art-Industry Predictions for 2020 Worked Out (and Other Insights) Upholding an annual tradition, our columnist tests the sturdiness of his tea leaves at the end of a year like no other. By Tim Schneider, Dec 28, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why a Colossal Hack of US Interests Should Wake Up the Art Industry to Cybersecurity Threats (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees the breach of SolarWinds as a red alert about the heightened danger of cybercrime in the work-from-home era. By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: Former IBM Executive Marilyn Johnson on the Advantage of Hanging Art in the Laundry Room Top collectors share their strategies (and obsessions). By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Bob Dylan’s $300 Million Windfall Debunks the Myth of the Sellout Artist (and Other Insights) Our columnist uses the sale of Dylan’s songwriting catalog to show artists have little to fear from aggressively monetizing their practice. By Tim Schneider, Dec 14, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Art Market Shouldn’t Worry That the Film Industry Is Undergoing a Home-Viewing Revolution (and Other Insights) Our columnist unspools the art-world implications of Warner Bros.’s choice to stream its 2021 films on HBO Max as soon as they hit theaters. By Tim Schneider, Dec 7, 2020
Auctions Bidders at the Big Three Auction Houses Are Overwhelmingly Male. Why? Women May Have a Different Sense of Art’s Value Interviews with those in the trade suggest that women collectors are more interested in creating value than buying trophies. By Julia Halperin & Tim Schneider, Dec 2, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Corporate Collections Are Thriving While Museums Starve (and Other Insights) Our columnist digs into history to unearth the reasons major banks are filling the cultural void left by struggling institutions. By Tim Schneider, Nov 23, 2020