The Gray Market Despite a Crypto Crash, Art’s Most Powerful Players Have Decided That NFTs Are Not a Fad and Are Very Cool Actually Our columnist unpacks the disconnect between crypto's ghastly mainstream profile and its resilience in the art establishment. By Tim Schneider, Feb 15, 2023
The Gray Market The Traditional Borders of Taste Have Melted Down. The Way We Talk About the Art Market Is Still Catching Up Lessons about presenting, marketing, and selling art from an expansive show of 'Drawing by Sculptors' at Helena Anrather gallery. By Tim Schneider, Feb 8, 2023
The Gray Market U.S. Lawmakers Are Suckers for Star Power. That’s a Big Obstacle to Reining in A.I. Image Generators Our columnist contrasts the U.S. Senate's vigorous defense of Taylor Swift fans to the silence around visual artists' rights in the A.I. era. By Tim Schneider, Feb 1, 2023
The Gray Market ChatGPT May Well Rewrite the Rules of the Art World. But Art Also Shows Us the Limits of What A.I. Can Do Our columnist digs into the art-industry impacts of ChatGPT, the A.I.-powered chatbot sparking crises across multiple walks of life. By Tim Schneider, Jan 25, 2023
The Gray Market Here’s What the Alarming Cancellation of Masterpiece London Does (And Does Not) Mean for the Art Business in 2023 As the art calendar kicks off, our columnist explains what to expect in a year full of uncertainty. By Tim Schneider, Jan 18, 2023
The Gray Market Government Regulators Are Zeroing in on the Metaverse. Digital Art Could Get Caught in the Middle Our columnist explains why art could be forced to contend with more regulatory headaches in the metaverse than anywhere else before. By Tim Schneider, Jan 11, 2023
The Back Room The Back Room: A Taste of the Future This week: a 2023 predictions sampler, Singapore’s star turn begins, a Hollywood insider banks on an art-world outsider, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jan 6, 2023
The Gray Market 8 Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2023 (Including an Art-Fair Death Foretold) Our columnist mans the fortune teller's booth again to try to envision what awaits the art world in the year ahead. By Tim Schneider, Jan 4, 2023
The Gray Market Artnet Newstradamus Tim Schneider Grades His 10 Highly Specific Art-World Predictions for 2022 Our columnist passes judgment on the predictions he made at the start of 2022 to see where he got it right and where he missed the mark. By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 2022
The Burns Halperin Report Here Are 5 Concrete DEAI Policies Other Industries Have Used Successfully That the Art World Would Do Well to Consider From childcare benefits to a reworked board structure, these measures have made a difference across the corporate world. By Tim Schneider, Dec 20, 2022
The Gray Market How Random International, Maker of the Immersive Sensation ‘Rain Room,’ Is Bringing the Experiential Art Business Into the 21st Century The 'Living Room' appears 10 years after Random International's breakout 'Rain Room'. By Tim Schneider, Dec 14, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Initial Descent? This week in the Back Room: sorting through South Florida, a rookie sensation at the Rubell, a Hong Kong competition-stoker, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Dec 9, 2022
The Gray Market Why the Crypto Winter Could Actually Be a Good Thing for Digital Art Our columnist analyzes two new nonprofit digital projects to try and chart a path out of tech's boom-and-bust cycle. By Tim Schneider, Dec 7, 2022
The Gray Market What the Colossal Failure of FTX Means for Art Basel’s Efforts to Thrust the Art Industry Into Its Crypto Era The fair is inaugurating its new blockchain-based platform Arcual while recently bankrupted FTX plunges crypto into infamy. What's the way forward? By Tim Schneider, Dec 1, 2022
Artnet News Pro Smart Contracts Are Artists’ Best Weapon in the Fight Against Flippers. Here’s How They Work Here is everything you need to know to understand smart contracts—and how they can make the market more equitable. By Tim Schneider, Nov 23, 2022