Galleries Want Your Stingel With a Side of Pasta? Gagosian Expands in Beverly Hills by Going Halfsies With a New Italian Restaurant The mega-gallery will share a 9,500-square-foot space with the star pasta chef starting in 2020. By Tim Schneider, Apr 4, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Sackler Philanthropy ‘Halt’ Could Mean Even Bigger Changes for Museum Funding (and Other Insights) How the “Overton Window” theory in politics applies to recent trends in arts philanthropy. By Tim Schneider, Apr 1, 2019
On View A New Bronx Exhibition Celebrates Uselessness With a Suitcase That Poops and Other Unhelpful Art These machines and machine-made art provide a philosophical counter to our market-driven economy. By Tim Schneider, Mar 28, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Gagosian’s Record-Breaking Online Sale of an Albert Oehlen Painting Sets a ‘Very Juicy Precedent’ (and Other Insights) Our columnist analyzes Gagosian's latest version of its online viewing room, and the sale that just broke the artist's $4.7 million auction record. By Tim Schneider, Mar 25, 2019
Market ‘Contemporary Artist’ Means Everyone From Andy Warhol to Avery Singer. Here’s a New Category for the Art of Our Time The artnet Intelligence Report brings a bit of market clarity for artists born after 1974 by giving them their own category. By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Mar 21, 2019
Art & Exhibitions Why Should Only Wealthy People Get to Donate Art? These Artists Want to Make the 99 Percent Donors, Too Artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy combine an essay contest, a mysterious film, and a blockchain to shift the debate about arts patronage. By Tim Schneider, Mar 20, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: What the ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ College Admission Scandal Has to Do With the Art World (and Other Insights) Our columnist connects CalArts $50,850 annual tuition to the celebrity-ensnaring college-admissions scandal and an American aristocracy. By Tim Schneider, Mar 18, 2019
Market The Much-Hyped Chinese Art Market’s Best Days May Already Be Gone, a New Study Says TEFAF's new report on the Chinese art market sees trouble ahead for homegrown contemporary artworks, fairs, and private museums alike. By Tim Schneider, Mar 15, 2019
Market The Auction Price of an Artwork Is Directly Related to How Much Blue or Red Is in It, a New Study Finds Blue and red actually make green, it seems. By Tim Schneider, Mar 13, 2019
Art Fairs Are We at ‘Peak Art Fair’? Collectors and Advisors Say They’re Hitting Their Saturation Point—and Something’s Got to Give In the wake of a thinner-than-usual Armory Week, collectors and advisors reflect on the shifting art-fair landscape. By Julia Halperin & Tim Schneider, Mar 11, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Michael Jackson and ‘Leaving Neverland’ Matter to the Art World (and Other Insights) Our columnist draws uncomfortable parallels between the art world and Michael Jackson's legacy in the wake of the harrowing new documentary. By Tim Schneider, Mar 11, 2019
Art Fairs Best Buys: Eight Artists at Independent to Collect for Under $15,000 (If You’re Lucky and Move Fast) There are some really excellent works on offer in the fair this year, but they won't be available for long. By Taylor Dafoe & Tim Schneider, Mar 7, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Damien Hirst’s $200,000-Per-Weekend ‘Empathy Suite’ Is Like ‘Salvator Mundi’ (and Other Insights) Our columnist explores the business behind Damien Hirst's wild Las Vegas suite and SFMOMA's choice to deaccession a major Mark Rothko. By Tim Schneider, Mar 4, 2019
On View Alan Moore’s ‘Watchmen,’ a Killer Cop’s Ghost, and the Blue Lives Matter Movement Collide in a Politically Charged Gallery Show At Koenig & Clinton, the artist known as American Artist has created a surreal police-training seminar to expose the double standard of Blue Lives Matter. By Tim Schneider, Mar 1, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Strong 2018 Earnings Are Propelled by Record Private Sales and a Strong Showing in Asia The auction house expects more strong growth in 2019 through its continued focus on Asian clients, estates, and the middle market. By Tim Schneider, Feb 28, 2019