Analysis The Gray Market: Why Museums Like the Victoria & Albert Might Want to Take Political Sides (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the Victoria & Albert controversy, plus surprising turns in provenance research and the market for Felix Gonzalez-Torres. By Tim Schneider, Jun 4, 2018
Analysis Field of Dreams: Why Major League Baseball Holds the Key to Solving the Midlevel Gallery Crunch Major League Baseball used collective bargaining to go from chaos and scandal to fortune and functionality. Why can't galleries? By Tim Schneider, May 31, 2018
Art World The Gallery System Is Struggling. Here’s What It Can Learn About Sustainability From the World of Professional Sports By Tim Schneider, May 30, 2018
Analysis The Artists With the Top-Performing Auction Debuts Last Week Had One Thing in Common: They Weren’t White Men Sales data from the spring auctions show unexpectedly strong demand for artists of color and women—and not just among the stars, either. By Tim Schneider, May 25, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Portia de Rossi’s Art-Tech Startup Has a Hard Road Ahead (and Other Insights) Our columnist deconstructs Portia de Rossi's 3D edition business and the problems of crowdfunding street art with Bitcoin. By Tim Schneider, May 21, 2018
Auctions Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Takes $391 Million, Highlighted by Basquiat, Hockney, and an ‘Epic’ Kerry James Marshall Marshall now definitively joins the first order of contemporary art market stars. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, May 16, 2018
Art World A Record-Breaking Brancusi Sets the Tone for Christie’s Buoyant $415.8 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale With one-third of the lots selling above their high estimates, results were muscular—but left room for bigger dreams. By Tim Schneider, May 16, 2018
Auctions Ahead of a Marathon Auction Week, Data Shows Skyrocketing Valuations and Changing Tastes at the Market’s Peak Three data-driven takeaways from pre-sale figures for the major May auction cycle, dating from 2000 to 2018. By Tim Schneider, May 14, 2018
Auctions The Art of Storytelling (and Marketing): How Christie’s Tailored the Rockefeller Narrative to Different Audiences Around the World Working with the Rockefeller Archive Center, Christie's teased out a series of tales to give the Rockefeller collection maximum resonance the world over. By Tim Schneider, May 9, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Congressional Regulation Would Be a Gut Punch to Most American Art Dealers (and Other Insights) Our columnist on rumored Congressional regulation of the art market, the EU's new clampdown on money laundering, and TEFAF's art finance report. By Tim Schneider, May 7, 2018
Market New Report Finds Loans to Collectors Make Up 90 Percent of the $20 Billion Art Finance Market The first ever TEFAF report on art-world financing shows all but the most elite dealers still fund their business the old-fashioned way. By Tim Schneider, May 4, 2018
Art World Beyond Daisies and Kitsch: An Older, Wiser Takashi Murakami Opens Up in a Candid Q&A The world-famous artist on his technology-enabled evolution, the lessons of Willem de Kooning, and the inescapable end of everything. By Tim Schneider, May 3, 2018
On View ‘It’s About a Sort of Twisted Magic’: How One Artist at Frieze New York Is Revealing the Tricks of Racial Profiling Dave McKenzie's performance for Frieze Live addresses the shameful legacy of discriminatory policing. By Tim Schneider, May 2, 2018
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Blockbuster Museum Shows Aren’t Actually Solving the Attendance Problem (and Other Insights) Our columnist uses the National Portrait Gallery's upcoming Michael Jackson show to address the false promises of blockbuster exhibitions. By Tim Schneider, Apr 30, 2018
Analysis How Danh Vo Rocketed to Market Stardom With Art Designed to Confound Collectors As his critically acclaimed exhibition at the Guggenheim winds down, a look into what commerce can teach us about Danh Vo's standing. By Tim Schneider, Apr 27, 2018
