Analysis How Dealers Are (Slowly) Rebooting Their Businesses to Take Software-Based Art Mainstream At Art Basel 2018, there are signs the art market is finding a language to contextualize technology. By Tim Schneider, Jun 14, 2018
Art World See These 5 Show-Stopping Works at Art Basel Unlimited 2018 To join the conversation around curator Gianni Jetzer's latest edition of Art Basel Unlimited, add these works to your must-see list. By Tim Schneider, Jun 12, 2018
Art World Motivated by ‘Rage and Hopelessness,’ Robert Longo Takes Aim at American Gun Violence in an Epic Work for Art Basel The monumental sculpture at the fair's Unlimited section is made of 40,000 shell casings. By Tim Schneider, Jun 11, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why the Art Market Should Heed Warren Buffett’s Warning About ‘Short-Termism’ (and Other Insights) Our columnist warns you shouldn't read too much into a gallery's sales at Art Basel and the pressure to make the cut at a mega fair. By Tim Schneider, Jun 11, 2018
Analysis Asia Has Officially Fallen for Contemporary Art: Postwar Sales Have Doubled as Collectors Chase the Hottest Names in Hong Kong Bidders' preference for postwar art reached an all-time high in 2018. By Tim Schneider, Jun 5, 2018
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