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
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Renting Art to Your Own Company Can Quickly Become an Ethical Minefield (and Other Insights) Our columnist unpacks unethical collectors' incentives to rent art to their own firms, plus a surprising lesson from the CB1 Gallery scandal. By Tim Schneider, Apr 23, 2018
Analysis 3 Ways the Art Industry Is Still Resisting Change—and Why the Market Is Doomed If It Doesn’t Catch Up We capture the three most pressing ideological tensions that came out of this year's Art Business Conference in New York. By Tim Schneider, Apr 20, 2018
Analysis How Far Has the Photography Market Really Come? Four Data-Driven Conclusions From the Spring Photo Auctions After peaking in 2013, the photography market has come full circle to its 2010 levels—and that's just the start of what we learned. By Tim Schneider, Apr 19, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Crowdfunding Could Be an Answer for Some Midsize Galleries (and Other Insights) Our columnist uses data to assess the benefits of crowdfunding galleries and considers Sotheby's return to online fees and a public art scandal. By Tim Schneider, Apr 16, 2018
Analysis How Is Western Art Really Faring in Asia? 3 Trendlines From Hong Kong’s Spring Auctions Reveal the Changing Market Asian, postwar, and fine art are by far the most bankable categories in Hong Kong. By Tim Schneider, Apr 11, 2018
Art World The Gray Market: How to Tell the Difference Between Public Art and Artistic Advertising (and Other Insights) Our columnist tackles the Peanuts murals as "public art," the MCA Chicago's new ad campaign, and a politically fraught Italian museum proposal. By Tim Schneider, Apr 9, 2018
Art World Wowed by the Auction Battle for ‘Salvator Mundi’? Hong Kong’s Epic Bidding Wars Put That to Shame A bidding war at Sotheby's Hong Kong this week lasted about as long as a network TV drama. By Tim Schneider, Apr 6, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why the Brooklyn Museum Hiring Controversy Shows We Need Structural Action on Arts Diversity (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the Brooklyn Museum's diversity hiring scandal, plus thoughts on collection-sharing agreements and authorship versus profit. By Tim Schneider, Apr 2, 2018
Art World Unable to Pay Its Mounting Debts, the Montreal Biennial Has Filed for Bankruptcy The once-ambitious international biennial filed for bankruptcy protection last month, leaving dozens of creditors in the lurch. By Tim Schneider, Mar 29, 2018
On View How Mariko Mori Used Robots and Ancient Metalwork Techniques to Create Her Latest Sculpture What happens when robots start making our art? By Tim Schneider, Mar 29, 2018