Opinion The Gray Market: Why Endeavor’s Aborted IPO Is—and Isn’t—Like a ‘Burned’ Auction Lot (and Other Insights) Our columnist on what the art market can learn from how the financial markets process the delayed IPO of Frieze's majority owner, Endeavor. By Tim Schneider, Sep 30, 2019
Analysis Frieze’s Majority Owner, the Hollywood Colossus Endeavor, Is About to Go Public. What Does the IPO Mean for the Art-Fair Company? Want a possible sneak peek into Frieze's future? Endeavor's SEC filings and underlying business offer clues about what to expect next. By Tim Schneider, Sep 26, 2019
Market Is the Art Market Headed for Another Recession? 9 Tips From the Experts on How Galleries Can Survive the Fallout From general business fundamentals to specific art-market hacks, these strategies from veterans of the trade will help keep your doors open. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Sep 25, 2019
Market Who’s the Next Market Superstar? Here Are 5 Artists to Watch at This Week’s Contemporary Art Auctions in New York Our market experts select five artists positioned to become the talk of this month's contemporary-focused auctions in New York. By Nate Freeman & Tim Schneider, Sep 23, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Opaque Pricing in the Gallery Sector Makes Museum Collections Less Diverse (and Other Insights) Our columnist connects the dots between old-school thinking about price transparency and old-school thinking about what museums should buy. By Tim Schneider, Sep 23, 2019
Market Contemporary Art Stars Have Ruled the Photography Market at Auction—But Now Their Works Are Available at Steep Discounts Auction results for Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and others show there is no such thing as a single photography market at auction. By Tim Schneider, Sep 18, 2019
People ‘You Have to Create the Market’: Dealer Mariane Ibrahim on Moving to Chicago and Promoting Artists From Africa, Its Diaspora, and Beyond Mariane Ibrahim's new 5,000 square-foot space results from a much longer journey than her move from Seattle to Illinois. By Tim Schneider, Sep 17, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Thousands of Unsold New York Condos Should Worry High-Dollar Art Dealers (and Other Insights) Our columnist reveals why we're seeing eerily similar sales statistics for luxury condos and the priciest artworks at auction in 2019. By Tim Schneider, Sep 16, 2019
Art World Pace’s New Chelsea Flagship Is a Strange, Stunning Gamble on a New Direction for the Mega-Gallery. Can It Pay Off? From its use of space to its financial commitments, Pace's new headquarters breaks hard from expectations set by its competitors in 2019. By Tim Schneider, Sep 11, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Sterling Ruby’s Fashion Shows Won’t Save the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist on why Sterling Ruby's fashion business isn't as far away from the art business as he'd like to believe. By Tim Schneider, Sep 9, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Political Turmoil in the Three Largest Art Markets Proves That Governments Shape Culture (and Other Insights) Our columnist analyzes the commercial and artistic consequences of controversial recent policies in China, the US, and the UK. By Tim Schneider, Sep 2, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why New York’s Museum of Ice Cream Wins at Business by Betraying Its Name (and Other Insights) Our columnist digs into what makes the Museum of Ice Cream depressingly sustainable compared to legitimate art museums and galleries. By Tim Schneider, Aug 26, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Pace Gallery’s New Tech Initiative Could Worsen One Art-World Problem by Solving Another (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the likely limitations of PaceX, the mega-gallery's new initiative to expand the market for tech- and experience-based art. By Tim Schneider, Aug 19, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why This Chinese Fashion Designer Could Have a Solution for the Gallery Crisis (and Other Insights) Our columnist stress tests whether designer Guo Pei's unorthodox business model could apply to the troubled gallery sector. By Tim Schneider, Aug 5, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Late Withdrawal of Eight Artists From the Whitney Biennial Ushers in an ‘Asterisk Era’ for the Art World (and Other Insights) Our columnist considers what the recent withdrawal of eight artists from the Whitney Biennial has to do with baseball's biggest scandal. By Tim Schneider, Jul 22, 2019
