Opinion The Gray Market: 10 Daring and Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2021 (and Other Insights) Fresh off a chaotic 2020, our columnist boldly attempts to chart the ever-turning art world’s orbit in the new year. By Tim Schneider, Jan 4, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How My 7 Highly Specific Art-Industry Predictions for 2020 Worked Out (and Other Insights) Upholding an annual tradition, our columnist tests the sturdiness of his tea leaves at the end of a year like no other. By Tim Schneider, Dec 28, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why a Colossal Hack of US Interests Should Wake Up the Art Industry to Cybersecurity Threats (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees the breach of SolarWinds as a red alert about the heightened danger of cybercrime in the work-from-home era. By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 2020
People What I Buy and Why: Former IBM Executive Marilyn Johnson on the Advantage of Hanging Art in the Laundry Room Top collectors share their strategies (and obsessions). By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Bob Dylan’s $300 Million Windfall Debunks the Myth of the Sellout Artist (and Other Insights) Our columnist uses the sale of Dylan’s songwriting catalog to show artists have little to fear from aggressively monetizing their practice. By Tim Schneider, Dec 14, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Art Market Shouldn’t Worry That the Film Industry Is Undergoing a Home-Viewing Revolution (and Other Insights) Our columnist unspools the art-world implications of Warner Bros.’s choice to stream its 2021 films on HBO Max as soon as they hit theaters. By Tim Schneider, Dec 7, 2020
Auctions Bidders at the Big Three Auction Houses Are Overwhelmingly Male. Why? Women May Have a Different Sense of Art’s Value Interviews with those in the trade suggest that women collectors are more interested in creating value than buying trophies. By Julia Halperin & Tim Schneider, Dec 2, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Corporate Collections Are Thriving While Museums Starve (and Other Insights) Our columnist digs into history to unearth the reasons major banks are filling the cultural void left by struggling institutions. By Tim Schneider, Nov 23, 2020
Analysis Virtual Art Fairs Were Seen as a Lifeline in the Lockdown Era. A New Study Shows They Are Failing New York’s Art Market Collectors say they are absolutely exhausted with the "onslaught of art" being sold online. By Tim Schneider, Nov 18, 2020
Art World The Cleveland Cavaliers Have Hired Artist Daniel Arsham to Be Its Creative Director as Alliances Between the Sports and Art Worlds Proliferate The genre-bending artist will chart the visual identity of the entire Cavaliers organization, from jerseys to arena imagery to merchandise. By Tim Schneider, Nov 17, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Seniors May Become the World’s Most Powerful Art-Collecting Population This Winter (and Other Insights) Our columnist thinks through the art-market inefficiencies that could be created by older collectors receiving priority inoculation. By Tim Schneider, Nov 16, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why California Voters Just Dealt an Election-Day Loss to the Entire Art World (and Other Insights) Our columnist details the dark future for artists and arts workers presaged by the passage of California’s Proposition 22. By Tim Schneider, Nov 9, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: What Galleries Can Learn From SaveLive, an Investor-Backed Network of Indie Music Venues (and Other Insights) Our columnist grapples with whether SaveLive could be a model to help small galleries weather the winner-takes-all art economy of the 2020s. By Tim Schneider, Nov 2, 2020
Galleries Subscriptions Work for Wine and Razors… So Why Not Artworks? Here’s How One Gallery Is Rethinking Art Sales to Make It Through Lockdown In our latest spotlight on new business models for galleries, Kate Werble shows why commissioning unique work isn't just for blue-chippers. By Tim Schneider, Oct 29, 2020
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Scarily Low Museum Attendance This Fall Points to an Old Problem in Art Institutions (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees paltry attendance at reopened European museums as a long-simmering result of their dependence on older audiences. By Tim Schneider, Oct 26, 2020
