The Back Room The Back Room: Bright Lights, Big Promises This week: new African art in the limelight, the Artist Pension Trust in shambles, Magritte in the record books, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jan 14, 2022
The Gray Market Why One Crypto Critic’s Thought Experiment May Actually Point the Way Forward for Digital Art (and Other Insights) Our columnist addresses whether avant-garde NFTs can be the exception to the rule that the internet's next phase will repeat past mistakes. By Tim Schneider, Jan 12, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Back to the Future This week, the case for Sotheby’s to go public again, Judy Chicago x Kanye West, and another 30-year-old talent goes stratospheric in Asia. By Tim Schneider, Jan 7, 2022
The Gray Market Artnet Oracle Tim Schneider Offers 10 Adventurous, Highly Specific Predictions for the Art World in 2022 (and Other Insights) Our columnist once again peers into the swirling mists of the new year to try to decipher what lies ahead of the art industry. By Tim Schneider, Jan 5, 2022
The Gray Market How Artnet Oracle Tim Schneider’s 10 Highly Specific Art-World Predictions for 2021 Worked Out (and Other Insights) Our columnist grades the predictions he made at the start of 2021 to see where he went right (and wrong). By Tim Schneider, Dec 29, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: A Year That Went Boom This week: art-market acceleration hits a new gear, Sotheby's outsells itself, European gavels get loud too, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Dec 17, 2021
The Gray Market How Prices for In-Demand Living Artists Rocketed to Hair-Raising New Heights in 2021 (and Other Insights) Our columnist unpacks why the last eight months of global demand have pushed the art market into new territory. By Tim Schneider, Dec 15, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Freaking Out or Winding Down? This week: an art-market Omicron primer, downtown New York dealers on the move, a coveted Magritte appears under Bonhams’s hammer, and more. By Tim Schneider, Dec 10, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Art Market Is Unlikely to Be Affected by the Omicron Variant (and Other Insights) Our columnist surfaces from a research binge with insights into how the art market may respond to the latest pandemic twist. By Tim Schneider, Dec 8, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: We Shall Buy on the Beaches, We Shall Buy in the Booths This week in the Back Room: Miami Art Week splashes out again, a surprise power-up for a septuagenarian artist, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Dec 3, 2021
The Gray Market Art and NFTs Are Wooing Each Other in Miami. But Whether the Romance Lasts Is Far From a Given (and Other Insights) Our columnist surveys the art world's relationship to crypto since its previous peak in 2018, and reminds us linear progress is not promised. By Tim Schneider, Dec 1, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: A Taste for the Finer Things This week: everybody wins in auction week's sequel, the results of Art Basel’s solidarity fund, Giacometti meets the metaverse, and more. By Tim Schneider, Nov 19, 2021
The Gray Market Why NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of How Auction Houses Are Blurring the Line Between the Primary and Secondary Markets Our columnist examines The Big Three auction houses forays into crypto-art sales, and why it's less revolutionary than it may seem. By Tim Schneider, Nov 17, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Auction Action Returns to New York This week: a marquee auction overview, a big year of bounce-back on the block, another eight-figure Beeple, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Nov 12, 2021
The Gray Market Why Shocks to the Labor Market and Global Supply Chain Mean the Arts Are Paying More to Get Less (and Other Insights) Our columnist introduces art pros to "skimpflation" and all the ways it is forcing them to spend more for worse results. By Tim Schneider, Nov 10, 2021