Law The New York Art World Had High Hopes for Black Wall Street Gallery. Allegations Against Its Founder Have Soured Those Dreams Artists accuse owner Ricco Wright of failing to pay them nearly $100,000 for the sales of their work. By Zachary Small, Mar 16, 2023
Innovators List The Innovators: Curator Tina Rivers Ryan on Getting Over Her NFT Skepticism and What’s Next for Blockchain Art "NFTs have not fully solved problems in the art world, though they can represent a step in the right direction," Ryan says. By Zachary Small, Dec 22, 2022
Innovators List The Innovators: Art Blocks CEO Erick Calderon on Crypto Speculation, the Bear Market, and Building His Kids’ Future on the Blockchain "Founders who make even small mistakes can lose everything," Calderon says. By Zachary Small, Dec 19, 2022
The Burns Halperin Report These Two Museums Sold Art by White Men to Buy Work by Women and Artists of Color. Did It Actually Tip the Scales? We look at two case studies of institutions that deaccessioned in order to diversify. It's effective—up to a point. By Zachary Small, Dec 15, 2022
NFTs ‘I Could Go Full Throttle for Decades’: How Generative Art Sensation Tyler Hobbs Is Defying a Shrinking NFT Market The digital artist was a breakout talent amid NFT mania and will test his luck next year in the traditional art market with an exhibition at Pace Gallery. By Zachary Small, Dec 7, 2022
Science & Tech A.I. Is Exploding the Illustration World. Here’s How Artists Are Racing to Catch Up New tools and new kinds of advocacy are popping up as A.I. art generators upend online creativity. By Zachary Small, Oct 24, 2022
Museums 13 U.S. Museum Shows to See This Fall, From Tragic Genius Matthew Wong’s First Retrospective to a Landmark Joan Didion Exhibition These shows are all taking place outside of New York. By Zachary Small, Oct 5, 2022
People Jameson Green Won’t Apologize for His Confrontational Paintings. Collectors Love Him for It Prices for his paintings have quadrupled over the past two years as buyers search for art that will challenge them. By Zachary Small, Oct 3, 2022
Law Homage or Copy? Deborah Roberts Is Suing a Fellow Artist for Allegedly Stealing Her Photocollage Style The legal clash revisits old disputes about whether artists with similar styles should be allowed to compete in the same market. By Zachary Small, Sep 28, 2022
Art Fairs Inside the Affordable Art Fair, Where Artists Pose as Dealers and Paintings Fly Off the Walls Marking its 20th anniversary, the expo provides a window into the little-discussed and low-cost backbone of the art market. By Zachary Small, Sep 27, 2022
Art World Performers Were Among the Artists Hit Hardest by the Pandemic. Three Years in, Recovery Is Moving at a Snail’s Pace Opportunities that dried up in early 2020 have yet to come back. By Zachary Small, Aug 15, 2022
Museums Once-Promising Attendance Figures at U.S. Museums Have Plateaued, Revealing the Pandemic’s Enduring Grip on the Cultural Economy Regional museums relying on local residents seem to have fared better than their larger counterparts. By Zachary Small, Jul 7, 2022
People When He Turned 50, Jason Boyd Kinsella Left an Advertising Career to Pursue Art. Two Years Later, His Paintings Are Selling for Almost $500,000 The artist cultivated the curiosity of gallerists on Instagram before turning his practice into a multinational business. By Zachary Small, Jun 23, 2022
Politics How Artists Are Memorializing Victims of Mass Shootings, Again and Again and Again and Again In a grim indicator, local governments have created official processes for building monuments, sensing that more will come. By Zachary Small, Jun 3, 2022
Art World Designer and Art Collector Lisa Perry Is Reviving a Pedigreed Modernist House as a Gallery in the Hamptons Onna House will showcase the work of women artists and designers. By Zachary Small, Apr 7, 2022
