Opinion How Hans Haacke’s Rise Coincided With the End of 1960s Activism and the Birth of Corporate Museum Sponsorship The artist's New Museum retrospective traces the genesis of his particular brand of "institutional critique." By Ben Davis, Nov 6, 2019
Opinion A Masterful Charles White Painting Could Smash the Artist’s Auction Record, But Let’s Not Forget That He Was Devoted to Making Art for the Masses The painting could fetch $1.5 million when it sells at Christie's New York this month. By Eddie Chambers, Nov 4, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Twitter’s Ban of Political Ads Could Have an Important Impact on Instagram’s Censorship of Artwork (and Other Insights) Our columnist dissects how a major policy shift at Twitter puts Facebook on the hot seat for its political ads and Instagram art censorship. By Tim Schneider, Nov 3, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Ethical Vetting of Collectors Won’t Reshape the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist shines a light on the firewalls protecting private sales from the activist pressure now changing museum boardrooms. By Tim Schneider, Oct 27, 2019
Opinion In a World Rent Asunder by Protest, Kenny Schachter Goes Shopping for Art at FIAC—and Pays a Little Visit to That Jeff Koons Our columnist was not amused by the mega-artist's "gift" to Paris. By Kenny Schachter, Oct 22, 2019
Opinion What the New $450 Million MoMA Means for the Art Market of Tomorrow Our columnist unpacks how the revamped museum's new exhibition spaces and curatorial policies will impact the art trade. By Tim Schneider, Oct 20, 2019
Opinion MoMA’s Nimble New Incarnation Is Well Suited to a World in Constant Flux. If Only It Didn’t Choose Tourists Over Its Artists The museum's newly expanded home corrects some of the historical record, but it doesn't go quite far enough. Maybe it can't. By Ben Davis, Oct 17, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why the Trump Tax Cuts Are Killing the Art Market Despite Coddling the Richest American Families (and Other Insights) Our columnist connects an eye-popping new tax statistic about the 400 richest American families to a surprising downturn in the art trade. By Tim Schneider, Oct 13, 2019
Opinion Is Infantilism the Key to KAWS’s Unstoppable Rise? Kenny Schachter Peers Behind the Scenes at the London and Hong Kong Auctions Our columnist pulls back the curtain on the swarms of flippers fueling the art market. By Kenny Schachter, Oct 10, 2019
Opinion The Gray Market: Why Kickstarter May Be the Next Battleground for Ethical Arts Patronage (and Other Insights) Our columnist on how a unionization struggle is attracting the same calls for boycotts of Kickstarter as for museums with problematic patrons. By Tim Schneider, Oct 6, 2019
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 29, 2019
Opinion Artist Adrian Piper Responds to Our Special ‘Women’s Place in the Art World’ Report The artist says we overlooked one very important factor: ourselves. By Adrian Piper, Sep 25, 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 22, 2019
Opinion Our Exhibition on Nazi Design in the Netherlands Has Been Controversial. Here’s Why We Did It—and Why It’s More Urgent Now Than Ever Timo de Rijk, the director of the Design Museum Den Bosch, defends his institution's divisive exhibition. By Timo de Rijk, 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 15, 2019