Looking to Buy a Masterpiece? You Might Want to Be Extra Careful With These 20 Forger-Friendly Bodies of Work by Famous Artists

Op-Ed

Looking to Buy a Masterpiece? You Might Want to Be Extra Careful With These 20 Forger-Friendly Bodies of Work by Famous Artists

From overstuffed Cornell boxes to unusually colorful Joan Mitchells, here are the danger zones in your favorite artists' oeuvres.

By Richard Polsky, Nov 23, 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 22, 2020

Opinion

Why the Art World Shouldn’t Be Congratulating Itself on Donald Trump’s Defeat

Did the last four years of politicized culture break art's bubble or strengthen it?

By Ben Davis, Nov 16, 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 15, 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 8, 2020

Opinion

How Can I Tell If My Warhol Is Fake? Here Are Five Tell-Tale Clues, According to an Expert

Warhol expert Richard Polsky breaks down what you need to know about warning signs in the artist's many bodies of work.

By Richard Polsky, Nov 4, 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 1, 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 25, 2020

Op-Ed

Public Schools Are in Crisis. Museums Can Help Fill the Gap—But Only If They Survive

The president of the American Alliance of Museums makes the case for boosting museum funding as homeschooling drags on.

By Laura Lott, Oct 20, 2020

Opinion

The Gray Market: Why ‘Sticky’ High Rents Are Gumming Up the New York Art World in Its Time of Need (and Other Insights)

Our columnist breaks down how Uncle Sam and Wall Street are holding back the arts by holding up commercial rents in a historic downturn.

By Tim Schneider, Oct 18, 2020

Op-Ed

We Transformed Our Museum Into a Polling Place. Here’s Why We Did It—and How It Will Shape What We Do in the Future

The director of the San José Institute of Contemporary Art explains how she and her team overhauled their program in just a few months.

By Alison Gass, Oct 15, 2020

Opinion

The Strongest Reactions to the Philip Guston Show’s Postponement Miss Two Key Points. Here’s What They Are—and Why They Matter

Our critic considers two ways of thinking about the controversial Philip Guston postponement that might make you rethink your gut reaction.

By Ben Davis, Oct 15, 2020

Opinion

Kenny Schachter Is Back, Baby! And He’s So OVR It. (But Has Plenty to Say About the Ron Perelman Selloff)

Our columnist rides again, with some choice thoughts on the uncanny new reality of New York's fall art season.

By Kenny Schachter, Oct 14, 2020

Opinion

The Gray Market: What the Rampaging Success of a T-Rex Skeleton Says About Major Imbalances in the Auction Market (and Other Insights)

Our columnist puts some analytical meat on the $31.8 million bones of "Stan," which sold at Christie's 20th-century art evening sale.

By Tim Schneider, Oct 11, 2020

Opinion

The Gray Market: Why Trump’s Effect on the Arts Economy Will Live in Infamy, Regardless of What Happens Next (and Other Insights)

Our columnist mines the data to show how the Trump presidency has affected artists, arts workers, and other vulnerable citizens.

By Tim Schneider, Oct 4, 2020