Auctions Christie’s Posts a $2.2-Billion Drop in Sales in 2023 But 2022, the house's best year ever, was a hard act to follow. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 18, 2023
Auctions Nike Sneakers Produced for Spike Lee, Found in a Donation Bin, Fetch More Than $50,000 at Auction The shoes were anonymously donated to Portland Rescue Mission earlier this year. By Verity Babbs, Dec 18, 2023
Wet Paint An Artist Sues a Beloved L.A. Art Supply Store Into Oblivion, The Year’s Most Photographed Artists, and More Juicy Art World Gossip Plus, who was spotted at Gladstone's annual holiday party? What textile artist is catching institutional attention? By Annie Armstrong, Dec 15, 2023
Market The View From: Yuki Terase Rising interest rates and "revenge tourism" have slowed down art buying in Asia—and this is actually quite healthy. By Yuki Terase, Dec 14, 2023
Auctions A Painting Found in a U.K. Thrift Shop Turns Out to Be a Henry Scott Tuke Work Worth Over $31,000 The painting was left at an Oxfam thrift store by an unnamed donor. By Adam Schrader, Dec 14, 2023
Art Fairs Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and For How Much—at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 Here's what dealers say they sold at the 2023 edition of the fair. By Artnet News, Dec 13, 2023
Galleries Israel’s Incinerated Be’eri Gallery Receives Funding From Germany to Rebuild The €7 million gift from the German government is earmarked to reconstruct public buildings in Kibbutz Be’eri. By Karen Chernick, Dec 13, 2023
Auctions A Carlo Scarpa Vase Found in a Thrift Store Just Made More Than $100,000 at Auction The seller found it on a high shelf in a Goodwill in Richmond, Virginia. By Brian Boucher, Dec 13, 2023
Analysis State of the Art Market: Surrealist Women Awakening An analysis of the auction market’s resurgent interest in Surrealist artists. By Artnet News and Morgan Stanley, Dec 13, 2023
Auctions A Newly Attributed Rembrandt Once Valued at $10,000 Sold for Almost $14 Million The painting vanished from public view in the 1950s, only to resurface in 2021 on the auction block. By Adam Schrader, Dec 13, 2023
Auctions German Auction House Ketterer Kunst’s Weekend Art Sales Achieved a Handsome Hammer Total of $43 Million But the lukewarm sell-through rates across all five sales indicated that the market is volatile. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 12, 2023
The Back Room Paint Drippings: Everything You Missed in the Art Industry Last Week Get caught up on the latest market moves, fast. By Artnet News, Dec 11, 2023
Auctions An ‘Asterix’ Cover Painting Fails to Sell at Auction After the Artist’s Daughter Claims It Was Stolen The auction house’s director general says buyers may have been scared off by the legal complaint. By Brian Boucher, Dec 11, 2023
Auctions The U.K.’s Oldest Known Scientific Instrument, Dubbed an ‘Early Computer,’ Heads to Auction The Medieval device was designed to tell time by tracking the position of the sun. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 11, 2023
Art Fairs TikTok Star Vita Kari’s Performance Piece at Art Basel Miami Beach Drew Crowds and Cops The performance invited viewers to pour water on the artist as they sat inside a plexiglass container. By Adam Schrader, Dec 11, 2023
