Auctions Sotheby’s Will Reimagine the Auction Experience by Livestreaming Its Big-Money June Art Sales—Without an Audience The sale is scheduled for June 29. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Galleries Museums and Art Galleries in Seoul Shut Down Again as the City Sees a Second Wave of Coronavirus Cases South Korea had previously been praised for its exemplary response to the crisis. By Eileen Kinsella, May 28, 2020
Galleries Hong Kong Galleries Are Banding Together to Launch a Mini Art Fair to Help Revive the City’s Struggling Art Market The June debut of "Unscheduled" will feature 13 galleries primarily from Hong Kong. By Eileen Kinsella, May 24, 2020
Art Fairs In the Latest Blow to Singapore’s Fledgling Art Market, the Inaugural Art SG Fair Has Been Delayed for a Second Time Organizers now hope to open the event in November 2021. By Sarah Cascone, May 22, 2020
Auctions The Collection of Cable-Television Impresario Ginny Williams, Full of Top-Notch Works by Women, Could Fetch $50 Million at Sotheby’s The collection will be sold across a series of sales throughout 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, May 22, 2020
Analysis Online Viewing Rooms Are Creating a Goldmine of User Data on Art Collectors. Here’s How Galleries Are Using It—and How They Could in the Future Dealers and fairs are beginning to take advantage of information that has long been accessible to other online retailers. By Tim Schneider, May 21, 2020
Galleries Just How Bad Has the Financial Fallout Been for US Galleries? A New Survey Crunches the Numbers—and They’re Bleak Full-time unemployment hasn't dipped too dramatically, but galleries are bracing for dramatic losses this quarter. By Eileen Kinsella, May 19, 2020
Market Antiques Traders Angry at the UK’s Ivory Ban, One of the World’s Toughest, Have Lost Their Fight to Overturn It in Court Dealers argue that the ban’s strict prohibitions will decimate the UK’s antiques market. By Naomi Rea, May 19, 2020
Art Fairs Untitled Is Bringing the First-Ever Art Fair to Take Place in Virtual Reality to Your Screen This Summer The fair sped up the development of the technology amid the current shutdown By Eileen Kinsella, May 18, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Online Contemporary Sale Fetches $13.7 Million—More Than Doubling the Previous Record for a Virtual Art Sale, Set Three Weeks Ago But the statistics don't account for the high number of withdrawn works. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2020
Galleries A London Gallery Is Trying Out a New Pitch on Collectors: Live With an Artwork for Six Weeks and Then Tell Us If You Want to Buy It The gallery's owner says the idea came to him before the global shutdown got underway. By Caroline Goldstein, May 15, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Will Replace Its Marquee June Sales in New York With a Streaming ‘Relay’ Auction to Unfold Across Four Cities Worldwide The sale kicks off at 8 p.m. local time in Hong Kong on July 10. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2020
Art Fairs NADA Is Launching a Communal New Online Art Fair for 200 Dealers Who Will Equally Share 20 Percent of All Sales Galleries will also pay 10 percent of their sales proceeds to NADA for organizing the event. By Taylor Dafoe, May 14, 2020
Market An Art Gallery Is Literally Handing Out Free Marijuana With Any Purchase of an Artwork by This Adorable Dog—and It’s Completely Legal The gallery's owners have figured out a way around the restrictive drug laws in Washington, DC. By Sarah Cascone, May 13, 2020
Art Fairs Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the Frieze Art Fair’s Inaugural Online Viewing Room Here's what dealers say they sold at the inaugural online fair (though watch out for number-fudging and other kinds of general sneakiness). By Artnet News, May 13, 2020
