Market Why the Pandemic Will Actually Strengthen the Art Experience Economy—and the Old-Fashioned Gallery Business, Too The post-thing economy—starting with Superblue—could save the art market from obsolescence. By Tim Schneider, 12 hours ago
Auctions Christie’s Will Offer 9 Multimillion-Dollar NFT CryptoPunks in Its May Evening Auction. Here’s What That Means The digital collectibles include a rare alien punk. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
Art Fairs Citing ‘Ongoing Uncertainty,’ Frieze Cancels Its 2021 Los Angeles Fair and Plans to Move Across Town in 2022 The 2022 fair will move from Paramount Studies to a tent on Wilshire Boulevard. By Artnet News, Apr 9, 2021
Market France Has Made Lockdown Exceptions for Auction Houses and Chocolate Shops. Now, a Gallery Association Is Suing for Being Excluded Dealers say letting auction houses, but not galleries, remain open gives them an unfair competitive advantage. By Naomi Rea, Apr 9, 2021
Art Fairs Art Basel Hong Kong’s 2021 Fair Will Be Less Than Half the Size of Its Previous In-Person Edition, and Filled With ‘Ghost Booths’ Only around 30 dealers from outside the region will participate in this year's event. By Pac Pobric, Apr 8, 2021
Auctions Following Public Pressure, eBay Has Cancelled a Sale of Wartime Drawings Reportedly Made by an Artist in a U.S. Japanese Internment Camp A number of organizations wrote to the auction house saying they objected to "profiteering off the oppression of Japanese Americans." By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 7, 2021
Auctions A Picasso Portrait Could Rake in $55 Million at Christie’s Next Month, Suggesting a Surge in the Art Market’s Confidence The work, depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter, was painted in 1932, Picasso's so-called "year of wonders." By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 6, 2021
Galleries Some of the World’s Top Artists Are Trying Their Hand at NFTs. The World’s Top Galleries Are a Bit More Skeptical Here's why artists are the ones leading the charge. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 6, 2021
Market Rise of the Cyborg Art Dealers: How the Art Market Is Preparing to Adapt to a Hybrid Online-IRL Future After 2020, here's what has changed, what will stay the same, and what's left to innovate in all corners of the art market. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2021
Galleries Salon 94 Has Opened a Strikingly Beautiful New Headquarters in an Upper East Side Mansion—See Photos of the Historic Space Here The gallery is opening with two shows, from Niki de Saint Phalle and Derrick Adams. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2021
Art Fairs Art Dubai, the First Major In-Person Art Fair Since the Pandemic, Proves That Collectors Are Ready to Show Up and Spend The successful fair comes at a moment of great change for the United Arab Emirates. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Apr 2, 2021
Auctions Phillips Is Entering the Digital Fray With the Sale of a Mad Dog Jones NFT That Will Generate New NFTs Every Month The artist calls the work the first “multi-generational NFT.” By Sarah Cascone, Apr 2, 2021
Market The Crypto Investor Who Underbid the $69 Million Beeple NFT Has Moved on to Buying His Second Choice: Picasso Justin Sun wants to create a blockchain registry for NFTs of the world's priciest works of art. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 1, 2021
Market An Art Historian Just Minted an NFT of Salvator Mundi Holding a Fistful of Bills—and He’s Hoping to Sell It for $450 Million Author Ben Lewis will share the proceeds with the Louisiana family who sold the original Leonardo work for just $1,175. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 1, 2021
Market How London’s Art Industry Is Reimagining Mayfair in an Effort to Keep the Tony Neighborhood a Hotbed for Contemporary Art Frieze is leading the way by opening 6,400-square-foot galleries that international dealers can rent for temporary exhibitions. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Mar 31, 2021
