Market Signaling Growing Market Ambitions, Sotheby’s Is Moving Its Australian Aboriginal Art Sale to New York This Fall The sale had for many years been in London. By Kate Brown, 10 hours ago
Art Fairs The Indigenous Sounds of the Swiss Countryside Will Reverberate Through Art Basel in an Eco-Conscious Art Installation A one-night performance will accompany the installation. By Katie White, 1 day ago
Auctions Who Were the Breakout Stars of New York’s Spring Art Auctions? We Crunched the Numbers to Find Out Data shows which new entrants to Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips contemporary sales sparked the fiercest bidding in New York. By Tim Schneider, 1 day ago
Art Fairs The 2020 Armory Show Will Dedicate One Pier Entirely to Special Curated Sections for the First Time As Pier 92 awaits repairs, the fair will once again take place on Piers 90 and 94. By Sarah Cascone, 2 days ago
Art Fairs To Attract a Younger Audience, This New Brooklyn Art Fair Is Offering Exhibitors Booths for Just $700 Each "This is about finding a way to make an art fair that is more in touch with the artist community and the creators." By Sarah Cascone, 2 days ago
Auctions A Laptop Infected With Six of the World’s Most Dangerous Computer Viruses Is Up for Auction. The Bid Is Now More Than $1.2 Million The malware was installed by an artist on a Samsung notebook from 2008. By Taylor Dafoe, 2 days ago
Analysis A Buyer’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial: What You Need to Know About the Exhibition’s Brightest Rising Stars We highlight nine artists in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, including the oldest and the youngest in the show. By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, 3 days ago
Market Hauser & Wirth Hoovers Up Yet Another Superstar Artist, Poaching John Chamberlain’s Estate From Gagosian After a bruising auction season, the artist's family calls the move the start of a "new chapter." By Eileen Kinsella, May 21, 2019
Auctions Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 15 Key Takeaways From New York’s Eyebrow-Singeing $2 Billion Spring Art Sales From the most expensive work to the biggest flop, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Tim Schneider & Eileen Kinsella, May 20, 2019
Auctions Francis Bacon’s Screaming Pope and a String of Artist Records Deliver Sotheby’s a Robust $342 Million Contemporary Sale Francis Bacon's "Study for a Head" and Mark Rothko's "Untitled" each netted $50 million, while new marks were set for Lee Krasner and others. By Tim Schneider, May 17, 2019
Auctions De Kooning and KAWS Lend Multi-Generational Firepower to Phillips’s Solid $100 Million Modern and Contemporary Sale The street artist KAWS fared especially well, as two paintings by the neo-Pop artist soared past their estimates. By Brian Boucher, May 16, 2019
Market What Does the $89 Million Sale of a Prime Robert Rauschenberg at Christie’s Mean for the Artist’s Long-Quiet Market? For decades, Robert Rauschenberg's market lagged behind that of his peers. By Eileen Kinsella, May 16, 2019
Auctions Jeff Koons’s Bunny Sets a New Record for a Living Artist in Christie’s Half-Billion-Dollar Postwar and Contemporary Art Sale Koons's 'Rabbit' was part of a blue-chip collection of work belonging to the late publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2019
Auctions A Record-Shattering $111 Million Monet Powers an Otherwise Staid $350 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale at Sotheby’s Overall, the sale provided more solidity than stimulation. By Tim Schneider, May 14, 2019
Auctions This Roy Lichtenstein Mural Once Decorated the Bathroom of a Famed Playboy. Now It Could Be Yours for $1.2 Million The bespoke work was one of many to populate Gunter Sachs’s famous, Swiss, pop-art-filled apartment. By Taylor Dafoe, May 14, 2019
