Market What a Steal! For Less Than $250, You Can Get a Set of Limited-Edition Artworks by the Likes of Jenny Holzer and Martin Creed Mailed to Your Door The portfolio, a nod to a cultish mail art project from the late 1960s, is available for pre-sale now. By Artnet News, 3 mins ago
Auctions In the Latest NFT Auction Frenzy, an Artist Just Sold a Collection of Digital Furniture for $450,000—See Images of the Otherworldly Designs Here The auction sold out in less than 10 minutes. By Caroline Goldstein, 21 hours ago
Auctions Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000 The price was 300 in Ethereum. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Auctions Paintings of King Charles Spaniels and Other Treasures From the Estate of John McCain’s Late Mother Sold for Nearly $100,000 at Auction Roberta McCain, who died at age 108 last year, was an avid collector of objects both expensive and cheap. By Taylor Dafoe, 2 days ago
Market How Artist Yoshitomo Nara’s Return to Japan After 12 Years Abroad Reshaped His Style—and Supercharged His Soaring Market The artist's famously sassy cartoon characters command millions of dollars. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Auctions A $9.8 Million Auction of Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Their Artist Friends More Than Doubled Its Estimate at Sotheby’s Paris The auction offered an eclectic mix of work by the artists and those in their inner circle. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 18, 2021
Market A Banksy Mega-Collector Just Bought the Mural of a Girl With a Hula Hoop That Appeared in Nottingham Last Year The work is headed for an exhibition at Moyse's Hall Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 17, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Hopes to Open a New Frontier of the Art Market With the First-Ever Major Auction of a Wholly Digital Blockchain Artwork The starting price for the work is just $100. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 16, 2021
Market Amid Uncertainty About the Future of Art Fairs, Frieze Will Rent Out Space for Year-Round Pop-Up Shows in London The Cork Street galleries are the latest response to a trending demand for flexible exhibition spaces. By Naomi Rea, Feb 15, 2021
Market As Dealers Look to Reinvent Their Businesses, German Gallerist Johann König Is Hiring an Auctions Expert to Steer His In-House Fair Model "It is not possible for a gallery to simply grow by only having their 20 or so artists anymore." By Kate Brown, Feb 12, 2021
Galleries Rap Phenom Westside Gunn Is Opening a Hybrid Art Gallery-Swag Shop-Toy Store in His Hometown of Buffalo Gunn’s label is known for commissioning paintings by the likes of Virgil Abloh for its album covers. By Artnet News, Feb 12, 2021
Market A Little-Known Lawyer Just Made a Splash by Purchasing Kanye West’s Childhood Art After Seeing It on Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow experts valued the cache at upwards of $20,000. By Brian Boucher, Feb 12, 2021
Auctions A 1982 Basquiat Is Expected to Fetch Over $30 Million at Christie’s Hong Kong, Setting a Record for a Western Artist in Asia The sale shows confidence in the appetite for Western art in Asia. By Naomi Rea, Feb 11, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Has Closed Off Public Access to Its 255-Year-Old Auction Archive, a Major Resource for Scholars, Citing Budget Concerns The library is considered to be the most comprehensive auction archive in the world. By Artnet News, Feb 11, 2021
Galleries Damien Hirst Is Taking Over One of Gagosian’s London Galleries as Curator for an Entire Year The artist will organize shows of his own work and that of other artists. By Nan Stewert, Feb 11, 2021
