Analysis Betting on Asian Collectors’ Appetite for Western Art, Sotheby’s Organizes a $200 Million Selling Exhibition in Hong Kong Four Picassos in the sale have come directly from the artist's granddaughter. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 21, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Art Censorship Is Built Into Facebook’s DNA (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains how conservatism powers Facebook's business plan, and addresses disappearing sculptures and fake Basquiats. By Tim Schneider, Mar 5, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Sotheby’s Acquisition of an AI Startup Won’t Disrupt the Industry (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains why app Thread Genius will matter most to novice buyers and touches on LACMA's latest expansion and AWOL bidders. By Tim Schneider, Jan 29, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: A Simple Trick to Tell If a Museum Scandal Is Really Worth Caring About (and Other Insights) Our columnist suggests a handy ‘acid test’ for museum scandals, and weighs in on the TEFAF report's demise and Google Arts & Culture. By Tim Schneider, Jan 22, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: The Unknown Cost of Keeping Art in Museum Storage (and Other Insights) Our columnist asks why it's a museum taboo to talk about the value of art kept in reserve, and questions how we measure mega exhibitions. By Tim Schneider, Jan 15, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why the Met’s Ticket Prices Are Not the Problem (and Other Insights) Our columnist delves into the Met's controversial new admission policy—and explains why a lasting solution won't come from the box office. By Tim Schneider, Jan 8, 2018
Analysis Eight Hair-Raising and Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Market in 2018 What will the coming year hold for art fairs, galleries, and the art business in general? Tim Schneider ventures a few prognostications. By Tim Schneider, Jan 5, 2018
Analysis From Studio to Factory: Is Overproduction the Greatest Threat to the Market for Contemporary Art? In an excerpt from her new book, Dark Side of the Boom, Georgina Adam visits some of the world's most productive artists. By Georgina Adam, Jan 2, 2018
Analysis The 4 Glass Ceilings: How Women Artists Get Stiffed at Every Stage of Their Careers Several new studies examine precisely how much worse women fare in the art market than their male peers. It's not a pretty picture. By Julia Halperin, Dec 15, 2017
Analysis The Gray Market: What the ‘Salvator Mundi’ Whodunnit Says About Saudi Soft Power (and Other Insights) How a $450 million da Vinci and a handful of petrocrats siphoned much of the art-market oxygen out of Art Basel in Miami Beach. By Tim Schneider, Dec 11, 2017
Analysis The Rediscovery Backlash: Has the Market for Overlooked Art Historical Talent Peaked? This year's Art Basel Miami Beach is full of work from the '60s and '70s. But how much of it is actually worth rediscovering? By Julia Halperin, Dec 8, 2017
Analysis Passion, Not Profit, Is the Biggest Motivator for Collectors, a New Study Says The surprising results from a new study by Swiss bank UBS suggest that profit is rarely a driving factor. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 7, 2017
Analysis A New Study Shows That Most Artists Make Very Little Money, With Women Faring the Worst The myth of the starving artist is anything but a myth. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 29, 2017
Analysis Why Would Anyone Pay $450 Million for the ‘Salvator Mundi’? Because They’re Not Buying the Painting An attempt to psychoanalyze the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi.' By Tim Schneider, Nov 17, 2017
Analysis A New Report on Global Billionaires Confirms the Growing Art-Buying Power of Asia’s New Mega-Rich The art market follows the money as the number of China's mega-rich increased by 25 percent to overtake US for the first time. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 26, 2017
