Analysis At Hong Kong’s Latest Round of Auctions, Work by Western Artists Reached a New High Sales topped $260 million during the October auction week, with western artists tripling their previous total. By Tim Schneider, Oct 18, 2018
Analysis Here Are 8 Major Questions Still Unanswered About Banksy’s Sotheby’s Prank What really happened, and who knew ahead of time? By Ben Davis & Eileen Kinsella, Oct 12, 2018
Analysis Is This the Victory Lap We Were Hoping For? Why We Must Keep Women and Artists of Color From Becoming the Next Victims of Market Speculation Artists like Avery Singer and Njideka Akunyili Crosby are deserving of rising prices, but should they be at auction? By Lisa Schiff, Oct 12, 2018
Analysis Wondering How Instagram’s New Tap-to-Buy Features Might Work for Selling Art? Here Are the Answers Instagram's new Shopping features now allow users to buy artwork from approved sellers with a few taps. But will it work for the art world? By Tim Schneider, Oct 10, 2018
Analysis With His Viral Shredding Performance, Did Banksy Just Change the Market for Performance Art Forever? Banksy's move actually has a lot to say about how the market—and the public's relationship to it—has changed in recent years. By Elizabeth Dee, Oct 9, 2018
Analysis Art Basel Cities Is the Global Fair Company’s Portal to the Future. But What the Heck Is It, Anyway? A pricey experiment by an international art-fair organizer descends on a country in crisis. Guess what? This is an upbeat story. By Andrew Goldstein, Sep 17, 2018
Analysis A Decade After Damien Hirst’s Historic ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ Auction, Resale Prices Are Looking Ugly The single-artist sale brought Hirst $201 million, but a number of those works have since lost millions for their original buyers. By Tim Schneider, Sep 12, 2018
Analysis Who Says Culture Doesn’t Pay? $9.9 Billion Was Spent on New Arts Projects Around the Globe in 2017 The Louvre Abu Dhabi was, unsurprisingly, the priciest building completed last year. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 11, 2018
Analysis Part Capitalist, Part Socialist, Estonia May Have Cracked the Code for a Thriving Art Scene. Here’s How They Did It Estonia has built something of a cultural utopia, complete with government-subsidized art-fair participation and a national artists' union. By Kate Brown, Jul 24, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Art Gallery Attendance Is the Wrong Metric to Measure (and Other Insights) Our columnist on lessons from the Chelsea Art Walk, a subsidized House for Artists, and the complications of New York's Culture Pass. By Tim Schneider, Jul 23, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Could Auction Houses Really Help Save Struggling Galleries? (and Other Insights) Our columnist follows the bread crumbs left by the rumor that Art Agency, Partners will offer gallery advisory services for a hefty fee. By Tim Schneider, Jul 16, 2018
Analysis Is Everything We Know About Gallery E-Commerce Wrong? How David Zwirner and Gagosian’s New Initiatives Break the Rules With their new online viewing rooms, the mega-galleries are challenging ideas about what can (and can't) sell online in a changing art market. By Tim Schneider, Jul 9, 2018
Analysis Women and Millennials Are the Fastest-Growing Forces in Art Collecting, a New Study Finds Nearly one third of wealthy women own art or are interested in buying it. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 26, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Art Basel Is Both a Gift and a Curse (and Other Insights) Our columnist returns from Art Basel with thoughts on the fair's Swiss exceptionalism and its meaning in the art world of 2018. By Tim Schneider, Jun 18, 2018
Analysis How Dealers Are (Slowly) Rebooting Their Businesses to Take Software-Based Art Mainstream At Art Basel 2018, there are signs the art market is finding a language to contextualize technology. By Tim Schneider, Jun 14, 2018