Analysis A Data-Driven Look at This Week’s Day Sales Offers More Proof That the Auction Market Is Only Growing at the Top Evening-sale estimates have exploded, while their day-sale counterparts have stagnated. By Tim Schneider, Nov 11, 2018
Analysis Has Artificial Intelligence Brought Us the Next Great Art Movement? Here Are 9 Pioneering Artists Who Are Exploring AI’s Creative Potential There's a lot going on in the world of art and AI. By Naomi Rea, Nov 5, 2018
Analysis ‘After a Long Sleep, It Woke Up’: What Is Driving the Market Frenzy Around Late German Artist Günther Förg The German artist's prices are peaking. By Henri Neuendorf, Oct 31, 2018
Analysis ‘The Price of Everything’ Has a Vision of the Art Market to Sell You. Don’t Buy It Nathaniel Kahn's new film buries interesting truths about the contemporary art market in layers of empty calories. By Tim Schneider, Oct 31, 2018
Analysis Who Survived the Zombie Formalism Apocalypse? We Surveyed the Wreckage of the Last Great Art-Market Fad Five years ago, the market experienced unprecedented speculation on young artists. Which ones got out of the bubble alive? By Tim Schneider, Oct 30, 2018
Analysis How Do You Build a Sustainable Art Career? We Examine Case Studies of Two Star Artists Here's how artists of two generations—Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Cecily Brown—have developed sustainable careers amid intense pressure. By Charlotte Burns, Oct 23, 2018
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 9, 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 8, 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 23, 2018