Revealed: The Top Consignors to This Week’s London Auctions, Including a Whitney Trustee and Tech CEO

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Revealed: The Top Consignors to This Week’s London Auctions, Including a Whitney Trustee and Tech CEO

Here's who's selling what.

By Katya Kazakina, Oct 13, 2022

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Unfairly Imprisoned, He Labored on a Chain Gang for Years. Now Winfred Rembert’s Paintings About That Experience Are Selling for Nearly $300,000

Prices for the visceral art of Winfred Rembert, the late Pulitzer Prize winner, have tripled in six months.

By Katya Kazakina, Sep 30, 2022

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Why Do Artists Leave Their Galleries? It’s About Money—and a Whole Lot More

The announcements of new artist-dealer relationships are coming at an increasingly fast clip. Here's what's driving the musical chairs.

By Katya Kazakina, Sep 23, 2022

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As They Arrive in New York, the Dealers Behind Sprüth Magers Discuss How a Gallery Can Have a ‘Cultural Footprint’

The much-admired dealers of 20th century titans are debuting in New York with an exhibition of work by John Baldessari.

By Katya Kazakina, Sep 1, 2022

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Musicians and Movie Stars Have Had Managers Forever. Now, It’s Becoming Big Business to Manage Artists, Too

Longtime art advisors say that managing artists has become the fastest-growing segment of their business.

By Katya Kazakina, Aug 26, 2022

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A 54-Year-Old History Teacher in Connecticut Just Became One of the Art Market’s Fastest-Rising Stars

It helps that Rob Ober was previously a collector and dealer.

By Katya Kazakina, Aug 4, 2022

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The U.S. Dollar Is the Strongest It’s Been in Two Decades. So What Does Its Growing Power Mean for the Art Market?

Americans' buying power is growing fast—at least for now.

By Katya Kazakina, Jul 29, 2022

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Forget the Hamptons. Artists, Dealers, and Advisors Are Congregating in a New Bucolic Contemporary Art Hub: Maine

The state has always been a haven for artists. Now, the rest of the art world is starting to catch up.

By Katya Kazakina, Jul 22, 2022

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Asian Collectors Were on the Bleeding Edge of the Recent Art-Market Boom. Now, They’re Pumping the Brakes

The most recent contemporary-art evening sales in Hong Kong were down a combined 30 percent from a year earlier.

By Katya Kazakina, Jul 7, 2022

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Young Female Artists Are Finally Getting Some Art-Market Traction—But Their Predecessors Remain Scandalously Undervalued

Work by female artists born between 1930 and 1975 accounted for just 5.3 percent of the $16.7 billion in auction sales in the past five years.

By Katya Kazakina, Jul 4, 2022

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I’ve Seen a Lot of Money Grabs in My Career as an Art Market Reporter. NFT.NYC Topped Them All

The crypto world and the art world are both built on a desire for access. What happens when they collide?

By Katya Kazakina, Jun 24, 2022

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Has the Art Market Peaked? Here Are 3 Signs Experts Are Watching for as a Recession Looms

It’s not a matter of if, but when and how bad it’s going to hit.

By Katya Kazakina, Jun 17, 2022

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When Power Advisor Allan Schwartzman Left Sotheby’s, Everyone Wondered What Was Next. Now He’s Ready for the Big Reveal

The advisor unveils his vision for a new kind of art advisory that caters not only to collectors, but to artists and museums.

By Katya Kazakina, Jun 10, 2022

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At the Peak of His Career, Simon Hantaï Stopped Selling His Art. Now, A Powerful Network Wants to Rebuild His Market

The Fondation Louis Vuitton opened a centenary Hantaï exhibition in Paris last week.

By Katya Kazakina, May 27, 2022

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The Surprising New Record for Ernie Barnes Didn’t Come From Left Field. We Deconstruct the Playbook for Selling ‘The Sugar Shack’

How the players pulled off a jaw-dropping sale that is already reshaping the artist's market.

By Katya Kazakina, May 20, 2022