The Gray Market Here’s Who Financial Turmoil Is Likely to Hit Hardest in the Art Industry—and the Unlikely Type of Business It May Accelerate Our columnist wargames out how turmoil at global banks translates to both good and bad news for art-market lending and borrowing. By Tim Schneider, Mar 21, 2023
The Gray Market Progress Helped Destroy Silicon Valley Bank. Stasis Should Shield the Art Market Our columnist explains why the death of Silicon Valley Bank makes the art market's traditionalism look wise for once. By Tim Schneider, Mar 14, 2023
The Gray Market New York’s New Art Map: What 9 Years of Data About Gallery Openings Reveal About the Shifting Geography of Cool Which neighborhoods are rising—and which have dramatically fallen from grace (with charts!). By Tim Schneider, Mar 7, 2023
The Gray Market The Virality of That Broken Jeff Koons Sculpture Says a Lot About Art’s Place in the Mainstream Our columnist picks up the pieces of why a smashed Jeff Koons edition worth $42,000 became one of the biggest stories anywhere. By Tim Schneider, Mar 1, 2023
The Gray Market Despite a Crypto Crash, Art’s Most Powerful Players Have Decided That NFTs Are Not a Fad and Are Very Cool Actually Our columnist unpacks the disconnect between crypto's ghastly mainstream profile and its resilience in the art establishment. By Tim Schneider, Feb 15, 2023
The Gray Market The Traditional Borders of Taste Have Melted Down. The Way We Talk About the Art Market Is Still Catching Up Lessons about presenting, marketing, and selling art from an expansive show of 'Drawing by Sculptors' at Helena Anrather gallery. By Tim Schneider, Feb 8, 2023
The Gray Market U.S. Lawmakers Are Suckers for Star Power. That’s a Big Obstacle to Reining in A.I. Image Generators Our columnist contrasts the U.S. Senate's vigorous defense of Taylor Swift fans to the silence around visual artists' rights in the A.I. era. By Tim Schneider, Jan 31, 2023
The Gray Market ChatGPT May Well Rewrite the Rules of the Art World. But Art Also Shows Us the Limits of What A.I. Can Do Our columnist digs into the art-industry impacts of ChatGPT, the A.I.-powered chatbot sparking crises across multiple walks of life. By Tim Schneider, Jan 24, 2023
The Gray Market Here’s What the Alarming Cancellation of Masterpiece London Does (And Does Not) Mean for the Art Business in 2023 As the art calendar kicks off, our columnist explains what to expect in a year full of uncertainty. By Tim Schneider, Jan 17, 2023
The Gray Market Government Regulators Are Zeroing in on the Metaverse. Digital Art Could Get Caught in the Middle Our columnist explains why art could be forced to contend with more regulatory headaches in the metaverse than anywhere else before. By Tim Schneider, Jan 11, 2023
The Gray Market 8 Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2023 (Including an Art-Fair Death Foretold) Our columnist mans the fortune teller's booth again to try to envision what awaits the art world in the year ahead. By Tim Schneider, Jan 4, 2023
The Gray Market Artnet Newstradamus Tim Schneider Grades His 10 Highly Specific Art-World Predictions for 2022 Our columnist passes judgment on the predictions he made at the start of 2022 to see where he got it right and where he missed the mark. By Tim Schneider, Dec 20, 2022
The Gray Market How Random International, Maker of the Immersive Sensation ‘Rain Room,’ Is Bringing the Experiential Art Business Into the 21st Century The 'Living Room' appears 10 years after Random International's breakout 'Rain Room'. By Tim Schneider, Dec 13, 2022
The Gray Market Why the Crypto Winter Could Actually Be a Good Thing for Digital Art Our columnist analyzes two new nonprofit digital projects to try and chart a path out of tech's boom-and-bust cycle. By Tim Schneider, Dec 7, 2022
The Gray Market What the Colossal Failure of FTX Means for Art Basel’s Efforts to Thrust the Art Industry Into Its Crypto Era The fair is inaugurating its new blockchain-based platform Arcual while recently bankrupted FTX plunges crypto into infamy. What's the way forward? By Tim Schneider, Dec 1, 2022
