The Gray Market Why the Art Market’s Pivot to Asia Is About More Than Chasing New Wealth (and Other Insights) Our columnist explores why art sellers see Asia as the world's best growth market—even though Wall Street disagrees. By Tim Schneider, Oct 19, 2021
The Gray Market Why A.I. Art Authentication Isn’t Necessarily the Game-Changer the Industry Wants It to Be (and Other Insights) Our columnist writes up a non-techie's guide to A.I. attribution research using a freshly disputed Rubens painting. By Tim Schneider, Oct 5, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Art Industry Should Brace Itself for the Permanent Staycation Era (and Other Insights) After surveying the travel landscape, our columnist finds the strong Euro flavor of Art Basel 2021 is a taste of more regionalism to come. By Tim Schneider, Sep 28, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Wave of Climate-Crisis Art Is More Than Just Virtue-Signaling, Even If It’s Not Enough (and Other Insights) Our columnist asks who will follow the lead of artists confronting collectors with the ecological crisis at even the most commercial events. By Tim Schneider, Sep 21, 2021
The Gray Market How the ‘Platform Delusion’ of Big Tech Helps Explain Why Galleries Are Finally Turning Away From Big Art Fairs (and Other Insights) Our columnist transports lessons from a new book on Silicon Valley that clarify galleries' growing hesitance around fairs. By Tim Schneider, Sep 14, 2021
The Gray Market Why Art Basel’s $1.6 Million ‘Solidarity Fund’ Creates One of the Most Compelling Social Experiments in Art-Market History (And Other Insights) Our columnist uses news of Art Basel's unprecedented, late-breaking package of exhibitor benefits to vault toward the bigger picture. By Tim Schneider, Sep 7, 2021
The Gray Market Why Facebook’s Virtual Office Initiative Raises Big Questions About the Return of Live Art Fairs (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines what the tech giant's new remote office software says about virtual art fairs just ahead of their IRL return. By Tim Schneider, Aug 31, 2021
The Gray Market Coffee and Psilocybin: Why Two Seemingly Very Different Art Dealers Just Went Into Business Together (and Other Insights) Our columnist tries to tease out what dealer-artist Mike Egan and gallerist Meredith Rosen are up to in their new joint space. By Tim Schneider, Aug 17, 2021
The Gray Market Why Real Art Market Innovation Has Been Shamefully Scarce Even in the Face of the Pandemic (and Other Insights) Our columnist looks at the post-shutdown landscape and finds too many players too satisfied with making just enough changes to get by. By Tim Schneider, Aug 10, 2021
The Gray Market How France’s Plan to Give Teens Free Cash to Spend on Culture Exposes the Art World’s Deepest Anxieties (and Other Insights) Our columnist surveys the French government's Culture Pass initiative to discover what it can tell us about snobbery in the art world. By Tim Schneider, Aug 3, 2021
The Gray Market How One Dog-Eat-Dog Market Proves That the Art Industry Really Doesn’t Have to Be That Way (and Other Insights) Our columnist dives into another fiercely contested specialty market and drags out an important lesson by the scruff of its neck. By Tim Schneider, Jul 27, 2021
The Gray Market Why U.S. Business Trends Suggest the Pandemic Changed Far Less Than Predicted About the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist shows how 2021 is defying popular predictions about remote work and urban migration in epicenters of U.S. wealth. By Tim Schneider, Jul 20, 2021
The Gray Market How Hunter Biden’s Ethics Agreement Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Rising Artists (and Other Insights) Our columnist thinks through the curious ethics agreement between the presidential progeny’s gallery and the White House. By Tim Schneider, Jul 13, 2021
The Gray Market How the $5.4 Million World Wide Web NFT Lays Bare the Promises and Lies of the Crypto-Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines whether information really wants to be free, or if that old ruse suggests a deeper problem. By Tim Schneider, Jul 6, 2021
The Gray Market What Goldman Sachs’s Florida Expansion Tells Us About the Future of the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees the mega-bank’s plans for West Palm Beach as the latest sign the South Florida art market is here to stay. By Tim Schneider, Jun 22, 2021
