Artnet News Pro See How 11 Red-Hot Artists’ Primary Market Prices Compare With Their Auction Results Here's what the data shows. By Eileen Kinsella & Katya Kazakina, Nov 25, 2022
Artnet News Pro Smart Contracts Are Artists’ Best Weapon in the Fight Against Flippers. Here’s How They Work Here is everything you need to know to understand smart contracts—and how they can make the market more equitable. By Tim Schneider, Nov 22, 2022
Artnet News Pro Hot Lots and Top Flops: 9 Works That Shattered Expectations, for Good or Ill, During New York’s November Day Sales We look at the lots that overperformed and underperformed—and consider what it tells us about the state of the market. By Artnet News, Nov 22, 2022
Artnet News Pro A No-Nonsense Accounting Shows That Last Week’s $1.6 Billion New York Fall Auctions Were… Kind of a Dud It's fair to say a correction to the speculative bonanza has arrived. By Tim Schneider, Nov 21, 2022
Artnet News Pro Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 16 Key Takeaways From New York’s $3.2 Billion Fall Sales From the priciest work to the biggest flop (and more), here are our parting observations from New York's marquee auctions this November. By Artnet News, Nov 21, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: The Gavel Grind This week: assessing the auction cycle’s end, counting other people’s money, Betye Saar’s latest milestone, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Nov 18, 2022
Artnet News Pro ‘It’s Movie-Star Money From the 1980s’: Stefan Simchowitz, the Original Art Flipper, on How Artists Are Cashing In on Speculation The man who ushered in the flipping craze in the 2010s reflects on how the practice has changed—and metastasized. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 14, 2022
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Around the World in October 2022 See the full results from the Artnet Price Database. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 14, 2022
Artnet News Pro The Fight Against Flippers: How Artists and Dealers Are Trying to Beat Speculators at Their Own Game Rampant speculation has turned the market for emerging art upside down. Now, artists are determined to wrest back control. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 13, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: One Point Five Billion Dollars This week: Christie’s makes auction history, a Frida Kahlo legal conundrum, trophy lots keep rising, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Nov 11, 2022
Artnet News Pro Japan Boasts the World’s Third Largest Economy. So Why Does It Still Have a Disproportionately Small Share of the Global Art Market? Market initiatives in Tokyo and an emerging generation of serious collectors are signaling an art market expansion. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 7, 2022
Artnet News Pro ‘Inequalities Are Never Bad for the Art Market’: Economist Françoise Benhamou on What the Financial Headwinds Portend for the Industry From the pandemic to "wokeism," the French economist weighs in on the most pressing issues in today's art market. By Anna Sansom, Nov 6, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Fighting the Flippers This week: new resistance against rapid resales, a national shakeup at auction, Henry Taylor gets down to earth, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Nov 4, 2022
Ask an Art Advisor Is It Immoral to Buy Work Directly Out of a Young Artist’s Studio? Here’s What a Trusted Art Advisor Has to Say Plus, which artists are the most recession-proof, and is splitting sales evenly with my gallery really the fair thing to do? By Wendy Goldsmith, Nov 1, 2022
Artnet News Pro Alex Katz Was ‘Always a Bit of a Loner.’ Now, at Age 95, Collectors Won’t Leave Him—or His Spiking Market—Alone After more than eight decades of embracing flat,figurative painting, artist Alex Katz is getting the recognition he deserves. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 31, 2022