Artnet News Pro How Much Does an Art Dealer Really Make? We Asked a Few Hundred of Them—Here’s What We Found Given the stark income gap, some are asking why trade organizations have not taken a closer look. By Zachary Small & Eileen Kinsella, May 31, 2021
Artnet News Pro Why Are High-End Galleries Jumping Into Bed With Luxury Hotels? The union of luxury hotels and blue-chip art began 20 years ago—but the latest resurgence of high-end travel is taking it to new heights. By Maïa Morgensztern, May 30, 2021
Artnet News Pro Which Artists Have Generated the Most Money at Auction So Far This Year? What if I told you that Mad Dog Jones generated more money at auction in the first four months of 2020 than Rodin or Murakami? By Julia Halperin, May 27, 2021
Artnet News Pro Why Did the Star Lot of a Christie’s Single-Lot Sale in Hong Kong Flop This Week? That’s the $58 Million Question No one took home Xu Beihong's painting 'Slave and Lion.' By Eileen Kinsella, May 26, 2021
Artnet News Pro Christie’s Hong Kong Auction Week Kicks Off With a $204 Million Evening Sale, Led by Yet Another Blockbuster Basquiat The wide-ranging sale was met with intense demand in Asia. By Eileen Kinsella, May 25, 2021
Artnet News Pro Art Businesses Are Uniquely Susceptible to Cybercrime. Here Are a Few Simple Ways to Protect Yours, According to Top Experts As an industry that still finalizes multimillion-dollar deals over email, the art trade has special vulnerabilities. By Ivan Macquisten, May 25, 2021
Artnet News Pro Signaling Growing Consolidation, London’s Fine Art Group Acquires One of America’s Largest Art Advisories The newly expanded Fine Art Group will grow its presence in the U.S. By Katya Kazakina, May 24, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks That Sold at Auction Around the World in April 2021 We combed through the results to bring you the top 15 lots of April 2021. By Artnet News, May 21, 2021
Artnet News Pro Is This the Art Fair of the Future? At Art Basel Hong Kong, Dealers Beam in as Holograms and Galleries Hawk NFTs for Crypto Even with a pared-down exhibitor list and stringent travel restrictions, artwork was moving briskly at Art Basel Hong Kong. By Vivienne Chow, May 21, 2021
Artnet News Pro The Launch of David Zwirner’s New Click-to-Buy Online Marketplace Is Already a Success. Here’s How Much Sold on Day One The dealer's son, Lucas Zwirner, is heading up the new site Platform. By Taylor Dafoe, May 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro This Mega-Collector Bought $100 Million Worth of Art at Last Week’s Auctions, Including Basquiat’s $50 Million Take on the Medicis The same buyer also offloaded a few lower-priced works. By Katya Kazakina, May 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro What Is Driving Hong Kong’s Latest Auction Boom? Our Data Provides an Answer We read the tea leaves in data from the Artnet Price Database to give you a sense of what's in store. By Julia Halperin, May 19, 2021
Artnet News Pro The Newark Museum’s Hugely Controversial Sotheby’s Sale Nets the Institution $5.9 Million, Even as Three Works Fail to Meet Expectations The sale was widely criticized by current and former museum directors. By Eileen Kinsella, May 19, 2021
Artnet News Pro Meet the New Generation of Young, Obscenely Wealthy, and Totally Obsessed Collectors Who Are Upending Asia’s Art Market Work by young international artists is going gangbusters in Hong Kong. The demand is largely fueled by collectors under 45. By Vivienne Chow, May 18, 2021
Artnet News Pro Who Bought Elizabeth Peyton’s $2.1 Million David Bowie Portrait at Sotheby’s? This NFT Collector Diversifying Into Blue-Chip Art Dealers and auction houses hope that more crypto millionaires will transition into traditional collecting categories. By Katya Kazakina, May 18, 2021
