Market France Has Made Lockdown Exceptions for Auction Houses and Chocolate Shops. Now, a Gallery Association Is Suing for Being Excluded Dealers say letting auction houses, but not galleries, remain open gives them an unfair competitive advantage. By Naomi Rea, Apr 9, 2021
Art Fairs Art Basel Hong Kong’s 2021 Fair Will Be Less Than Half the Size of Its Previous In-Person Edition, and Filled With ‘Ghost Booths’ Only around 30 dealers from outside the region will participate in this year's event. By Pac Pobric, Apr 8, 2021
Auctions Following Public Pressure, eBay Has Cancelled a Sale of Wartime Drawings Reportedly Made by an Artist in a U.S. Japanese Internment Camp A number of organizations wrote to the auction house saying they objected to "profiteering off the oppression of Japanese Americans." By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 7, 2021
Auctions A Picasso Portrait Could Rake in $55 Million at Christie’s Next Month, Suggesting a Surge in the Art Market’s Confidence The work, depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter, was painted in 1932, Picasso's so-called "year of wonders." By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 6, 2021
Galleries Some of the World’s Top Artists Are Trying Their Hand at NFTs. The World’s Top Galleries Are a Bit More Skeptical Here's why artists are the ones leading the charge. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 6, 2021
Market Rise of the Cyborg Art Dealers: How the Art Market Is Preparing to Adapt to a Hybrid Online-IRL Future After 2020, here's what has changed, what will stay the same, and what's left to innovate in all corners of the art market. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2021
Galleries Salon 94 Has Opened a Strikingly Beautiful New Headquarters in an Upper East Side Mansion—See Photos of the Historic Space Here The gallery is opening with two shows, from Niki de Saint Phalle and Derrick Adams. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2021
Art Fairs Art Dubai, the First Major In-Person Art Fair Since the Pandemic, Proves That Collectors Are Ready to Show Up and Spend The successful fair comes at a moment of great change for the United Arab Emirates. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Apr 2, 2021
Auctions Phillips Is Entering the Digital Fray With the Sale of a Mad Dog Jones NFT That Will Generate New NFTs Every Month The artist calls the work the first “multi-generational NFT.” By Sarah Cascone, Apr 2, 2021
Market The Crypto Investor Who Underbid the $69 Million Beeple NFT Has Moved on to Buying His Second Choice: Picasso Justin Sun wants to create a blockchain registry for NFTs of the world's priciest works of art. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 1, 2021
Market An Art Historian Just Minted an NFT of Salvator Mundi Holding a Fistful of Bills—and He’s Hoping to Sell It for $450 Million Author Ben Lewis will share the proceeds with the Louisiana family who sold the original Leonardo work for just $1,175. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 1, 2021
Market How London’s Art Industry Is Reimagining Mayfair in an Effort to Keep the Tony Neighborhood a Hotbed for Contemporary Art Frieze is leading the way by opening 6,400-square-foot galleries that international dealers can rent for temporary exhibitions. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Mar 31, 2021
Market What Lockdown? While You Were at Home, These Art Dealers Where Quietly Crisscrossing the US to Get an Edge on the Competition Some art dealers had to make trips to keep their businesses afloat during the pandemic. By Nate Freeman, Mar 29, 2021
Art Fairs Here’s What Sold at Art Basel’s Semi-Exclusive ‘Pioneers’ Online Viewing Room, Which Included Only 100 Dealers Sales were solid and ranged up to six figures, exhibitors report. By Kate Brown & Eileen Kinsella, Mar 26, 2021
Auctions A Medici-Themed Basquiat Painting Could Sell for $50 Million at Sotheby’s to Become One of the Priciest Works by the Artist Ever 'Versus Medici' hails from 1982, the most sought-after era of the artist's production. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
