Galleries With London’s High-Priced Real-Estate Market in Flux, Galleries Are Embracing the Pop Up. Is the Trend Here to Stay? As galleries abandon permanent spaces for pop-up models, is London's white-hot rental market finally cooling down? By Naomi Rea, Oct 26, 2020
Art Fairs ‘We’ve Changed Everything This Year’: Dealers in Paris Get Creative to Present Lively New Art During FIAC Week (Without FIAC) From a socially distanced Paris Internationale to an impromptu gallery share initiative, these experiments kept Paris's art week lively. By Devorah Lauter, Oct 26, 2020
Auctions Most of Them Melted. But the Two Surviving Puppets From the Holiday Film ‘Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ Could Be Yours for $250,000 A Christmas museum in Ohio has launched a Go Fund Me to try and acquire the rare collectibles. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 23, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Spree of Livestreamed Art Sales in London and Paris Nets a Limp $118 Million as the Market Gets the Jitters Not even the first mixed-reality work to ever be sold at auction, Marina Abramovic's "The Life," could enliven the action. By Nate Freeman, Oct 22, 2020
Galleries Veteran Art Dealer Marian Goodman Will Close Her London Gallery, Citing Brexit and the Global Health Crisis The gallery is planning a new "flexible exhibition strategy" for the city. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 22, 2020
Market An Envoy of Eco-Conscious Art Dealers and Insiders Have Created a Simple Tool to Help the Industry Reduce Its Carbon Footprint The Gallery Climate Coalition has launched a carbon calculator tailored to the needs of the industry. By Naomi Rea, Oct 22, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Livestreamed Paris-to-London Hybrid Sale Pulled in $90 Million, Led by a Picasso and Banksy’s Irreverent Twist on Monet Observers describe it as "painting by numbers" auction action. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 21, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Sell a Nine-Foot-Tall Giacometti Sculpture for at Least $90 Million in an Unusual Sale Where the Bids Are Kept Secret The work reportedly comes from the collection of billionaire Ron Perelman. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 21, 2020
Auctions Works by Young Artists Boosted Phillips’s Solid $34 Million Sale to Kick Off the Fall Auction Season in London The sale failed to deliver on its most expensive lot, a painting by Georg Baselitz. By Naomi Rea, Oct 20, 2020
Art Fairs This New Palm Beach Art Fair Aims to Create Some Extra Buzz Around the City’s Burgeoning Art Market Veteran fair organizers David and Lee Ann Lester unveiled plans for the new event in Palm Beach—and the concept of an "art bubble." By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 20, 2020
Art Fairs Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and For How Much—at the 2020 Frieze London and Frieze Masters’ Online Viewing Room Here's our roundup of sales that went down at Frieze's latest online viewing room. By Artnet News, Oct 19, 2020
Market Art Dealers Are Notorious for Obscuring Prices. But as the Market Shifts Online, Many Are Finally Embracing Price Transparency The surge in online viewing rooms is poised to change the art industry's uneasy relationship to price transparency. By Darla Migan, Oct 19, 2020
Auctions A Decade Ago, Supersize Images by German Photographers Were Selling for Millions. Now, Prices Have Fallen Off a Cliff A work by Andreas Gursky sold in 2011 for more than the combined auction sales of every contemporary German photographer in the first half of 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 19, 2020
Auctions The Brooklyn Museum Just Made $6.6 Million Selling Art From Its Collection—and It’s Putting More on the Block The museum hopes to raise $40 million in total. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 16, 2020
Market The Beastie Boys’ Mike D Is Selling His Mom’s Eclectic Art Collection at Auction for as Much as $30 Million The top lot is a rare Bernini sculpture that could bring in as much as $12 million. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 16, 2020
