Analysis The Gray Market: Why Portia de Rossi’s Art-Tech Startup Has a Hard Road Ahead (and Other Insights) Our columnist deconstructs Portia de Rossi's 3D edition business and the problems of crowdfunding street art with Bitcoin. By Tim Schneider, May 21, 2018
Auctions Diddy Revealed as the Buyer of Kerry James Marshall’s Record-Breaking $21 Million Painting The hip-hop producer and rapper placed the winning bid at Sotheby's on Tuesday. By Henri Neuendorf, May 18, 2018
Art Fairs Art Stage Jakarta Cancels Its 2018 Fair, Citing Conflict With the Asian Games But organizers vow to return in 2019. By Sarah Cascone, May 18, 2018
Market Embattled Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Plans to Relaunch His Career as an Art Dealer The billionaire has already sold a Warhol and bought a record-setting Monet for his new company—and set up a nontraditional website. By Julia Halperin, May 18, 2018
Auctions Anchored by Blue-Chip Mainstays, Christie’s Contemporary Sale Delivers a Whopping $397 Million—But Falls Short of Last Year Francis Bacon led the pack with his portrait of former lover George Dyer, which sold for $44 million. By Eileen Kinsella, May 17, 2018
Auctions Phillips’s Contemporary Sale Takes in a Respectable $132 Million, Despite Big-Ticket Stumbles From German Artists The sale set world auction records for Robert Motherwell, Pat Steir, and Cory Arcangel. By Henri Neuendorf, May 17, 2018
Art Fairs 7 Young Artists Making a Big Impression at Photo London The Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter joined Magnum at the tender age of 25. By Javier Pes, May 17, 2018
Auctions Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Takes $391 Million, Highlighted by Basquiat, Hockney, and an ‘Epic’ Kerry James Marshall Marshall now definitively joins the first order of contemporary art market stars. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, May 16, 2018
Market There’s Going to Be Another Rockefeller Auction—This Time for Items as Cheap as $30 A Connecticut auction house is selling lower-priced lots from the Rockefeller estate. By Henri Neuendorf, May 16, 2018
Auctions Activists Gather for a Gloomy Vigil Outside of Sotheby’s to Protest First Sale of Berkshire Museum Works "It's divided the community, and this whole thing could have been avoided," said group representative Hope Davis. By Caroline Goldstein, May 15, 2018
Market ‘Arrested Development’ Actor Portia de Rossi Has Invented a New Technology That She Hopes Will Render Art Galleries Obsolete The new venture, called General Public, is based on Synograph, a technology de Rossi developed with Fujifilm. By Taylor Dafoe, May 15, 2018
Auctions Led by a $157 Million Modigliani, Sotheby’s Otherwise Tepid Impressionist Sale Makes $318 Million The much-anticipated Modigliani became the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction—even if the rest of the sale felt sleepy. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2018
Auctions Rockefeller Decoded: Christie’s Marathon of Sales Generated $832 Million—and Some Big Surprises, Too A striking number of works on offer sold for more than five times their high estimates. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2018
Auctions Sold for $115 Million, David Rockefeller’s Picasso Will Go on View at the Musee d’Orsay The work will go on view in Paris in September. By Henri Neuendorf, May 14, 2018
Auctions From Chinese Trophy to Movie Star: 5 Reasons Why Modigliani May Actually Earn His $150 Million Price Tag Examining the forces behind the artist's rise to global fame. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2018
