Art Fairs The Class of 2019? Meet 6 Fast-Rising Artists Having Star Turns at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach These emerging artists work in all manner of media, from ceramics to textile to painting. By Artnet News, Dec 3, 2019
Art Fairs As Jetsetters Prepare to Descend on the Eroding Shores of Miami, Art Basel Awkwardly Tries to Address Climate Change How can an industry that hinges on international travel confront climate change? By Eileen Kinsella & Naomi Rea, Dec 2, 2019
Auctions Auction Houses in North America Don’t Have to Give Artists a Cut of Sales. This Small Canadian Business Decided to Do It Anyway Peter Estey Fine Art is a tiny auction house with a big dream to level the playing field for artists circulating on the secondary market. By Kate Brown, Dec 2, 2019
Art Fairs From the MoMA Effect to a New Platform for Massive Art, Here’s What’s New at Art Basel Miami Beach This Year The new "Meridians" platform will showcase large works in a massive ballroom. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 2, 2019
Auctions Experts Say This Painting of a Random Woman Is Really a Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I—and Now It Could Fetch $322,000 at Auction This early piece of “brand management,” as a Bonham’s expert puts it, contrasted a “dour” image of the queen. By Nan Stewert, Nov 27, 2019
Art Fairs Art Basel Cancels Its Experimental $15,000-a-Ticket Abu Dhabi Conference Just Two Months After It Was Announced The Swiss art fair blames a short lead time, not the hefty ticket price. By Naomi Rea, Nov 27, 2019
Analysis The Market for Disturbing Nazi Artifacts Is Growing. Who Is Buying Them—and Why? The market has become so profitable that scammers are creating forgeries of the material. By Daniel Grant, Nov 27, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Stands by Its Decision to Sell a $1 Million Roman Sculpture Despite Its Links to a Disgraced Dealer An expert claims the statue of Eros can be linked to the notorious antiquities dealer Robin Symes. By Caroline Elbaor, Nov 26, 2019
Art Fairs Puerto Rico’s MECA Art Fair Boosts an Art Scene Valiantly Struggling Amid Hurricane Damage, Debt, and Upheaval In San Juan, an international roster of dealers came together for a fair that definitely wasn't business-as-usual. By Brian Boucher, Nov 25, 2019
Analysis Museum Workers Across the Country Are Unionizing. Here’s What’s Driving a Movement That’s Been Years in the Making The reasons tell us a lot about the state of the arts today. By Catherine Wagley, Nov 25, 2019
Analysis Goodbye Art World, Hello Art Industry: How the Art Market Has Transformed—Radically—Over the Past 30 Years Today’s art business looks nothing like it did 30 years ago. By Tim Schneider, Nov 25, 2019
Auctions New York Fall 2019 Auction Round-Up: Here’s Everything We Published on the Megawatt Sales in One Place Our comprehensive recap of the biggest sales, flops, and other highlights of the $1.1 billion week. By Artnet News, Nov 22, 2019
Auctions We Broke Down the Data From New York’s Fall Auctions. Here Are 3 Things They Reveal About Where the Art Market Is Headed Consult our charts to learn which segments of the art market are growing—and which ones are shrinking quickly. By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Nov 22, 2019
Auctions Want an ‘Intimate Digital Experience’ With Marina Abramović? The Artist Is Selling Her First-Ever ‘Mixed Reality’ Work at Auction Has Abramović invented a new genre of art? By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 21, 2019
Market ‘The Elephant in the Room Is the Mega-Galleries’: Dealer Stefania Bortolami on How the Art Business Changed in 2019, and Where It’s Headed Artnet News sat down with Bortolami to to dissect all that happened in the art world this year, and why now is the age of the mega-galleries. By Naomi Rea, Nov 21, 2019
