NFTs Owners of Justin Aversano’s ‘Cognition’ NFTs Can Claim the Physical Paintings Their Works Are Based on at a One-Night Pop-Up Show The NFTs, based on original paintings and priced at 1 ETH each, sold out as soon as they dropped in August. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 6, 2022
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: South Korean Collector Youngsang Lee on Loving Art Enough to Brush One of His Sculpture’s Wigs The Seoul-based millennial holds court on elevating the work of his Korean peers while still keeping a global view. By Tim Schneider, Sep 6, 2022
Galleries 13 Buzzy Back-to-School Gallery Shows to See in New York This September, From a Red-Hot Group Show to Rick Lowe’s Gagosian Debut It's "back to school" for the art world—here's a guide to the best openings on tap this week. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 6, 2022
NFTs Metakovan and Twobadour Joined Forces to Buy the $69.3 Million Beeple. Here’s What Their Split Tells Us About the Future of the NFT Market Metapurse has had to change course amid the bear market for NFTs. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 6, 2022
Art Fairs Your Go-To Guide to All the Art Fairs Taking Place in New York During the 2022 Edition of Armory Week For the first time in years, these events will take place largely without mandatory health and safety requirements. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 6, 2022
Art Fairs The Inaugural Frieze Seoul Opens With Multimillion-Dollar Sales, a New Generation of Collectors, and a Cameo From a K-Pop Legend Here's what it felt like on the ground on opening day of the highly anticipated fair at a key moment for Asia's art market. By Naomi Rea, Sep 2, 2022
Art Fairs With a Little Help From Frieze Seoul, Longstanding Korean Art Fair KIAF Comes Roaring Back Players in the market hope to make Seoul into the art world's new Hong Kong. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 2, 2022
Auctions A Banksy Mural in L.A. Is Hitting the Auction Block—With the Whole Building It Was Painted on Attached—for as Much as $30 Million But insiders worry the painting could be removed and sold separately. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 2, 2022
Auctions The Rapper Skepta Is Helping Curate an Upcoming Sotheby’s Sale in London—and He’s Including His First-Ever Painting The British-Nigerian grime star has chosen a group of 8 to 12 paintings to include in the auction house’s Contemporary Curated sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 1, 2022
NFTs OpenSea, One of the Top NFT Platforms, Has Seen Trading Volume Fall by More Than 90 Percent Since January A representative for OpenSea said the method of measurement was not accurate—but by any measure, sales are down. By Vittoria Benzine, Aug 31, 2022
Auctions 10 Rare Pennies Just Sold for $1.1 Million at a California Auction, With the Rarest of All Fetching $365,000 It's a lot of money to pay for pennies. By Dorian Batycka, Aug 31, 2022
Market A New Exhibition in Hong Kong Aims to Boost the Market for Female Abstract Expressionists—the Ones You Know and the Ones You Don’t Art Intelligence Global is inaugurating its Hong Kong exhibition space with a showcase of five Ab-Ex artists. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 31, 2022
NFTs Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform Their New Single in a Yuga Labs Metaverse During MTV’s Video Music Awards The rappers performed their new song “From the D to the LBC” in Yuga Labs’s upcoming metaverse environment, the “Otherside.” By Dorian Batycka, Aug 30, 2022
Art Collectors What Does K-Pop Star RM Collect? Here Are 8 Artists the Burgeoning Celebrity Patron Has Snapped Up The singer and rapper's personal collection focuses on Korean artists and Impressionism. By Vittoria Benzine, Aug 30, 2022
Art Fairs Can the Art-o-Rama Fair Turn the Seaside City of Marseilles Into an Art-Market Destination? This year's edition of the fair included 62 exhibitors. By Anna Sansom, Aug 30, 2022
