Analysis A Buyer’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial: What You Need to Know About the Exhibition’s Brightest Rising Stars We highlight nine artists in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, including the oldest and the youngest in the show. By Caroline Goldstein & Eileen Kinsella, May 22, 2019
Market Hauser & Wirth Hoovers Up Yet Another Superstar Artist, Poaching John Chamberlain’s Estate From Gagosian After a bruising auction season, the artist's family calls the move the start of a "new chapter." By Eileen Kinsella, May 21, 2019
Auctions Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 15 Key Takeaways From New York’s Eyebrow-Singeing $2 Billion Spring Art Sales From the most expensive work to the biggest flop, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Tim Schneider & Eileen Kinsella, May 20, 2019
Auctions Francis Bacon’s Screaming Pope and a String of Artist Records Deliver Sotheby’s a Robust $342 Million Contemporary Sale Francis Bacon's "Study for a Head" and Mark Rothko's "Untitled" each netted $50 million, while new marks were set for Lee Krasner and others. By Tim Schneider, May 17, 2019
Auctions De Kooning and KAWS Lend Multi-Generational Firepower to Phillips’s Solid $100 Million Modern and Contemporary Sale The street artist KAWS fared especially well, as two paintings by the neo-Pop artist soared past their estimates. By Brian Boucher, May 16, 2019
Market What Does the $89 Million Sale of a Prime Robert Rauschenberg at Christie’s Mean for the Artist’s Long-Quiet Market? For decades, Robert Rauschenberg's market lagged behind that of his peers. By Eileen Kinsella, May 16, 2019
Auctions Jeff Koons’s Bunny Sets a New Record for a Living Artist in Christie’s Half-Billion-Dollar Postwar and Contemporary Art Sale Koons's 'Rabbit' was part of a blue-chip collection of work belonging to the late publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2019
Auctions A Record-Shattering $111 Million Monet Powers an Otherwise Staid $350 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale at Sotheby’s Overall, the sale provided more solidity than stimulation. By Tim Schneider, May 14, 2019
Auctions This Roy Lichtenstein Mural Once Decorated the Bathroom of a Famed Playboy. Now It Could Be Yours for $1.2 Million The bespoke work was one of many to populate Gunter Sachs’s famous, Swiss, pop-art-filled apartment. By Taylor Dafoe, May 14, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale Soars to $400 Million, Fueled by Treasures Once Owned by Condé Nast’s S.I. Newhouse A Cézanne picture that was famously stolen and recovered in 1999 led the way at $52 million. By Eileen Kinsella, May 13, 2019
Auctions Here’s What to Expect at the $1.3 Billion Spring Auctions in New York, From a $58 Million Koons to a Once-Lost Cézanne All the highlights from the Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art auctions in New York next week. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2019
Auctions ‘They Are the Greatest Family of Non-Royal Collectors Ever’: See 7 Highlights From the Prestigious Rothschild Family Sale at Christie’s A writing desk commissioned by Marie Antoinette and a painting by Fragonard are among the lots on offer. By Caroline Goldstein, May 8, 2019
Market Zao Wou-Ki’s Market Is Even Hotter Than You Think. Here’s the Data to Prove It After a record-torching year at auction in 2018, Zao Wou-Ki seems to be getting much harder to acquire—and even pricier than ever. By Tim Schneider, May 8, 2019
Art Fairs Price Check! Here’s What Sold—And For How Much—at Frieze New York 2019 Here's what art dealers say they sold at the New York fair (though watch out for number-fudging and other kinds of general sneakiness). By Caroline Goldstein, May 6, 2019
Analysis A Buyer’s Guide to the Venice Biennale: What Collectors Need to Know About the (Technically) Noncommercial Event We delved into the markets of eight artists representing their countries at the Venice Biennale. Here's a guide to their most sought-after works. By Melanie Gerlis, May 6, 2019
