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
Art Fairs TEFAF Is Known for Its Top-Notch Vetting Process. But Can It Work Online? Here's how the fair is applying its high standards to the first online edition. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 14, 2020
Auctions Michael Jackson’s Curious Personal Art Collection (Plus the Jackson 5’s First Recording Contract) Are Up for Auction On offer are numerous Peter Pan-themed sculptures and a model pirate ship gifted by Elizabeth Taylor. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 13, 2020
Market Christie’s Experimental Partnership With the Biennale Paris Fair Bombs With Less Than a Quarter of the Works Sold The new online event reaped just $1.7 million in sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 13, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Reschedules Its Marquee New York Fall Sale to October as Auction Houses Work to Avoid Clashing With the US Election The auction house also announced an additional set of marquee sales set for December. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 9, 2020
Art Fairs Buoyed By Interest in Young African Artists, London’s Only IRL Art Fair 1-54 Shows the Value of In-Person Events 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair went ahead in London despite the cancellation of Frieze. By Naomi Rea, Oct 9, 2020
Art Fairs Two Innovative Brazilian Galleries Have Set Up ‘Surrogate’ Frieze London Booths Back Home in Rio de Janeiro A Gentil Carioca and Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel are trying out a clever approach to the online viewing room. By Kate Brown, Oct 8, 2020
Auctions Deutsche Bank Will Sell Off 200 Modern Works From Its Corporate Collection to Pivot Its Focus to Contemporary Art The bank, which says it wants to buy more "up-and-coming talents," bought several works at Frieze London. By Kate Brown, Oct 8, 2020
Auctions A Matthew Wong Painting Just Sold at Christie’s for a Record $4.5 Million, Marking a Frenzied Turning Point in the Late Artist’s Market The price soared above the painting's high estimate of $700,000. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 7, 2020
Galleries The Top 17 Percent of Germany’s Art Galleries Made 80 Percent of All Revenue Last Year, a New Report Finds "Gallery sales are extremely unevenly distributed," the authors of the study say. By Kate Brown, Oct 7, 2020
Auctions A $28 Million T-Rex Skeleton Was the Undisputed King of Christie’s Otherwise Muted $341 Million Contemporary Art Auction Christie's added a fair amount of theater to the hybrid event, including live commentary by two of its specialists. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 7, 2020
Auctions Mega-Collector Ronald Perelman’s $28 Million Gerhard Richter Carried Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction in Hong Kong A museum in Japan snapped up the Richter work during the $88 million auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 6, 2020
Analysis American Museums Are Taking Advantage of Relaxed Rules to Sell More Than $100 Million of Art at Auction This Season The Baltimore Museum is one of eight art institutions selling blue-chip art at auction this season amid relaxed rules about deaccessioning. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 5, 2020
Galleries Gagosian Goes Netflix? The Mega-Gallery Is Creating Original Content That Pairs Artists With Luminaries Like Malcolm Gladwell and Jeff Tweedy Gagosian Premieres looks to celebrity programming to replace the buzz of physical openings. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 5, 2020
