Market How an Artist Named Mr. Doodle Became a Multimillion-Dollar Auction Sensation With a Bunch of Squiggles and ‘Like’-able Branding Powered by towering sales results in Asia and millions of social followers, Mr. Doodle has quietly taken the auction market by storm. By Tim Schneider, Mar 1, 2021
Auctions A Bargain Hunter Picked Up This Small Ceramic Bowl for $35 at a Junk Sale. Now, It Could Sell for Up to $500,000 at Sotheby’s As it turns out, it's an exceedingly rare example of Ming Dynasty porcelain. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 26, 2021
Market ‘It’s All Happening’: As an NFT Artwork by Beeple Sells for $6.6 Million, Market Observers Are Torn Between Jubilation and Alarm Within the space of an hour, a work on offer at Christie's jumped from $100 to $1 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 26, 2021
Analysis Steep Job Losses in California, Home to the Largest Creative Economy in the US, Spell Trouble for the Rest of the Country, a Report Says The report's authors hope to suggest a path to recovery. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 25, 2021
Art Fairs Frieze Has Awarded Artist, Poet, and Chef Precious Okoyomon With Its Closely Watched $30,000 Commission in New York The artist will also have a solo show at Performance Space New York during the fair. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 25, 2021
Auctions Treasures From the Blue-Chip Art Collection of Texas Oil Heiress Anne Marion Could Fetch $150 Million at Sotheby’s The late billionaire assembled a collection of 20th-century American masterworks that has rarely been seen in public. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions A Vincent van Gogh Landscape Never Before Seen in Public Could Fetch Nearly $10 Million at Auction Next Month The painting has been housed in the private collection of a French family for more than a century. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Market What a Steal! For Less Than $250, You Can Get a Set of Limited-Edition Artworks by the Likes of Jenny Holzer and Martin Creed Mailed to Your Door The portfolio, a nod to a cultish mail art project from the late 1960s, is available for pre-sale now. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions In the Latest NFT Auction Frenzy, an Artist Just Sold a Collection of Digital Furniture for $450,000—See Images of the Otherworldly Designs Here The auction sold out in less than 10 minutes. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 23, 2021
Auctions Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000 The price was 300 in Ethereum. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions Paintings of King Charles Spaniels and Other Treasures From the Estate of John McCain’s Late Mother Sold for Nearly $100,000 at Auction Roberta McCain, who died at age 108 last year, was an avid collector of objects both expensive and cheap. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 22, 2021
Market How Artist Yoshitomo Nara’s Return to Japan After 12 Years Abroad Reshaped His Style—and Supercharged His Soaring Market The artist's famously sassy cartoon characters command millions of dollars. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions A $9.8 Million Auction of Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Their Artist Friends More Than Doubled Its Estimate at Sotheby’s Paris The auction offered an eclectic mix of work by the artists and those in their inner circle. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 18, 2021
Market A Banksy Mega-Collector Just Bought the Mural of a Girl With a Hula Hoop That Appeared in Nottingham Last Year The work is headed for an exhibition at Moyse's Hall Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 17, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Hopes to Open a New Frontier of the Art Market With the First-Ever Major Auction of a Wholly Digital Blockchain Artwork The starting price for the work is just $100. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 16, 2021
