Auctions The Mayor of L.S. Lowry’s Hometown Implores Wealthy Athletes to Buy a $9 Million Soccer Painting by the Artist to Keep It in a Local Museum Otherwise the work could be sold off to a private collection. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 17, 2022
Auctions French Decorative Art From the Storied Hôtel Lambert Brought in $75 Million Across a Marathon Series of Sales at Sotheby’s The 17th-century country home hosted cultural luminaries like Voltaire, Coco Chanel, Delacroix, Chopin and Balzac over the years. By Dorian Batycka, Oct 17, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Says $107 Million London Frieze Contemporary Sales Are Its Best in Seven Years Despite several withdrawn lots, energy in the London saleroom was high By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 14, 2022
Auctions A Weak Pound Draws International Bidders to Phillips London Evening Sale, Bringing in $20.9 Million Despite Market Uncertainties The sale saw bidders from 38 countries, with 32 percent of them coming from Asia. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 14, 2022
Auctions Agnes Gund Is Selling a Multimillion-Dollar Roy Lichtenstein ‘Mirror’ to Fund Urgent Reproductive-Justice Organizing 'Mirror #5,' set to sell at Christie's, has a top estimate of $5.5 million. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 14, 2022
Market Can Flipping Art Ever Be a Good Thing? An Artist, Gallerist, and Entrepreneur Debate How to Make Speculation Work for Everyone The panel debated the merit of new technological approaches compared to the old school gallery system By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 14, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Keep Calm and Carry Cash This week, Frieze London in a flash, Paris+ on the horizon, Lucian Freud up for reappraisal, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Oct 14, 2022
Wet Paint A Glamorous Night Out in London With Hannah Traore, the Skinny on LVMH and Gagosian, and More Juicy Art World Gossip Plus, which disgraced art dealer was absent from Frieze London? And who is hiring a combination gallery assistant-babysitter? By Annie Armstrong, Oct 14, 2022
The Art Detective Revealed: The Top Consignors to This Week’s London Auctions, Including a Whitney Trustee and Tech CEO Here's who's selling what. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 14, 2022
Art Fairs We Surveyed the 1-54 Fair for 5 Key Works at Every Price Point, Starting at $800 From a $330,000, 90-piece assemblage to $800 works on paper that explore the female body, the contemporary African art fair offers works of art to suit a variety of pocketbooks. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Oct 13, 2022
Auctions A French Auction House Fired the Employee Responsible for Pricing a $7.5 Million Qianlong Vase at Just $1,900 The specialist believes the vase is a copy. By Dorian Batycka, Oct 13, 2022
Auctions Casual Vibes and an Absence of Fireworks Marked Christie’s $82.2 Million Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in London David Hockney’s muted landscape fetched the highest price of the night. By Naomi Rea, Oct 13, 2022
Art Fairs Has the Figuration Bubble Burst? Abstract Painting Dominates the Booths at Frieze London "People are a bit fed up—they want more freedom to interpret as they wish," one dealer said. By Julia Halperin, Oct 13, 2022
Wet Paint Wet Paint in the Wild: Sebastian Gladstone Shows Off His New Gallery and Bops Around L.A. With His Dog Mustard A week in the life, featuring the bar from Swingers, a brand new gallery, and a dog named Mustard. By Annie Armstrong, Oct 13, 2022
Art Fairs In Times of Uncertainty, Younger Collectors Turn to Time-Tested Works of Modern and Classical Art at Frieze Masters Among the VIP opening crowd was the 43-year-old Mando-Pop king and avid art collector, Jay Chou, who traveled to London from Taiwan with his entourage. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 12, 2022