Market The Auction Market Is on Fire, But Fairs Are Still Flailing: 7 Takeaways From the 2022 Art Basel Market Report Also, NFTs are definitely a thing. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 29, 2022
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Hannah Gottlieb-Graham on Trading PR Services for Art to Build Her Budding Collection Gottlieb-Graham tested the waters by buying a Bruce Davidson photograph at Magnum's annual print sale. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 28, 2022
NFTs Police Arrest Two 20-Year-Olds for Allegedly Conning Collectors Out of $1 Million—With Ice Cream-Themed NFT Artworks The pair sold NFTs for 8,888 ice cream scoop characters called Frosties—and then disappeared. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 28, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Hurriedly Withdraws Two Lots From an Upcoming Antiquities Sale That May Have Been Looted The objects were dropped from the sale after an archaeologist pointed out their ties to two dealers linked to the illicit trade. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Auctions An Unassuming Chardin Strawberry Painting Fetches a Record-Shattering $26.8 Million at Auction, Shocking Market-Watchers The luminous 18th-century still life is the only known instance in which he painted strawberries. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Galleries Upper East Side Mainstay Venus Over Manhattan Will Open a New Downtown Location With a Focus on Young Artists The new space marks the gallery's 10th anniversary and opens with a show by Ana Benaroya. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Art Fairs Japan Is Trying to Lure a World-Class Art Fair to Tokyo With Tax Incentives and a Big Open Art Space. Will the Gamble Pay Off? Japanese authorities and some eager dealers believe the country's art market could rebound to its former high status. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 24, 2022
Art Fairs ‘Art Basel Paris Was Not Going to Work’: To Satisfy Its French Hosts, Art Basel’s New Fair Will Be Known as Paris+, by Art Basel Clément Delépine will head the fair, and Jennifer Flay, formerly head of FIAC, will head its advisory board in 2023. By Kate Brown, Mar 24, 2022
Auctions How Much for an Invisible Artwork? Sotheby’s Is Betting It Can Get a Half Million Dollars for a Sales Receipt by Yves Klein Klein sold a number of such works between 1959 and 1962 in return for a weight of pure gold. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 22, 2022
Auctions Bonhams Adds Danish Auctioneer Bruun Rasmussen to Its Rapidly Expanding Network, Its Third Acquisition in as Many Months The London-based auctioneer is looking to strengthen its position as a global player in the market. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 22, 2022
Auctions An Andy Warhol ‘Marilyn’, Estimated to Fetch $200 Million, Could Become the Most Expensive Work of Art Ever Sold at Auction The painting will be sold at Christie's in May to benefit the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation. By Katya Kazakina, Mar 21, 2022
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Jéssica Cinel on Running a São Paulo Museum by Day and Building Her Own Collection of Brazilian Art by Night From her home in São Paulo, the collector told us about the installation that's way too big for her flat, and what's on her wish list. By Naomi Rea, Mar 21, 2022
Art Collectors A Cheesemaker’s Unbelievable Collection of 120,000 Artworks and Pieces of Ephemera Will Be Sold to the Spanish State The deal has been approved by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, although the price tag has yet to be set. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 18, 2022
NFTs What’s the Future of Art in the Metaverse? Two Leading Voices in the Emerging Crypto-Art Field Lay Out Their Visions Sydney Xiong is with the APENFT Foundation, while Ben Nolan is founder of Cryptovoxels, an art-focused online universe. By Artnet NFT in Partnership With APENFT Foundation, Mar 17, 2022
Auctions Led by a Prized Francis Picabia, Sotheby’s First-Ever Surrealist Sale in Paris Nets $36 Million The event included 23 lots and was highlighted by a 1929 Picabia picture that sold for $10.9 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 17, 2022
