Auctions One Year After a DAO Tried and Failed to Buy a Copy of the Constitution, a Second One Will Try Its Luck at Sotheby’s UnumDAO has formed to acquire another first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 8, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Smashed Its Design Sale Record With an Eye-Popping $77 Million Lalanne Auction Most lots sold well above their high estimates, with 18 lots selling for more than $1 million. By Lisa Ferber, Dec 8, 2022
Innovators List The Innovators: Avant Arte Founder Christian Luiten on How He Built an Art-Collecting Audience of Millions "Our goal is to bring great art to as big an audience as possible," Luiten says. By Hili Perlson, Dec 8, 2022
Artnet News Pro Hot Lots: 5 Female Artists Art Buyers Adored at Hong Kong’s Autumn Day Sales Works by emerging women artists from Asia and the west achieved auction prices well above the presale estimates. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 7, 2022
Auctions A Mint-Condition Copy of the 1981 ‘Rolling Stone’ Issue Featuring That Iconic John Lennon and Yoko Ono Cover Goes Up for Auction Annie Leibovitz snapped the image just hours before the tragedy outside Manhattan's Dakota building in 1980. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 7, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s $35 Million Auction of Ron Perelman’s Art Deco and Modernist Design Collection Shatters Expectations The vast majority of the 117 lots sold for two-thirds above their high estimates. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 7, 2022
Auctions New York City Auction Houses Are Offering Tiffany, Lalanne, and Other Delights in Their Winter Interior Design Sales Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams give you good reason to redecorate this month. By Lisa Ferber, Dec 7, 2022
Galleries Gerhard Richter Says Auf Wiedersehen to Marian Goodman, His Dealer of Nearly Four Decades, to Join David Zwirner The German artist had been with Marian Goodman Gallery for 37 years. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 7, 2022
The Gray Market Why the Crypto Winter Could Actually Be a Good Thing for Digital Art Our columnist analyzes two new nonprofit digital projects to try and chart a path out of tech's boom-and-bust cycle. By Tim Schneider, Dec 7, 2022
NFTs ‘I Could Go Full Throttle for Decades’: How Generative Art Sensation Tyler Hobbs Is Defying a Shrinking NFT Market The digital artist was a breakout talent amid NFT mania and will test his luck next year in the traditional art market with an exhibition at Pace Gallery. By Zachary Small, Dec 6, 2022
Artnet News Pro Stars in the Making? Here Are 7 Breakout Artists to Watch From Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 and the Surrounding Fairs We scoured the aisles of Art Basel, Untitled Art, and Art Miami to bring you a list of artists who are going places. By Artnet News, Dec 6, 2022
Auctions Marie Antoinette’s ‘Trianon Guitar,’ Which She Gifted to a Musical Member of Her Entourage, Is Up for Auction The guitar is estimated to fetch between €60,000 and €80,000 at Aguttes auction house in France. By Devorah Lauter, Dec 5, 2022
Galleries Galerie56, a New Space at 56 Leonard Street in New York, Opens Its Second Cross-Cultural Exhibition The exhibition features works by sculptor Isamu Noguchi juxtaposed with objects by architect Charlotte Perriand. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 5, 2022
Art Fairs Sunglass Idiots! Slipper Thieves! Lawsuits! Kenny Schachter Braved the Existential Vortex of Art Basel Miami Beach to Get the Goods Our intrepid columnist visited the marquee Miami fair—or was it actually Burning Man? By Kenny Schachter, Dec 5, 2022
NFTs The Duchess of York Will Launch a Web3 Gallery Offering an Eclectic Range of ‘Cinematic Fine Art’ The Duchess Gallery was created in partnership with Nifty Gateway. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 5, 2022