Galleries Hauser and Wirth’s Foray Into Auction Territory Exceeds Expectations, Raising More Than $4 Million for Charity All of the proceeds will benefit the UN's refugee relief programs. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2022
The Gray Market How Random International, Maker of the Immersive Sensation ‘Rain Room,’ Is Bringing the Experiential Art Business Into the 21st Century The 'Living Room' appears 10 years after Random International's breakout 'Rain Room'. By Tim Schneider, Dec 13, 2022
Artnet News Pro London’s $56 Million Old Master Evening Sales Suggest That Experiments to Reinvent the Category May Be Paying Off Amid dwindling interest and low supply of top masterpieces, the efforts to expand the category's typical offerings are beginning to bear fruit. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 12, 2022
Auctions Possibly the Oldest Pair of Levi’s Jeans, Salvaged From an 1857 Shipwreck, Just Auctioned for a Deep-Pocketed $114,000 What may be the earliest known Levi Strauss pants went for double their estimate at auction. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 12, 2022
Innovators List The Innovators: Lucas Museum Director Sandra Jackson-Dumont on Why Art Institutions Need to Lean Into Tough Conversations (and FOMO) to Stay Relevant Jackson-Dumont discusses visual storytelling, making museums into social spaces, and her personal journey into art. By Janelle Zara, Dec 11, 2022
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Works Sold at Auction Around the World in November 2022 The vast majority of the most expensive artworks sold at auction in November 2022 came from Christie's sale of Paul Allen's treasure trove. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 11, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Auction of a T. Rex Skull, Expected to Fetch $20 Million, Sold for a Not-So-Kingly $6.1 Million After a marquee year for dinosaur auction sales, enthusiasm may be ebbing. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 9, 2022
Auctions Christie’s and Phillips Are Closing Their Sprawling Outposts in Southampton As recently as August 2022, the auction houses touted their lasting commitment to the enclave. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 9, 2022
Wet Paint Auction Rainmaker Loic Gouzer Quietly Pivots, Fresh Details on the Fall of Downs & Ross, and More Art-World Gossip Plus, which artist did Kim Kardashian deem "so Kourtney" at ABMB? And which crypto fraudster was spotted in Soho? Read on for answers. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 9, 2022
The Art Detective Someone Pretended to Be a Mexican Media Mogul in Order to Buy In-Demand Contemporary Art—and Almost Duped Top Dealers It's really hard to get access to the most coveted contemporary art. That's why someone posed as a top collector—and almost got away with it. By Katya Kazakina, Dec 9, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Initial Descent? This week in the Back Room: sorting through South Florida, a rookie sensation at the Rubell, a Hong Kong competition-stoker, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Dec 9, 2022
NFTs Electronic Musicians Steve Aoki and 3LAU Will Integrate Their CryptoPunks NFTs Into a New ‘Conceptual’ Supergroup The NFT enthusiasts are collaborating on 'conceptual' project inspired by their digital assets. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 9, 2022
Wet Paint Wet Paint in the Wild: Restaurateur Michael Chow Shows Off His Little-Known Painting Practice During a Whirlwind Opening Week in London The Mr. Chow restaurateur is breaking a 50-year "sabbatical" from his art career. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 8, 2022
Galleries A Genre-Defying Brooklyn Gallery Opens With an Exhibition of Masks Spanning 200 Years "B" Dry Goods was launched by a former Boston gallerist who deals in rare-books and music-ephemera. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 8, 2022
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
