Analysis With His Viral Shredding Performance, Did Banksy Just Change the Market for Performance Art Forever? Banksy's move actually has a lot to say about how the market—and the public's relationship to it—has changed in recent years. By Elizabeth Dee, Oct 8, 2018
Analysis Art Basel Cities Is the Global Fair Company’s Portal to the Future. But What the Heck Is It, Anyway? A pricey experiment by an international art-fair organizer descends on a country in crisis. Guess what? This is an upbeat story. By Andrew Goldstein, Sep 17, 2018
Analysis A Decade After Damien Hirst’s Historic ‘Beautiful Inside My Head Forever’ Auction, Resale Prices Are Looking Ugly The single-artist sale brought Hirst $201 million, but a number of those works have since lost millions for their original buyers. By Tim Schneider, Sep 12, 2018
Analysis Who Says Culture Doesn’t Pay? $9.9 Billion Was Spent on New Arts Projects Around the Globe in 2017 The Louvre Abu Dhabi was, unsurprisingly, the priciest building completed last year. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 11, 2018
Analysis Part Capitalist, Part Socialist, Estonia May Have Cracked the Code for a Thriving Art Scene. Here’s How They Did It Estonia has built something of a cultural utopia, complete with government-subsidized art-fair participation and a national artists' union. By Kate Brown, Jul 23, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Art Gallery Attendance Is the Wrong Metric to Measure (and Other Insights) Our columnist on lessons from the Chelsea Art Walk, a subsidized House for Artists, and the complications of New York's Culture Pass. By Tim Schneider, Jul 22, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Could Auction Houses Really Help Save Struggling Galleries? (and Other Insights) Our columnist follows the bread crumbs left by the rumor that Art Agency, Partners will offer gallery advisory services for a hefty fee. By Tim Schneider, Jul 15, 2018
Analysis Is Everything We Know About Gallery E-Commerce Wrong? How David Zwirner and Gagosian’s New Initiatives Break the Rules With their new online viewing rooms, the mega-galleries are challenging ideas about what can (and can't) sell online in a changing art market. By Tim Schneider, Jul 8, 2018
Analysis Women and Millennials Are the Fastest-Growing Forces in Art Collecting, a New Study Finds Nearly one third of wealthy women own art or are interested in buying it. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 26, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Art Basel Is Both a Gift and a Curse (and Other Insights) Our columnist returns from Art Basel with thoughts on the fair's Swiss exceptionalism and its meaning in the art world of 2018. By Tim Schneider, Jun 17, 2018
Analysis How Dealers Are (Slowly) Rebooting Their Businesses to Take Software-Based Art Mainstream At Art Basel 2018, there are signs the art market is finding a language to contextualize technology. By Tim Schneider, Jun 14, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why the Art Market Should Heed Warren Buffett’s Warning About ‘Short-Termism’ (and Other Insights) Our columnist warns you shouldn't read too much into a gallery's sales at Art Basel and the pressure to make the cut at a mega fair. By Tim Schneider, Jun 10, 2018
Analysis Asia Has Officially Fallen for Contemporary Art: Postwar Sales Have Doubled as Collectors Chase the Hottest Names in Hong Kong Bidders' preference for postwar art reached an all-time high in 2018. By Tim Schneider, Jun 5, 2018
Analysis The Gray Market: Why Museums Like the Victoria & Albert Might Want to Take Political Sides (and Other Insights) Our columnist on the Victoria & Albert controversy, plus surprising turns in provenance research and the market for Felix Gonzalez-Torres. By Tim Schneider, Jun 3, 2018
Analysis Field of Dreams: Why Major League Baseball Holds the Key to Solving the Midlevel Gallery Crunch Major League Baseball used collective bargaining to go from chaos and scandal to fortune and functionality. Why can't galleries? By Tim Schneider, May 31, 2018