The Art Detective The Lockdown Made Collectors Even Hungrier for Paintings of the Human Form. Is Figuration Fatigue Coming Next? After a year of looking at art on cell-phone screens, advisors and dealers are hoping collectors will broaden their interests. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 15, 2021
The Art Detective Why the Biggest Blue-Chip Art Collectors in the World Are Suddenly Pumping Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Into Baseball Cards Baseball, basketball, and hockey cards are now fetching as much as works by Alexander Calder and George Condo. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 7, 2021
The Art Detective ‘There’s Much Less Order Than Ever Before’: Auction Houses Are Entering the Post-Lockdown Era—But They’ll Never Be the Same Market share is shifting from West to East and an evening sale doesn't mean what it used to. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 30, 2021
The Art Detective What Is the World’s Top Mega-Gallery? We Crunched the Numbers—and No, It’s Not the One You Think We examined the size of galleries' rosters, their combined square footage, and more to determine who emerged from the pandemic on top. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 9, 2021
The Art Detective Marlborough Reborn? How New York’s Most Troubled Art Gallery May Be Clawing Its Way Out of the Grave Infighting nearly brought the gallery to the brink of extinction. But now, a new C.E.O. may breathe life back into the legendary gallery. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 2, 2021
The Art Detective Out of Fashion Her Whole Life, Alice Neel’s Figurative Art Is Now a Sensation. But Where Is Her Market—and Who Are Her Buyers—Today? One dealer recalls an artist finding two Alice Neel works on the sidewalk in the days when few cared for her art. By Katya Kazakina, May 26, 2021
The Art Detective The Dawn of the ‘Art Bros’: How Keyed-In Gen Z Investors Are Moving the Markets for Emerging Artists From Their Laptops Against the backdrop of a democratization of the financial world, a new, profit-hungry generation of buyers is betting on art. By Katya Kazakina, May 19, 2021
The Art Detective Revealed: The Biggest Consignors to This Week’s Spring Auctions, From a Blue-Chip Artist to a Financier Offloading 19 Works We bring you the inside scoop on who is selling what. By Katya Kazakina, May 12, 2021
The Art Detective Inside the Pandemic-Era Divorce Boom—and the Windfall It’s Creating for the Art Market Divorce attorneys recall how some clients have used art to 'torture' one another. By Katya Kazakina, May 5, 2021
