The Back Room The Back Room: Auction Action Returns to New York This week: a marquee auction overview, a big year of bounce-back on the block, another eight-figure Beeple, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Nov 12, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Choose Your Own Adventure This week: a fork in art’s relationship to NFTs, bidders back away from Christopher Wool, Barkley L. Hendricks’s sly left turn, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Nov 5, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Spooky Season Shakeups This week: execs fleeing fairs like haunted houses, who’s burning Hirst drawings?, a Picasso that won’t rest in peace, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 29, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Plot Twists and Fate Reversals This week: an alternative view of Asia’s ascent, a potential Rothko resurrection, a few surprises at FIAC, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 22, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Compare and Contrast This week: a big-picture Frieze breakdown, advisors and dealers form major new alliances, a glaring museum-tech divide, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 15, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Turn and Face the Change This week in the Back Room: the next generation of art institutions, ultra-contemporary lots outsprint the field, mega-galleries chase crypto cool, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 8, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: The Center Cannot Hold This week in the Back Room: Hong Kong’s internal struggle, dealers behaving badly, the grounding of global art travel, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Oct 1, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: A Post-American Art World? This week: Euro buying boosts Basel, the young artist with a 196-strong waitlist, the global market’s first-half rebound, and more. By Tim Schneider, Sep 24, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Things Fall Apart This week: the twilight(?) of the art-fair industrial complex, inside MOCA’s executive drama, how to raise an artist from the dead, and more. By Tim Schneider, Sep 17, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: New Steps in Old Spaces This week in the Back Room: Art Basel’s about-face, August’s unexpected auction king, Hollein holds forth, and much more By Tim Schneider, Sep 10, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Unite and Conquer This week: four blue-chip dealers join forces, live art fairs step up to the starting blocks, NFTs go Hollywood, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Sep 3, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Corporate Temptation This week: Art Basel's golden boy joins an enemy encampment, Banksy’s extraordinary auction rise, NFT scammers target the art world, and much more. By Naomi Rea, Aug 27, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Let’s Get Digital This week: A spotlight on Platform, NFTs vacuum in new clients, MISA turns online sales experimental, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Aug 20, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Waiting on the Future This week: A gut check on art-market innovation, July’s relaxed auction highs, the Macklowe collection (maybe, finally) in motion, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Aug 13, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Rocky Mountain High This week in the Back Room: Aspen’s ascent, Phillips’s private sales peak, a museum board’s reckoning, and much more By Tim Schneider, Aug 6, 2021
