The Gray Market Why Should Artists Care About the Writers’ Strike? Because They Work Under the Same Global Pressures Our columnist unearths the hidden parallels between the Writers Guild of America’s walkout and the average artist’s plight. By Tim Schneider, May 10, 2023
The Gray Market Is an Art Market Correction Imminent, or Is the Worst Already Over? Experts Are Split Heading Into Spring Sales Season Our columnist checks the climate ahead of May's major sales events and finds that fears of a market correction are evergreen. By Tim Schneider, May 3, 2023
The Gray Market What an ‘A.I.-Generated’ Pop Hit Reveals About the Value of Mystique in the Age of A.I. Art Our columnist uses a viral A.I. Drake song to argue that, in algorithmic art, sometimes the mystery is the point. By Tim Schneider, Apr 26, 2023
The Gray Market Bye-Bye, Benefit Auctions? Why Major Galleries and Nonprofits Are Taking a New Approach to Charitable Giving Our columnist unpacks recent efforts to fundraise for good causes without the involvement of auction platforms. By Tim Schneider, Apr 19, 2023
The Gray Market Donald Trump Is Leading the News Again. Get Ready to See Him All Over the Art World Again, Too Our columnist fears that what's powering Trump back to the top of the news cycle will also power his image back into the art market. By Tim Schneider, Apr 12, 2023
The Gray Market Don’t Believe the ‘Resistance-Is-Futile’ Hype When It Comes to A.I. and Art Our columnist looks at how a recent, precedent-setting legal case might lead us to rethink narratives about tech's world-devouring promises. By Tim Schneider, Apr 5, 2023
The Gray Market How an Upstart Magazine Grew Into One of This Century’s Best Talent-Spotting Galleries Our columnist unwinds the tale of Loyal, the connoisseurial culture magazine that transformed into a tastemaking Swedish gallery. By Tim Schneider, Mar 29, 2023
The Gray Market Here’s Who Financial Turmoil Is Likely to Hit Hardest in the Art Industry—and the Unlikely Type of Business It May Accelerate Our columnist wargames out how turmoil at global banks translates to both good and bad news for art-market lending and borrowing. By Tim Schneider, Mar 22, 2023
The Gray Market Progress Helped Destroy Silicon Valley Bank. Stasis Should Shield the Art Market Our columnist explains why the death of Silicon Valley Bank makes the art market's traditionalism look wise for once. By Tim Schneider, Mar 15, 2023
The Gray Market New York’s New Art Map: What 9 Years of Data About Gallery Openings Reveal About the Shifting Geography of Cool Which neighborhoods are rising—and which have dramatically fallen from grace (with charts!). By Tim Schneider, Mar 8, 2023
The Gray Market The Virality of That Broken Jeff Koons Sculpture Says a Lot About Art’s Place in the Mainstream Our columnist picks up the pieces of why a smashed Jeff Koons edition worth $42,000 became one of the biggest stories anywhere. By Tim Schneider, Mar 1, 2023
The Gray Market Despite a Crypto Crash, Art’s Most Powerful Players Have Decided That NFTs Are Not a Fad and Are Very Cool Actually Our columnist unpacks the disconnect between crypto's ghastly mainstream profile and its resilience in the art establishment. By Tim Schneider, Feb 15, 2023
The Gray Market The Traditional Borders of Taste Have Melted Down. The Way We Talk About the Art Market Is Still Catching Up Lessons about presenting, marketing, and selling art from an expansive show of 'Drawing by Sculptors' at Helena Anrather gallery. By Tim Schneider, Feb 8, 2023
The Gray Market U.S. Lawmakers Are Suckers for Star Power. That’s a Big Obstacle to Reining in A.I. Image Generators Our columnist contrasts the U.S. Senate's vigorous defense of Taylor Swift fans to the silence around visual artists' rights in the A.I. era. By Tim Schneider, Feb 1, 2023
The Gray Market ChatGPT May Well Rewrite the Rules of the Art World. But Art Also Shows Us the Limits of What A.I. Can Do Our columnist digs into the art-industry impacts of ChatGPT, the A.I.-powered chatbot sparking crises across multiple walks of life. By Tim Schneider, Jan 25, 2023
