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
The Gray Market Here’s What the Alarming Cancellation of Masterpiece London Does (And Does Not) Mean for the Art Business in 2023 As the art calendar kicks off, our columnist explains what to expect in a year full of uncertainty. By Tim Schneider, Jan 18, 2023
The Gray Market Government Regulators Are Zeroing in on the Metaverse. Digital Art Could Get Caught in the Middle Our columnist explains why art could be forced to contend with more regulatory headaches in the metaverse than anywhere else before. By Tim Schneider, Jan 11, 2023
The Gray Market 8 Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2023 (Including an Art-Fair Death Foretold) Our columnist mans the fortune teller's booth again to try to envision what awaits the art world in the year ahead. By Tim Schneider, Jan 4, 2023
The Gray Market Artnet Newstradamus Tim Schneider Grades His 10 Highly Specific Art-World Predictions for 2022 Our columnist passes judgment on the predictions he made at the start of 2022 to see where he got it right and where he missed the mark. By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 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 14, 2022
The Gray Market Why the Crypto Winter Could Actually Be a Good Thing for Digital Art Our columnist analyzes two new nonprofit digital projects to try and chart a path out of tech's boom-and-bust cycle. By Tim Schneider, Dec 7, 2022
The Gray Market What the Colossal Failure of FTX Means for Art Basel’s Efforts to Thrust the Art Industry Into Its Crypto Era The fair is inaugurating its new blockchain-based platform Arcual while recently bankrupted FTX plunges crypto into infamy. What's the way forward? By Tim Schneider, Dec 1, 2022
The Gray Market What the Gagosian-LVMH Rumor—and the Art World’s Obsession With It—Tells Us About the Future of the Industry Our columnist reassesses the hottest art-world rumor of 2022 to show that merging luxury retail with mega-galleries is harder than it looks. By Tim Schneider, Nov 16, 2022
The Gray Market What the Rising Tide of Art Vandalism Tells Us About Where We Are Headed as a Culture Our columnist connects the targeting of artworks in museums, on television, and in the art market to the troubling trajectory of culture at large. By Tim Schneider, Nov 9, 2022
The Gray Market How the Art and Music Industries Have Begun to Value Young Talent Differently—and Why It Matters Our columnist investigates why fine art and pop music seem to have been taking opposite approaches to new talent since 2019. By Tim Schneider, Nov 2, 2022
The Gray Market What Galleries Can Learn About Poaching Artists From Soccer Star Neymar’s Transfer Deal Gone Wrong Our columnist kicks up art-market lessons from the curious case of soccer superstar Neymar's fraud and corruption trial. By Tim Schneider, Oct 26, 2022
The Gray Market How to Avoid the Worst Traps of the A.I.-Assisted Artwork Debate Our columnist consults with two visionary artists on the hottest topic in art and tech: what is the future of A.I.-assisted artwork? By Tim Schneider, Oct 19, 2022
The Gray Market Why Artists Getting Involved With Shared Virtual Worlds May Do Well to Look Beyond the Zuckerverse Our columnist combs through reams of recent press on Meta to chart the struggles and dangers of its shared virtual world to art and culture. By Tim Schneider, Oct 12, 2022
