The Gray Market Auctioneers Are Gatecrashing the Primary Market. But That Might Not Be a Terrible Thing Our columnist wades into the controversy over auctioneers' primary-market sales series to see who's really gone too deep. By Tim Schneider, Sep 21, 2022
The Gray Market Two Buzzy Hybrid Projects Have a Lot to Teach Us About the Uneasy Merger Between Crypto and Physical Art Our columnist weighs in on what recent events in New York suggest about the total convergence of tangible and tokenized art. By Tim Schneider, Sep 14, 2022
The Gray Market Everything the Art Industry Needs to Know About the Major Change Coming to the Ethereum Blockchain (and Other Insights) Our columnist unspools how Ethereum’s upcoming technical evolutions will impact artists and the art business across sectors. By Tim Schneider, Aug 31, 2022
The Gray Market How a Scandal in the Record-Collecting Industry Illuminates Why the Art Trade Is So Often Backward-Looking (and Other Insights) Our columnist excavates an evergreen lesson for the art world from an "existential crisis" in the market for high-end vinyl. By Tim Schneider, Aug 10, 2022
The Gray Market The Art Industry Is Sabotaging Itself With Faulty Data. Here Are 4 Information Blind Spots Worth Correcting (and Other Insights) Our columnist shows the flaws in the art business's constant growth agenda, and where else alternative data could rescue the trade. By Tim Schneider, Aug 3, 2022
The Gray Market Why Artists and Curators Are Essential to Building a Metaverse That Will Do More Than Make Mark Zuckerberg Rich (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains the folly of letting better headsets and other products determine when we're officially living rich virtual lives. By Tim Schneider, Jul 27, 2022
The Gray Market DALL-E’s Astonishing Images Mask That Art Is Just Another Pawn in Silicon Valley’s Endgame (and Other Insights) Our columnist unravels how DALL-E and other A.I.-driven content generators fit into Big Tech’s grand business plan. By Tim Schneider, Jul 20, 2022
The Gray Market Why Better Artist Resale Royalties Are an Opportunity for Better Business in the Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains why it hurts almost all market players to portray resale royalties as a zero-sum game. By Tim Schneider, Jul 13, 2022
The Gray Market Corporations Are Writing the Rules of the Metaverse as We Speak. If the Art World Wants a Say, It Needs to Hurry Up (and Other Insights) Our columnist unmasks the risks to culture hidden in the dominant vision of the metaverse now being sold to the public. By Tim Schneider, Jul 6, 2022
The Gray Market How Former G.E. CEO Jack Welch Altered the Art Market for Better and for Worse (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines the impact of a ruthless corporate titan on the modern economy, wealth distribution, and the business of art. By Tim Schneider, Jun 29, 2022
The Gray Market In Finance, Asset Bubbles Burst Without Warning. It Turns Out the Ultra-Contemporary Art Market Is Even Harder to Predict Our columnist dives into the curious economics of asset bubbles to find that even Nobel Prize winners can't pin down the basics. By Tim Schneider, Jun 1, 2022
The Gray Market Why Auction Houses Might Keep One Foot Off the Crypto Bandwagon After a Volatile Year (and Other Insights) Buyers take on more risk with crypto payments than auction houses do. By Tim Schneider, May 25, 2022
The Gray Market What the End of the iPod Reveals About the Art Industry’s Stodgy Market Model (and Other Insights) Our columnist cycles through the iPod's history for lessons on why music and art have taken different routes in a digital era. By Tim Schneider, May 18, 2022
The Gray Market Why (and How) Global Economic Chaos Will Hit the Art Market in Ways You Might Not Expect (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines how multiple asset markets in free fall might impact an art market fixated on its own business. By Tim Schneider, May 11, 2022
The Gray Market How Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Explains Why the Art Market Will Always Cater to a Handful of Elites (and Other Insights) Our columnist parses how the new business of meme stocks butts up against time-honored fundamentals of art-market success. By Tim Schneider, May 4, 2022