People What I Buy and Why: Wendy Goldsmith on Her Obsession With Francesca Woodman, and How She Turned a Fantasy of Collecting Into Reality The art advisor opens up about the young talents on her radar and the museum masterpiece she covets most. By Naomi Rea, Mar 29, 2021
Market What Lockdown? While You Were at Home, These Art Dealers Where Quietly Crisscrossing the US to Get an Edge on the Competition Some art dealers had to make trips to keep their businesses afloat during the pandemic. By Nate Freeman, Mar 29, 2021
Opinion The Gray Market: How Deep-Pocketed Crypto-Collectors Are Rushing Into an Old Art-Market Trap (and Other Insights) Our columnist sees eerie parallels between the art spending of today’s crypto-wealthy buyers and an ill-fated group in the late 1980s. By Tim Schneider, Mar 29, 2021
Exhibitions Painter Amy Sherald’s Bravura New Show in Los Angeles Demands Patient Looking and Quiet Contemplation—See Images Here The artist's show presents five works made over the course of the past year. By Artnet News, Mar 26, 2021
Art Fairs Here’s What Sold at Art Basel’s Semi-Exclusive ‘Pioneers’ Online Viewing Room, Which Included Only 100 Dealers Sales were solid and ranged up to six figures, exhibitors report. By Kate Brown & Eileen Kinsella, Mar 26, 2021
Art World From a Gallery’s Removal of the Sackler Name to the Sale of the World’s Largest Painting: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news, fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
Art World The Market Is Coming for Museums’ Art, and 7 Other Takeaways From a Hot-Button Conference on Deaccessioning Museums have jumped to take advantage of relaxed deaccessioning rules during the pandemic. By Brian Boucher, Mar 26, 2021
Auctions A Medici-Themed Basquiat Painting Could Sell for $50 Million at Sotheby’s to Become One of the Priciest Works by the Artist Ever 'Versus Medici' hails from 1982, the most sought-after era of the artist's production. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Rakes in $176 Million in a Global, Five-Hour Franken-Sale Led by Edvard Munch’s $22 Million Beach Landscape Vincent van Gogh’s Scène de rue à Montmartre sold for $15.2 million after appearing twice during the sale. By Nate Freeman, Mar 26, 2021
Art World Archaeologists Have Discovered a 3,200-Year-Old Mural of a Knife-Wielding Spider God in Peru The mural is believed to be the work of the ancient Cupisnique culture. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 26, 2021
Art World Art Industry News: An NFT Artwork Made by a Celebrity Android Sold for $688,888, Finally Making Humans Irrelevant + Other Stories Plus, Ja Rule also made some money off an NFT and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing is the new face of the £50 note. By Artnet News, Mar 26, 2021
Art World Wet Paint: MoMA Board Members Vie for Leon Black’s Spot, the Untold Story of Santiago Sierra’s Blood Flag, & More Art-World Gossip What L.A. gallery show did Michelle Obama grace with her presence? Which artist shot Hailey Bieber for Pop magazine? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, Mar 26, 2021
The Art Angle The Art Angle Podcast: How NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It Art business editor Tim Schneider helps us figure out WTF an NFT is. By Artnet News, Mar 26, 2021
Op-Ed Thoughtful Deaccessioning Is Part of Any Art Museum’s Mission. But the Lax Rules We Have Now Will Haunt Us Later As large institutions move to sell works from their collections, they tacitly authorize smaller ones to do the same. By Erik H. Neil, Mar 26, 2021
Art World The Ghent Altarpiece, Which Has Been Stolen a Dozen Times, Is Now Protected in a $35 Million Bulletproof Display The painting now hangs in a state-of-the-art, climate-controlled case with bullet-proof glass. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 25, 2021
