The Back Room The Back Room: Private Parties This week, Perrotin's private equity partnership, Jordan Wolfson's lonely view of success, where private museums proliferate, and much more. By Artnet News, Jun 23, 2023
Galleries Market Star Painter Flora Yukhnovich, Known for Her Contemporary Take on French Rococo, Joins Mega Gallery Hauser and Wirth The artist graduated art school in 2017, and was making seven-figure sales at auction within four years. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 23, 2023
Art & Tech Yale’s Vast Collection of Millions of Artworks and Objects Is Now Searchable Online. Here Are 7 of the University’s Greatest Treasures Lux allows users to search across 17 million objects from the Yale University Art Gallery to the Yale Center for British Art. By Min Chen, Jun 21, 2023
Law & Politics Beeple Collector Metakovan Is Suing Twobadour, Claiming His Ex-Partner Is Falsely Taking Credit for Buying the $69 Million NFT At one time, Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran claimed to have bought the NFT together. By Richard Whiddington, Jun 20, 2023
Art Fairs 10 of the Best Artworks at Art Basel 2023, From New Provocations by Anne Imhof to a Bravura $22 Million de Kooning These are the booths that caught the eye of Artnet News's editor-in-chief. By Andrew Goldstein, Jun 15, 2023
Artnet News Pro At Art Basel, Asian Collectors Are Back in Force, While Galleries Nudge Asian Artists Into the Spotlight Asian collectors are a bit cautious, despite their enthusiastic return to the Swiss fair. By Vivienne Chow, Jun 14, 2023
The Art Detective Market Reset or Not, Art Basel Still Dazzles: Top Trophies Range From a $60 Million ‘Mellon’ Rothko to $22.5 Million Bronze Spider Several artworks are being offered at a significant markup over prices they commanded just recently, while others are coming to the fair at a steep discount. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 9, 2023
Art World Collector Gerald Fineberg’s Art Just Sold for $197 Million at Auction. His Estate Has Listed Two Luxury Apartments for $70 Million, Too Perhaps the late scion's real estate, located in Boston and West Palm Beach, will fare better than his art collection did. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 6, 2023
What I Buy and Why Former Ballet Dancer Clara Xing on Her Eclectic Tastes in Collecting, From Ancient Chinese Artifacts to Contemporary Works Some of her collection is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. By Cathy Fan, Jun 5, 2023
The Back Room The Back Room: The Fineberg Flop This week, a postmortem of spring's most pivotal (and disappointing) sale, a buzzy new project space on Henry Street, and much more. By Artnet News, Jun 2, 2023
Opinion Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince’ Is Actually Bad, and the Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith Decision Is Actually Good We need to reboot the arguments we make about appropriation art. By Ben Davis, Jun 1, 2023
The Art Detective What Went Wrong With Christie’s Fineberg Sale, the Auction That Nearly Drove the Art Market to Despair? Plenty. At first, people were stunned to see art by major names selling for a pittance. Then they got excited. By Katya Kazakina, May 26, 2023
Politics Internet Netizens Accuse Renowned Chinese Artist Yue Minjun of Insulting the Country and Army with His Iconic ‘Laughing Man’ Paintings The artist's longstanding series has captured the attention of nationalists online. By Vivienne Chow, May 26, 2023
Valuations Fashionphile and Art Collector Lisa Perry Covets Vintage YSL While Carving Out Space for Women Artists and Her Granddaughters We asked the founder of East Hampton's Onna House about the things she values most—in art and in life. By Katie White, May 25, 2023
Archaeology & History Prehistoric Real Estate for Sale: Kents Cavern, Home to Stone Age Societies and Muse to Agatha Christie, Is Now Available for $3.1 Million The popular attraction has been privately owned by the Powe family for the past 120 years. By Vittoria Benzine, May 24, 2023