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
Auctions An Extraordinary Bejewelled Crucifix Worn by Princess Diana Will Lead Sotheby’s ‘Royal and Noble’ Sale in London The piece is expected to fetch as much as $144,000 in Sotheby's annual sale of items with aristocratic provenances. By Lisa Ferber, Jan 4, 2023
Auctions This Creepy 17th-Century Baby Portrait Was Found in the Home of an ‘Eccentric’ English Farmer. It May Fetch $24,000 at Auction For years the painting hung on the back of a door that was always open. See it and you’ll understand why. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 3, 2023
Artnet News Pro Patti Wong, the Retiring Sotheby’s Rainmaker Who Made Hong Kong an Auction Mecca, Reflects on Asia’s Rise as a Market Powerhouse In this exclusive interview with Patti Wong, the 30-year auction house veteran charts the rise of Asia and discusses how Hong Kong became an auction hub. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 3, 2023
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works Sold at Auction in 2022—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did From a $195 million Warhol to an $80 million Magritte, the 10 top lots sold at auction this year totaled more than $1.1 billion. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 28, 2022
Market Artnet News Pro Is a Necessary Tool for Navigating the Art Market. Here Are 11 of Our Favorite Agenda-Setting Stories From 2022 Here's a taster of the analyst-caliber information you get with an Artnet News Pro subscription. By Artnet News, Dec 27, 2022
Artnet News Pro These Are the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in 2022 Lauren Quin, Albert Willem, and Rachel Jones are newcomers to the Artnet Price Database as their careers skyrocket. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 26, 2022
Artnet News Pro The Art Market at a Glance: 6 Charts That Map the Biggest Changes in the Industry in 2022 The art market took a wild ride this year—here are some of the biggest changes we charted through the data. By Artnet News, Dec 25, 2022
Wet Paint Wet Paint In the Wild: Dimes Square Rapper Blaketheman1000 Moves to Bushwick, Jet Skis at Art Basel Miami Beach, and Performs in Philadelphia The Dimes Square rapper takes us through a week in his life. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 22, 2022
Auctions The Wicked Witch’s Hourglass From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Was the Top Lot at an $8 Million Auction of Movie Memorabilia The sale also included the Holy Grail from 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' By Sarah Cascone, Dec 22, 2022
NFTs NFT Marketplace OpenSea Has Blocked Cuban Artists and Collectors From Its Platform, Citing U.S. Sanctions Law To date, more than 30 Cuban creators have had their OpenSea accounts delisted. By Richard Whiddington, Dec 22, 2022
Wet Paint A 26-Year-Old Artist Named Cumwizard69420 Gets a Show at Cheim and Read, a Trendy Tribeca Gallery Is Unamicably Splitting, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, where is O'Flaherty's new space setting up? And which sandwich boy-turned-art dealer is getting trolled on Twitter? By Annie Armstrong, Dec 22, 2022
Innovators List The Innovators: Curator Tina Rivers Ryan on Getting Over Her NFT Skepticism and What’s Next for Blockchain Art "NFTs have not fully solved problems in the art world, though they can represent a step in the right direction," Ryan says. By Zachary Small, Dec 21, 2022
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 20, 2022
Auctions Giddy-Up! Wrangler Is Auctioning a Diamond-Studded Belt Buckle to Spur Preservation of the ‘Great American Cowboy’ The diamond-encrusted hunk of gold and silver is valued at $40,000. Bidding ends December 30. By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 20, 2022
