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 1, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling a First Edition of the U.S. Constitution One Year After a DAO Helped Drive Another Version to $43 Million It is not yet known if the now defunct ConstitutionDAO will reform this year in an attempt to buy the historic document. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 1, 2022
Galleries The French Collective Obvious Has Become One of the First A.I. Artists to Receive Gallery Representation The trio has signed with Danysz, with a solo show planned for the gallery's Marais location in December. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 1, 2022
NFTs NFT Artist Dmitri Cherniak Is Taking Creative Cues From the Archives of László Moholy-Nagy for His New Generative Art Series The artist is unveiling a new collection of NFTs, created in partnership with the estate of the 20th-century polymath and Bauhaus instructor. By Dorian Batycka, Nov 1, 2022
Ask an Art Advisor Is It Immoral to Buy Work Directly Out of a Young Artist’s Studio? Here’s What a Trusted Art Advisor Has to Say Plus, which artists are the most recession-proof, and is splitting sales evenly with my gallery really the fair thing to do? By Wendy Goldsmith, Nov 1, 2022
Auctions A Rare Emerald That Sank With Spanish Treasures in 1622 Will Resurface on the Market for the First Time in Nearly 40 Years at Sotheby’s The gem's sale will now help fund the Ukrainian resistance. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 31, 2022
Artnet News Pro Alex Katz Was ‘Always a Bit of a Loner.’ Now, at Age 95, Collectors Won’t Leave Him—or His Spiking Market—Alone After more than eight decades of embracing flat,figurative painting, artist Alex Katz is getting the recognition he deserves. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 31, 2022
NFTs Hilma af Klint’s Famous Series of Paintings of a Spiral Temple Gets the NFT Treatment on Pharrell Williams’s Web3 Platform The NFT project offers the only way to acquire works from the series, which will never come to market. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 31, 2022
Art Fairs ‘With the Wrong Prints, Your House Could Look Like a Dentist’s Office’: Collector Ralph DeLuca on How to Make Good (Not Bad) Decisions at a Print Fair Here's what caught the noted poster collector's eye at the fair. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 28, 2022
NFTs Is Twitter’s Future Under Elon Musk Filled With NFTs? Its Latest Feature Allows Users to Buy and Sell Crypto Art Via Tweet The platform's new integration may point to where the social media company is headed. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 28, 2022
The Art Detective Paul Allen’s Collection Is the Most Expensive Ever to Come to Auction—But There’s Even More Where That Came From The late Microsoft cofounder's art collection is poised to bring in more than $1 billion—but there's at least $500 million worth leftover. By Katya Kazakina, Oct 28, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Beyond Imagination This week: A.I. upending the art-making business, a new Castelli to know, an antiquities reckoning, and much more. By Tim Schneider & Naomi Rea, Oct 28, 2022
Auctions Warhol’s $80 Million White Car Crash Painting Will Hit the Auction Block at Sotheby’s in What Is Shaping Up to Be a Historic Sale Season The work from his "Death and Disaster" series could be one of the most expensive by the Pop artist to sell at auction. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 28, 2022
Art Fairs Marc Spiegler Is Stepping Down as Global Director of Art Basel, After More Than a Decade at the Helm Noah Horowitz is returning to the company next month to the newly created role of Art Basel CEO. By Kate Brown, Oct 28, 2022
Auctions Continuing His Grand Sell-Off, Billionaire Ronald Perelman Is Offloading His French Design Collection at Sotheby’s Since 2020, billionaire Ronald Perelman has been unloading assets ranging from fine art to a private jet. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 27, 2022
