Auctions The Rapper Skepta Is Helping Curate an Upcoming Sotheby’s Sale in London—and He’s Including His First-Ever Painting The British-Nigerian grime star has chosen a group of 8 to 12 paintings to include in the auction house’s Contemporary Curated sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 1, 2022
Wet Paint Wet Paint in the Wild: Rapper and Curator Vic Mensa Hits the Studio With Thundercat and Hangs Out at His Kavi Gupta Group Show The rapper had his curatorial debut, "SKIN + MASKS", in Chicago this summer. By Annie Armstrong, Aug 31, 2022
NFTs OpenSea, One of the Top NFT Platforms, Has Seen Trading Volume Fall by More Than 90 Percent Since January A representative for OpenSea said the method of measurement was not accurate—but by any measure, sales are down. By Vittoria Benzine, Aug 31, 2022
Auctions 10 Rare Pennies Just Sold for $1.1 Million at a California Auction, With the Rarest of All Fetching $365,000 It's a lot of money to pay for pennies. By Dorian Batycka, Aug 31, 2022
Market A New Exhibition in Hong Kong Aims to Boost the Market for Female Abstract Expressionists—the Ones You Know and the Ones You Don’t Art Intelligence Global is inaugurating its Hong Kong exhibition space with a showcase of five Ab-Ex artists. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 31, 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 30, 2022
NFTs Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform Their New Single in a Yuga Labs Metaverse During MTV’s Video Music Awards The rappers performed their new song “From the D to the LBC” in Yuga Labs’s upcoming metaverse environment, the “Otherside.” By Dorian Batycka, Aug 30, 2022
Artnet News Pro Young, Green Collectors Are Driving the Art Market Explosion in South Korea. But Could a Growing Interest in Speculative Buying Be a Slippery Slope? "It’s not just rich people who are collecting art," said one expert. By Vivienne Chow, Aug 29, 2022
Art Fairs Can the Art-o-Rama Fair Turn the Seaside City of Marseilles Into an Art-Market Destination? This year's edition of the fair included 62 exhibitors. By Anna Sansom, Aug 29, 2022
Auctions A Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Just Fetched $12.6 Million at Auction—Setting a Record for the Most Expensive Piece of Sports Memorabilia Ever Sold Lifelong Yankees fan Anthony Giordano bought the card in 1991 for $50,000. By Vittoria Benzine, Aug 29, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s First Live Sale in Singapore in 15 Years Delivers $18 Million, Bolstering the City’s Position as an Emerging Market Hub The sale also featured the auction debut of 25-year-old Raghav Babbar, whose painting sold for more than 11 times the top estimate. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 29, 2022
NFTs Hong Kong Mega-Collector Adrian Cheng Has Come Out as the Mystery Backer of the Popular Azuki NFTs The collector says he will take a more active role in the collection going forward. By Dorian Batycka, Aug 29, 2022
Artnet News Pro It’s Boom Time for Seoul’s Flourishing Art Market. Here Is Why the Art-Market Gold Rush in South Korea Is Here to Stay It is unnecessary to see Seoul, Hong Kong, and other Asian cities as a “rivalry or a zero-sum game,” according to an expert. By Vivienne Chow, Aug 28, 2022
Auctions The Eclectic Collection of the Late Joseph Hotung, a Member of One of Hong Kong’s Most Prominent Families, Could Fetch $50 Million at Sotheby’s The collection ranges from Chinese antiquities to Impressionist masterpieces By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 28, 2022
The Art Detective Musicians and Movie Stars Have Had Managers Forever. Now, It’s Becoming Big Business to Manage Artists, Too Longtime art advisors say that managing artists has become the fastest-growing segment of their business. By Katya Kazakina, Aug 26, 2022