Crime An Artist Lost Hundreds of Digital Artworks When His Laptop Was Stolen. He’s Now Offering a Reward of $1.2 Million for Its Safe Return It's a cruel irony for an artist whose work frequently focuses on money and theft. By Richard Whiddington, Apr 4, 2023
Analysis The Latest UBS Art Basel Report Puts the Global Art Market at $67.8 Billion, Indicating Modest Growth Amid Economic Uncertainty The art market, while still top-heavy, defied much of the ongoing global and economic volatility in 2022. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 3, 2023
Auctions ‘It Was Amazing to Use These Works to Tell a Story About Myself’: Adam Lindemann’s Collection Rakes in $32 Million in an Unusual Christie’s Auction Lindemann sold works by Koons, Warhol, Hirst, and more. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 10, 2023
Auctions The Final Sale of Masterworks From the Collection of Late Microsoft Founder Paul Allen Could Fetch $43 Million at Christie’s The seven works are by Georgia O'Keeffe, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 10, 2023
Politics Artists Decry an Idaho College’s ‘Alarming’ Removal of Artworks Centered on Reproductive Rights From a Group Show on Healthcare The college has cited Idaho Code Section 18-8705 as reason for removing the artworks. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 7, 2023
Art Fairs VIP Day at Frieze Los Angeles’s New Airport Venue Takes Off With Soaring Sales and Its Now-Signature Star-Studded Crowd Gwyneth Paltrow, Owen Wilson, and Billy Zane were among those perusing the busy aisles. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 17, 2023
Law & Politics The Brooklyn Gallerist Who Artist Deborah Roberts Is Suing for Copyright Infringement Has Fired Back, Calling It a Case of ‘Punching Down’ Richard Beavers has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 2, 2023
Auctions New Collectors and Museum Interest Help Drive New York’s Old Master Auctions to $150 Million—a High Not Seen in Years New auction records were set for Francisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry, among others. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 27, 2023
Auctions Who Were the Best-Selling Artists at Auction in 2022? See the Top 20 Names and Find Out What They Reveal About the Market The three highest-ranking artists each brought in over $500 million in sales last year. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 9, 2023
Art World Here Are the 9 Biggest Art-World Controversies of 2022, From Climate Activists Attacking Masterworks to A.I. Replacing Artists So much outrage. By Eileen Kinsella & Taylor Dafoe, Dec 26, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Has Brokered $6.4 Billion in Sales So Far in 2022, Down 7 Percent on Last Year’s Total Stellar single-owner collections and luxury goods help boost the bottom line. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2022
Galleries Germany Pumped More Than €30 Million of Public Money Into the Commercial Art Market During the Pandemic. Was It Actually Needed? A report questioned whether galleries like Esther Schipper and Sprüth Magers should have benefited from the government program, which was not based on need. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 16, 2022
Museums & Institutions The German Government Just Bought Back the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum From a Real Estate Company for €170 Million The state of Berlin and the federal government pitched in on purchasing the Hamburger Bahnhof and its adjacent exhibition hall. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 15, 2022
Galleries A Sprawling Software Company Has Snapped Up Art-Inventory Management Upstart ArtBinder ArtBinder, founded by Alexandra Chemla, flourished by helping galleries tackle inefficiencies. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 10, 2022
Law & Politics A Rediscovered Charles White Drawing Stolen From Howard University in the 1970s Must Be Returned, a Judge Has Ruled A North Carolina couple attempted to sell the lost work for up to $500,000 at Sotheby's. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 8, 2022