Auctions A Turf War Between South Korea’s Galleries and Auction Houses Heats Up as a Trade Organization Warns of a ‘Collapsing’ of Market Order Galleries allege that the auction houses have decimated their businesses. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Auctions Phillips Is Opening a New Business Division for Wealthy Art Collectors in Need of Legal and Financial Advice The new department reflects the increasing sophistication of the booming global art trade. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 18, 2022
Law A Bombshell Lawsuit Between Two Collectors Exposes How Far Some Will Go to Get Access to the Art They Want Collectors Michael Xufu Huang and Federico Castro Debernardi have settled their lawsuit, but not before revealing the market's inner workings. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 12, 2022
Auctions An Iconic René Magritte Landscape Could Fetch $60 Million at Sotheby’s in the Latest Sign That the Trophy Market Continues to Rage The work has never before been sold. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 11, 2022
Auctions Actor Michael Caine Is Auctioning Off His Marc Chagall Painting, an ‘Alfie’ Poster, and Other Art and Movie Memorabilia Bonhams will sell the collection in March. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 10, 2022
NFTs ‘All My Apes Gone’: An Art Dealer’s Despondent Tweet About the Theft of His NFTs Went Viral… and Has Now Become an NFT The stolen trove was worth an estimated $2.2 million. The NFT of the tweet is going for a lot less. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 5, 2022
NFTs A New NFT Venture Has an Innovative Idea: Make Buyers Prove They Know Something About an Artist Before They Bid Xin Li-Cohen, dubbed Christie's 'secret weapon,' is co-founder of TR Lab. Artists including Cai Guo Qiang are on board. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 4, 2022
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2021—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did Plus, who bought and sold them (when we could figure it out). By Artnet News, Dec 30, 2021
Auctions Boosted by Private Sales and NFTs, Christie’s Brought in a Total of $7.1 Billion in 2021—Its Best Results in Five Years Christie's came in second behind Sotheby's in overall results, but private sales surged. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 20, 2021
Art Fairs Collectors Unleash Pent-Up Buying Demand at NADA Miami, Where Concerns Over Speculation Abound Several of the booths had sold out on opening day of NADA Miami, where buyers were out in full force for young artists in particular. By Eileen Kinsella & Annie Armstrong, Dec 2, 2021
Art Fairs ‘We Cannot Keep Up’: Dealers Return to a Red-Hot Market at Art Basel Miami Beach, Where VIPs Are Clamoring for Contemporary Art Tens of millions of dollars' worth of sales were cemented within the preview's first few hours. By Katya Kazakina & Eileen Kinsella, Dec 1, 2021
Artnet News Pro Jeff Koons’s Market Is Sliding After Years of Sky-High Prices and Notorious Production Delays. Can Pace, His New Gallery, Revive It? "It became so much about the money that I couldn’t look at a shiny outdoor sculpture without thinking of dollar signs," said one art advisor. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 29, 2021
Auctions Kenneth Griffin, Finance Titan and Retail-Investor Bogeyman, Beat Out the DAO to Buy the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s Goliath beats David. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 19, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Raked in $190 Million at Its Contemporary Art Double-Header, and Minted Several New Market Stars María Berrío and Lisa Brice were among the many artists who set auction records at "The Now." By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 18, 2021
Galleries Building on the Appeal of Lower-Priced Online Sales, Zwirner Launches an Editions Company to Publish Artists’ Prints Zwirner says prints and printmaking have been a passion since his earliest days in the art world. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 18, 2021
