Crime Inigo Philbrick’s Lawyers Make a Last-Ditch Appeal for Leniency, With Testimonials From Gilbert & George and a Camp Counselor Seventeen friends and family members have written letters of support on the incarcerated dealer's behalf. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 4, 2022
Artnet News Pro How Much Does It Cost to Acquire a Viral Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room? Is Money Even Enough? The Answers May Surprise You The works' complexity requires a major commitment from owners. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 3, 2022
Market The Auction Market Is on Fire, But Fairs Are Still Flailing: 7 Takeaways From the 2022 Art Basel Market Report Also, NFTs are definitely a thing. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 28, 2022
Auctions An Unassuming Chardin Strawberry Painting Fetches a Record-Shattering $26.8 Million at Auction, Shocking Market-Watchers The luminous 18th-century still life is the only known instance in which he painted strawberries. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Galleries Upper East Side Mainstay Venus Over Manhattan Will Open a New Downtown Location With a Focus on Young Artists The new space marks the gallery's 10th anniversary and opens with a show by Ana Benaroya. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Auctions How Much for an Invisible Artwork? Sotheby’s Is Betting It Can Get a Half Million Dollars for a Sales Receipt by Yves Klein Klein sold a number of such works between 1959 and 1962 in return for a weight of pure gold. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 22, 2022
Auctions Led by a Prized Francis Picabia, Sotheby’s First-Ever Surrealist Sale in Paris Nets $36 Million The event included 23 lots and was highlighted by a 1929 Picabia picture that sold for $10.9 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 17, 2022
Artnet News Pro The Co-Founders of SuperRare Tell Us How and Why Their Incredibly Successful NFT Platform Became a DAO We spoke to the brains behind the company about its genesis four years ago and its massive growth. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 16, 2022
Auctions Bonhams Buys Boston-Based Skinner Auction House, Accelerating Consolidation of Midlevel Auctions The acquisition 'brings the world to New England,' and creates an entity known as Bonhams Skinner. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 16, 2022
Galleries Lehmann Maupin Goes All in on Tech, Offering NFTs and an Augmented Reality Experience From Ashley Bickerton Less than a year after it started accepting cryptocurrency as payment, Lehmann Maupin is wading further into the digital art world. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2022
Galleries The Rauschenberg Foundation Is Teaming Up With New Galleries to Bring a Bonanza of Shows to New York and Salzburg The foundation is putting a serious push behind the artist's post-1970s work. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 9, 2022
Law & Politics U.S. Authorities Have Indicted a Superblue Sales Director as an Alleged Conspirator of Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Just weeks before Inigo Phibrick is set to appear in court for sentencing, a new indictment has been made in the art fraud case. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 2, 2022
Market The Financial Community Is Shutting Its Doors to Russia. Will the Art Market Follow? The same conditions that create soaring values are now being used to keep a lid on art being used as an asset. By Katya Kazakina & Eileen Kinsella, Feb 28, 2022
Auctions A Prized Basquiat Owned by Billionaire Mega-Collector Yusaku Maezawa Could Fetch More Than $70 Million at Auction This Spring Maezawa also revealed he is planning to build a museum to house his collection. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 28, 2022
Artnet News Pro Not Done Star Spotting? Here Are 5 Exciting Artists at the Los Angeles Fairs Whose Careers Are About to Take Off We scoured the aisles of Frieze, Felix, and Spring/Break Art Show to bring you the artists most worth watching. By Artnet News, Feb 22, 2022