Art Fairs Dealers Report Only a Smattering of Sales at Art Basel and TEFAF’s Online Art Fairs, Raising Doubts About the Value of the Virtual Events But with low or no cost to participate, there's not much risk either. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 3, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Livestreamed Paris-to-London Hybrid Sale Pulled in $90 Million, Led by a Picasso and Banksy’s Irreverent Twist on Monet Observers describe it as "painting by numbers" auction action. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 21, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Sell a Nine-Foot-Tall Giacometti Sculpture for at Least $90 Million in an Unusual Sale Where the Bids Are Kept Secret The work reportedly comes from the collection of billionaire Ron Perelman. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 21, 2020
Auctions A Decade Ago, Supersize Images by German Photographers Were Selling for Millions. Now, Prices Have Fallen Off a Cliff A work by Andreas Gursky sold in 2011 for more than the combined auction sales of every contemporary German photographer in the first half of 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 18, 2020
Opinion Kenny Schachter Is Back, Baby! And He’s So OVR It. (But Has Plenty to Say About the Ron Perelman Selloff) Our columnist rides again, with some choice thoughts on the uncanny new reality of New York's fall art season. By Kenny Schachter, Oct 14, 2020
Market Christie’s Experimental Partnership With the Biennale Paris Fair Bombs With Less Than a Quarter of the Works Sold The new online event reaped just $1.7 million in sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 13, 2020
Analysis American Museums Are Taking Advantage of Relaxed Rules to Sell More Than $100 Million of Art at Auction This Season The Baltimore Museum is one of eight art institutions selling blue-chip art at auction this season amid relaxed rules about deaccessioning. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 5, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s $4.6 Million Sale of Keith Haring’s Personal Art Collection Tripled Expectations and Drew in Droves of New Buyers The proceeds from the sale will benefit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of New York. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 2, 2020
Market Millennials Are More Interested in Buying Art Than Ever—and 5 Other Takeaways From a New Art Basel Report on the State of the Market Despite a dramatic drop in sales, the report has a few bright spots. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 8, 2020
Art Fairs A Wildly Popular Graffiti Exhibition Is Going ‘Beyond the Streets’ by Launching a New Online Art Fair Products on sale will range from $30 t-shirts to $30,000 paintings. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 3, 2020
Market Billionaire Revlon Owner Ronald Perelman Is Reportedly Looking to Sell Off Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Worth of Art The billionaire recently told Vanity Fair he wants "a simpler life, with less running around and more time with my family." By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 28, 2020
Market Speculation on Black Artists Has Gotten So Intense That for Christie’s Latest Sale, Its Curator Is Asking Buyers to Sign a Special Contract In an effort to thwart flippers, the show's curator Destinee Ross-Sutton has developed a list of terms to which buyers must agree. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 13, 2020
Law & Politics An Art-Dealing Dynasty Heir Sues Phillips Auction House for Reneging on a Deal After the Artist’s Market Took a Tumble Art dealer Joe Nahmad is suing Phillips after the auction house pulled out of a $5 million guarantee deal for a work by Rudolf Stingel. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 7, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Middling Impressionist and Modern Sale Nets $62.8 Million Thanks to a Major Boost From Latin American Treasures Sotheby's started off the lengthy auction evening on a strong note, but bidding for Impressionist and Modern art was more subdued. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 29, 2020
Auctions Led by a Sizzling Bacon, Sotheby’s First-Ever Hybrid Contemporary Evening Sale Format Nets an Impressive $300.4 Million The carefully choreographed sale took place on three continents. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 29, 2020
