Auctions In a Profound Shift, Christie’s Is Eliminating Its Standalone Impressionist and Modern Art Department, Shedding a Significant Amount of Staff in the Process The auction house says the move is a better reflection of how people collect—but it's also a cost-saving measure. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 26, 2020
Auctions Here’s Your Guide to the Top Lots in the First-Ever Hybrid Marquee Summer Auctions, Taking Place Simultaneously In-Person and Online The houses are still banking on trophy-hunting collectors to prop up their rescheduled marquee sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 23, 2020
Auctions The Van Gogh Museum Paid $236,000 for a Revealing Letter by Van Gogh and Gauguin About Their Visits to Brothels The museum is planning an exhibition of the artist's letters this fall. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 17, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Reimagine the Auction Experience by Livestreaming Its Big-Money June Art Sales—Without an Audience The sale is scheduled for June 29. By Eileen Kinsella, May 29, 2020
Auctions The Collection of Cable-Television Impresario Ginny Williams, Full of Top-Notch Works by Women, Could Fetch $50 Million at Sotheby’s The collection will be sold across a series of sales throughout 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, May 22, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Online Contemporary Sale Fetches $13.7 Million—More Than Doubling the Previous Record for a Virtual Art Sale, Set Three Weeks Ago But the statistics don't account for the high number of withdrawn works. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Will Replace Its Marquee June Sales in New York With a Streaming ‘Relay’ Auction to Unfold Across Four Cities Worldwide The sale kicks off at 8 p.m. local time in Hong Kong on July 10. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2020
Galleries In a Radical Move, Sotheby’s Has Debuted a New Online Sales Platform for Blue-Chip Contemporary Art Galleries, Taking a Cut of All Sales Sotheby's will take a flat commission from galleries based on sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 28, 2020
Galleries Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the Online Editions of the Dallas Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, and David Zwirner’s ‘Platform’ We've adapted our art-fair sales column for our new virtual world. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Apr 23, 2020
Auctions The Good News? Global Online Auctions Grew 63 Percent Last Month. The Bad News? That May Not Be Nearly Enough The next two months will be a test of whether auction houses can build on their recent momentum. By Julia Halperin, Apr 22, 2020
Galleries Mega-Galleries Aren’t the Only Ones Supporting Pandemic Relief Efforts. Here’s How Dealers With a Lot More to Lose Are Giving Back Galleries are getting creative about ways to give back. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 21, 2020
Opinion What to Do When the Art World’s on Lockdown? Kenny Schachter Goes Searching for Cut-Price Deals From Quarantine Our columnist ventures into the lockdown-era art market and finds that it's not quite the ghost town some might expect. By Kenny Schachter, Apr 6, 2020
Auctions The Hotly Anticipated Auction of the Macklowe Collection, Predicted to Raise the Art Market to New Heights, Has Been Postponed The sale could rake in upwards of $700 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 18, 2020
Opinion As Coronavirus Upends the Art World, Kenny Schachter Hits the Fairs (and Shares a Convo With His Frenemy Inigo Philbrick) Our columnist suits up to prepare for what is likely to be a bumpy ride. By Kenny Schachter, Mar 12, 2020
Art Fairs TEFAF, One of Europe’s Premier Art Fairs, Closes Four Days Early After a Dealer Tests Positive for Coronavirus The fair is a major force for the local economy and the international Old Master market. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2020
