Auctions Is the Contemporary Art Market Due for a Contraction? A Look Beyond the Mega-Sales Presents a Dimmer Picture Contemporary art was the only major category to decline in total sales volume at auction last week. Here's what that means. By Tim Schneider, Nov 30, 2018
Auctions A British Auction-House Employee Used a 4,000-Year-Old Pot He Bought for $6 to Store His Toothbrushes It later sold at auction for a 2,000 percent profit. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 29, 2018
Auctions The Biggest Winner of Auction Week and 12 Other Takeaways From New York’s $2 Billion Sales From the biggest winner to the most surprising pass, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Artnet News, Nov 20, 2018
Auctions With a Historic Splash, David Hockney Becomes the World’s Priciest Living Artist in Christie’s $358 Million Postwar Sale The work by the British artist topples Koons's Balloon Dog to become the most expensive work by a living artist. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 15, 2018
Auctions Forget Masterpiece Theater—Sotheby’s Delivers a Sterling $362.6 Million Contemporary Art Sale Built From the Middle Market It was an impressive night that saw record after record drop for important artists with growing markets. By Tim Schneider, Nov 14, 2018
Auctions New Auction Records for Hopper and de Kooning Lead Christie’s Booming $318 Million Barney Ebsworth Sale Is the Hopper masterpiece headed to a museum? By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2018
Law & Politics Russian Billionaire Art Collector Dmitry Rybolovlev Is Officially Charged in the Sprawling Monaco Corruption Probe A new twist in a years-long art dispute has now focused scrutiny on the Russian buyer himself By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2018
Law & Politics Bill Cosby, Sitting in Prison, Hopes to Sell Two Major Thomas Hart Benton Paintings for Millions of Dollars The paintings could be worth a combined $14 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 12, 2018
Auctions Hoping for a ‘Salvator Mundi’ Bump, a Paris Auction House Is Testing the Market for Leonardo’s Drawings A Leonardo drawing could sell for as much as $68 million, smashing the previous auction record for the artist's works on paper. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 12, 2018
Art Fairs Despite China’s Wavering Economy, Western Dealers Find Plenty of Encouragement at Shanghai’s Art Fairs Art021 and the West Bund Art Fair serve as complements to one another. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 9, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Who Is the Activist Sculptor Simone Leigh? Here Are 5 Things to Know About This Year’s Hugo Boss Prize Winner Look for her work across New York next year and catch the final day of her Chelsea show. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 19, 2018
Analysis At Hong Kong’s Latest Round of Auctions, Work by Western Artists Reached a New High Sales topped $260 million during the October auction week, with western artists tripling their previous total. By Tim Schneider, Oct 18, 2018
Law & Politics Gagosian to an Angry Collector Who Paid Millions for Jeff Koons Sculptures That Never Arrived: You Can’t Rush a Perfectionist The dealer argues that Steve Tananbaum's claims are baseless because the artist "often takes years" to complete his sculptures. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 17, 2018
Auctions Banksy Authenticates and Renames His Shredded $1.4 Million Painting—Which the Buyer Plans to Keep Sotheby's now calls it "the first work in history ever created during a live auction." By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 11, 2018
Law & Politics Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev Accuses Sotheby’s of Price Inflation in a $380 Million Suit Despite turning hefty profits on artworks, the Russian billionaire continues his international legal fight with dealer Yves Bouvier. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2018
