Market Christie’s Shelves ‘Art Handler’ Clothing Collaboration With Highsnobiety After Backlash From Real-Life Art Handlers The pricey clothing line was viewed as offensive and tone-deaf by real-life art workers. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 6, 2022
Auctions Collectors Sherry and Joel Mallin Are Sending More Than 1,000 Artworks to Sotheby’s—the Largest Contemporary-Art Collection Ever Auctioned The collection will be auctioned in multiple sales, starting at Sotheby's London next week. By Dorian Batycka, Oct 6, 2022
Law & Politics The Judd Foundation Is Suing Two Galleries for ‘Disfiguring’ an $850,000 Donald Judd Sculpture With Fingerprints Fingerprints can "leave permanent, disfiguring, irreversible marks" on Judd's anodized aluminum surfaces, the foundation says. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 6, 2022
Auctions Robert Pattinson’s Participation May Turn Out to Be the Least Notable Part of Sotheby’s Experimental Contemporary Art Sale The sale also included the debut of Artists' Choice, a new initiative that enables artists and their dealers to consign directly to auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2022
Auctions Demand for Rediscovered Artists and Young Talent Remains Strong, If Not Frothy, at Christie’s $26 Million Postwar to Present Sale Works by the late Maine artist Lynne Drexler led the offering. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2022
On View Marina Abramović Plumbs Mindfulness and Witchcraft in a Pair of New U.K. Shows The artist is having two new shows at Modern Art Oxford and the Pitt Rivers Museum. By Torey Akers, Sep 30, 2022
Museums & Institutions A Longtime Whitney Curator and a Former Los Angeles Museum Director Will Curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli are teaming up for the museum's signature event. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 29, 2022
NFTs ‘It’s a Huge Message to the Centuries-Old Art Market’: 18-Year-Old NFT Star Diana Sinclair on How She’s Taking on the Blue-Chip Art World The artist's works are kicking off the launch of Christie's new NFT platform. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 29, 2022
Artnet News Pro Bonhams Has Been Acquiring Its Competitors at Warp Speed. Here’s Why the Middle-Market Player Wants a Network, Not an Empire The house has found a winning strategy in accelerating key trends at play in the auction realm. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 27, 2022
NFTs With NFT Prices Cratering, Can ‘Phygital’ Art Keep Collectors From Walking Away? Could the noted rise of "phygital art—a contested and even loathed term—mark a renaissance for the battered NFT market? By Dorian Batycka, Sep 26, 2022
Art & Exhibitions ‘I Had Never Seen Anything Like It Before’: Steve Martin on the Spark That Led Him to Become One of the Top Collectors of Australian Indigenous Art A selection of Western Desert painting from the actor's personal collection is now on view at the National Arts Club. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 26, 2022
People For Artist Cassi Namoda, Whose Work Blends African Histories and Mythologies With Personal Memories, ‘Painting Is a Spiritual Act’ The Mozambique-born, US-based artist just wrapped a solo show at Goodman Gallery in Cape Town. By Helen Jennings, Sep 26, 2022
Crime U.K. Dealer Rob Newland Has Pleaded Guilty to a Role in Inigo Philbrick’s $86 Million Art-Fraud Scheme Prosecutors say Newland helped construct the byzantine business deals that allowed the ruse to proceed. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2022
Pop Culture Painting Helped ‘James Bond’ Star Pierce Brosnan Cope With Grief. Now, an L.A. Gallery Will Show the Actor’s Deeply Personal Art The actor will show the works at the gallery Seasons L.A. By Dorian Batycka, Sep 26, 2022
Museums & Institutions Toronto’s Power Plant Contemporary Art Center Is in Turmoil Amid a Mass Resignation of Board Members Long-simmering tensions between the museum and the Harbourfront Centre, which oversees it, came to a head last week. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2022
