Law & Politics French Galleries Must Remain Closed Even Though Auction Houses Are Open During the Country’s Third Lockdown, a Court Rules The ruling shuts down a gallery association lawsuit claiming the rules created unfair competition. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 15, 2021
People How Mega-Collector and Scholar Estrellita Brodsky Uses Her Nonprofit Gallery to Grow Visibility for Latin American Artists Throughout her career, Brodsky has worked to redefine and broaden art historical narratives. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2021
Law & Politics A Former Samsung Chairman’s Multibillion-Dollar Art Collection May Be Donated to South Korea’s Museums, Avoiding an International Sell-Off Cultural officials previously feared that the chairman’s heirs might sell the collection abroad to pay their inheritance tax. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 15, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Nets $17 Million With Its First-Ever NFT Auction (Which Included Almost 20,000 Very Fungible Works) Thousands of buyers eagerly snapped up the anonymous artist Pak's $500 "cubes," which were made in an open edition. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2021
Market AI Art Collective Obvious Is Teaming Up With Blue-Chip Dealer Kamel Mennour for the Gallery’s First NFT Drop Two big-money high-tech art trends collide as AI-generated portraiture meets NFTs—all on offer from a respected art gallery. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 15, 2021
Art & Exhibitions Artist Sam Durant’s Eerie Modernist Drone Will Hover Over New York as the Next High Line Plinth Commission The 48-foot long sculpture is the same size as a Predator drone. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2021
Auctions Celeb Podcaster Russell Tovey’s Sotheby’s Sale Generates $8.5 Million—and Fierce Competition for Young Stars The tenth edition of the sale brought the series' highest total to date. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 14, 2021
Art & Exhibitions The Late Artist Matthew Wong Made an Ink Drawing Every Morning. For the First Time, Two Dozen Will Go on View in New York Made between 2013 and 2017, the drawings will debut at an exhibition at Cheim & Read in Chelsea. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 14, 2021
Law & Politics A 27-Year-Old Artist Is on Trial in Russia After Publishing Cartoonish Drawings That Promote an Accepting View of the Female Body The state is refusing public access to the trial on the grounds that the artist's work will be examined in court. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2021
Art World Glenn Kaino, Mercedes Dorame, and Other Artists Are Making Augmented-Reality Monuments You Can See on Snapchat The project is part of a collaboration with LACMA. By Artnet News, Apr 13, 2021
Market ‘It’s Whiplash’: After a Record-Setting Run, NFT Artwork Prices Have Plummeted Nearly 70 Percent in Four Weeks Is this the bubble bursting—or is it merely a course correction? By Sarah Cascone, Apr 13, 2021
Market Urs Fischer’s First NFT, Which Created Tension With His Longtime Dealer Gagosian, Sold for Nearly 100 Times Its Estimate on the Fair Warning App Gouzer admits the learning curve for the platform's first-ever NFT auction was steep. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 12, 2021
Pop Culture The Art Collective That Nike Sued for Pouring Human Blood on Its Sneakers Has Agreed to Recall the Shoes The group's lawyer says the shoes were intended as a comment on "collaboration culture." By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Will Offer 9 Multimillion-Dollar NFT CryptoPunks in Its May Evening Auction. Here’s What That Means The digital collectibles include a rare alien punk. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
People Cory Arcangel’s Latest Artwork Is a Kim Kardashian-Themed Video Game. What Does It Mean? Don’t Ask Him Arcangel says talking about his artistic intentions is hard. We asked him about them anyway. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 8, 2021
