The Gray Market How Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Explains Why the Art Market Will Always Cater to a Handful of Elites (and Other Insights) Our columnist parses how the new business of meme stocks butts up against time-honored fundamentals of art-market success. By Tim Schneider, May 4, 2022
Artnet News Pro Brussels Is Home to Some of Europe’s Most Dedicated Art Collectors. Find Out Which One Bought What at the City’s Top Art Fair For its size, Brussels has an outsized number of serious art collectors. By Devorah Lauter, May 3, 2022
Artnet News Pro Despite a Heat Wave, Crowds of Collectors Returned in Full Force to the India Art Fair—and They Were Ready to Move Fast This year’s edition of the New Delhi fair—the first to take place since the pandemic started—had a decidedly local focus. By Skye Arundhati Thomas, May 2, 2022
Artnet News Pro 7 Key Questions About How DAOs Could Actually Work for the Art Market, Answered In a market as elitist, opaque, and illogical as the one for fine art, could DAOs really take hold? By Amy Castor, May 2, 2022
Wet Paint The Best and Worst Tippers in the Art World—Revealed, a Top Rapper Makes His Curatorial Debut, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, what superstar artist's work got all dinged up on the way to the Venice Biennale? And artist Tourmaline gives us a peek into her life. By Annie Armstrong, Apr 29, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Nature vs. Nurture This week: the Almine Rech method, Marlene Dumas defies speculators, Vera Molnár’s market paradox, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Apr 29, 2022
Artnet News Pro 7 Ambitious Collectors Dish on What They Loved—and Are Trying to Buy—From the Venice Biennale From a Nigerian lawyer to a Bangladeshi textile entrepreneur, these collectors were on the hunt at the art world’s biggest show. By Rebecca Anne Proctor, Apr 29, 2022
The Gray Market What the Art World Can Learn From the Creators of ‘Moneyball’ and Their Skepticism About the Quantitative Revolution (and Other Insights) Our columnist explains why the thinkers who took data science mainstream now have serious reservations about its overuse. By Tim Schneider, Apr 27, 2022
The Hammer Simon de Pury on How He Pulled Off a $1.3 Million Ukraine Fundraiser at the Venice Biennale Even among the most glitzy events, the war was never far from anyone’s minds. By Simon de Pury, Apr 26, 2022
The Appraisal Marlene Dumas, Whose Latest Show in Venice Is Drawing Rave Reviews, Has Managed to Avoid Market Speculation. Here’s How As the artist's survey at the Palazzo Grassi draws crowds, we dug into the Artnet Price Database to see if her market matches her resume. By Julia Halperin, Apr 26, 2022
Artnet News Pro Fractional Ownership Is Turning Art Into Stocks—But Not Everyone Stands to Make a Profit Retail investors are buying bite-size pieces of Banksys and Picassos in the hope of a payday. Are they getting played? By Katya Kazakina, Apr 25, 2022
The Art Detective Gallerist Almine Rech Seems to Have the Midas Touch. But Are All Her Artists Worth Their Weight in Gold? Long established in the blue-chip market, the gallery has begun diversifying its portfolio, with surprising results. By Katya Kazakina, Apr 22, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Pavilions and Profits This week: Venice Biennale business etiquette, LGDR’s head-scratching artist list, spring auction anchor lots ahoy!, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Apr 22, 2022
Wet Paint Powerhouse Gallery LGDR Finally Names Its Artists, a ‘Bachelor’ Star Shows Us His NFTs, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, who was Hans Ulrich Obrist having lunch with in Venice? And curator Daisy Sanchez gives us a peek into her life. By Annie Armstrong, Apr 21, 2022
The Gray Market Worldwide Annual Art Sales Still Haven’t Grown Significantly Since 2014. Here Are 5 Theories Why (and Other Insights) Our columnist considers some theories as to why multiple reports have found stagnant growth in international art sales. By Tim Schneider, Apr 20, 2022