Artnet News Pro Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 12 Key Takeaways From New York’s Mind-Melting $2.3 Billion Fall Sales From the priciest work to the top flop, here are our parting observations from two weeks of primetime New York auctions. By Artnet News, Nov 22, 2021
The Art Detective ‘The Underbidder Gets F-cked’: How Murky Financial Wizardry Thwarted the Crypto Dreamers and Other Bidders at This Week’s Auctions A mysterious thing happened to a number of top lots this season: the final price was less than the auction house initially recorded. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 19, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: A Taste for the Finer Things This week: everybody wins in auction week's sequel, the results of Art Basel’s solidarity fund, Giacometti meets the metaverse, and more. By Tim Schneider, Nov 19, 2021
Wet Paint David and Libbie Mugrabi Move On, Christie’s Staff Scouts for Private Sale on Discord, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, which dealer extraordinaire got outbid on the Macklowes' Picasso sculpture? And what Hollywood celebrity came out to fete David Salle? By Annie Armstrong, Nov 19, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction Around the World in October 2021 Last month's top sales were dominated by Sotheby's Picasso bonanza in Las Vegas and a half-shredded Banksy. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 17, 2021
The Gray Market Why NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of How Auction Houses Are Blurring the Line Between the Primary and Secondary Markets Our columnist examines The Big Three auction houses forays into crypto-art sales, and why it's less revolutionary than it may seem. By Tim Schneider, Nov 17, 2021
Artnet News Pro With the Limelight Stolen by Figurative Painting, a Softening Market for Photography Shifts Toward Conceptual Fare Mixed results at Paris Photo and Christie's this month signal changing tastes. By Anna Sansom, Nov 16, 2021
Artnet News Pro Tiny, Land-Locked Luxembourg Is Europe’s Richest Country. It Has Big Plans to Grow an Art Infrastructure to Match The local scene has expanded drastically in the last 10 years, but can the country become an arts hub? By Devorah Lauter, Nov 16, 2021
Artnet News Pro Chinese Millennial Collectors Were ‘Hungrier and Thirstier’ Than Ever for Contemporary Fare as They Took Shanghai Art Week By Storm Several galleries reported sold-out booths on the first day of the fairs. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 16, 2021
Artnet News Pro If You Had $3 Million, Would You Bid on a Wall Piece by Donald Judd or One by His Peer Lee Bontecou? In the latest installment in our series "This or That," art advisor Victoria Burns considers two very different artists from the heyday of 1960s New York. By Rachel Corbett, Nov 12, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Auction Action Returns to New York This week: a marquee auction overview, a big year of bounce-back on the block, another eight-figure Beeple, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Nov 12, 2021
The Art Detective ‘You Feel Lost’: Blue-Chip Veterans Bemoan the Current Contemporary-Crazed Market, Where Banksy Sells Better Than Monet Ever since the high-stakes auctions began in New York this week, the most burning question has been: is the time of blue-chip art over? By Katya Kazakina, Nov 12, 2021
Wet Paint ‘Free Peter Max’ Is the New ‘Free Britney,’ a Secondary-Market Dealmaker Pivots to Primary, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, which artist hung out downtown with Tyler, The Creator? And which gallery is taking poetic license with its so-called "livestream" program? By Annie Armstrong, Nov 11, 2021
Artnet News Pro Just How Much Stronger Is the Art Market in 2021 Than in Years Past? We Crunched the Numbers We read the tea leaves in data from the Artnet Price Database to break down the market. By Julia Halperin, Nov 10, 2021
The Gray Market Why Shocks to the Labor Market and Global Supply Chain Mean the Arts Are Paying More to Get Less (and Other Insights) Our columnist introduces art pros to "skimpflation" and all the ways it is forcing them to spend more for worse results. By Tim Schneider, Nov 10, 2021