Artnet News Pro Art Businesses Are Uniquely Susceptible to Cybercrime. Here Are a Few Simple Ways to Protect Yours, According to Top Experts As an industry that still finalizes multimillion-dollar deals over email, the art trade has special vulnerabilities. By Ivan Macquisten, May 25, 2021
Artnet News Pro Signaling Growing Consolidation, London’s Fine Art Group Acquires One of America’s Largest Art Advisories The newly expanded Fine Art Group will grow its presence in the U.S. By Katya Kazakina, May 24, 2021
The Hammer Why Is the Art World Raving About Monaco? Simon de Pury Makes the Case for Why His Home Turf Is a Must-Go Industry Destination With its deep-pocketed collector base and persuasive atmosphere of Old World splendor, the principality is enjoying an art market revival. By Simon de Pury, May 24, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 15 Most Expensive Artworks That Sold at Auction Around the World in April 2021 We combed through the results to bring you the top 15 lots of April 2021. By Artnet News, May 21, 2021
Artnet News Pro Is This the Art Fair of the Future? At Art Basel Hong Kong, Dealers Beam in as Holograms and Galleries Hawk NFTs for Crypto Even with a pared-down exhibitor list and stringent travel restrictions, artwork was moving briskly at Art Basel Hong Kong. By Vivienne Chow, May 21, 2021
Wet Paint Wet Paint: Julian Schnabel Is Having a Baby at 70, Market Goes Gaga for Long-Dead Surrealist, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip What rock star has a secret stash of George Condo paintings? What unlikely U.S. city is being scouted by a mega-gallery? Read on for answers. By Nate Freeman, May 21, 2021
Artnet News Pro The Launch of David Zwirner’s New Click-to-Buy Online Marketplace Is Already a Success. Here’s How Much Sold on Day One The dealer's son, Lucas Zwirner, is heading up the new site Platform. By Taylor Dafoe, May 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro This Mega-Collector Bought $100 Million Worth of Art at Last Week’s Auctions, Including Basquiat’s $50 Million Take on the Medicis The same buyer also offloaded a few lower-priced works. By Katya Kazakina, May 20, 2021
The Art Detective The Dawn of the ‘Art Bros’: How Keyed-In Gen Z Investors Are Moving the Markets for Emerging Artists From Their Laptops Against the backdrop of a democratization of the financial world, a new, profit-hungry generation of buyers is betting on art. By Katya Kazakina, May 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro What Is Driving Hong Kong’s Latest Auction Boom? Our Data Provides an Answer We read the tea leaves in data from the Artnet Price Database to give you a sense of what's in store. By Julia Halperin, May 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro The Newark Museum’s Hugely Controversial Sotheby’s Sale Nets the Institution $5.9 Million, Even as Three Works Fail to Meet Expectations The sale was widely criticized by current and former museum directors. By Eileen Kinsella, May 19, 2021
The Gray Market Why the Art Market Is Colliding With Investors’ Biggest, Weirdest New Fixation (and No, It’s Not Crypto) Our columnist connects the dots between SPACs, NFTs, Paul Ryan, Emily Ratajkowski, and, of course, New Jersey’s Hometown Deli. By Tim Schneider, May 19, 2021
Artnet News Pro Meet the New Generation of Young, Obscenely Wealthy, and Totally Obsessed Collectors Who Are Upending Asia’s Art Market Work by young international artists is going gangbusters in Hong Kong. The demand is largely fueled by collectors under 45. By Vivienne Chow, May 19, 2021
Artnet News Pro Who Bought Elizabeth Peyton’s $2.1 Million David Bowie Portrait at Sotheby’s? This NFT Collector Diversifying Into Blue-Chip Art Dealers and auction houses hope that more crypto millionaires will transition into traditional collecting categories. By Katya Kazakina, May 18, 2021
Artnet News Pro Hot Lots: 6 Artworks That Completely Upended Expectations During Last Week’s New York Day Sales The evening sales get all the attention. But it's at the day sales where market stars are born. By Nate Freeman, May 18, 2021