Artnet News Pro Phillips London Just Set Nearly 20 Auction Records for Emerging Artists in Its $8.8 Million ‘New Now’ Sale But the top lot of the night—an Andy Warhol flower work—comes as no surprise. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 14, 2021
Artnet News Pro Lehmann Maupin Gallery Has Inked an Exclusive Partnership With the Winklevoss Twins’s Gemini to Accept Cryptocurrency for Art The gallery hopes the move will lure new and younger buyers. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 14, 2021
The Gray Market How Hunter Biden’s Ethics Agreement Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Rising Artists (and Other Insights) Our columnist thinks through the curious ethics agreement between the presidential progeny’s gallery and the White House. By Tim Schneider, Jul 13, 2021
Artnet News Pro Christie’s Came Out of the Pandemic to Have Its Most Lucrative First Half in Years. Here, Execs at the Auction House Explain How They Did It The sales thus far have amounted to $3.5 billion. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 13, 2021
Artnet News Pro Gallery Pop-Ups Are Turning Vacation Spots Around the Globe Into Unlikely Overnight Art Hubs. Next Up? Puglia, Italy Taste-making dealers will gather at the Palazzo Tamborino-Cezzi for a weeks-long event. By Kate Brown, Jul 13, 2021
Artnet News Pro ‘We’re in Uncharted Territory’: Artist Joel Mesler on How a Career as a Dealer Prepared Him Not at All to Become a Market Darling Once a scout for up-and-coming artists, Mesler has seen prices for his own work rise by 900 percent in three years. By Henri Neuendorf, Jul 12, 2021
Artnet News Pro Here Are the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in June 2021—and the Rising Talents Poised to Break in Soon See who's up, who's down, and who's up next. By Julia Halperin, Jul 12, 2021
Artnet News Pro Germany’s Auction Market Has Remained Strong Through the Pandemic. Now, It’s Poised to Make Even Bigger Gains Germany's auctions saw more and more works going over the €1 million mark—and international auction houses like Sotheby's have noticed. By Kate Brown, Jul 11, 2021
Artnet News Pro Christie’s Sets Records for Georges de la Tour and Six Other Artists at Its Healthy $52.8 Million London Old Masters Sale Almost half of the lots at Sotheby's failed to sell, while Christie's total was buoyed by fresh-to-market works by Bernardo Bellotto and more. By Judd Tully, Jul 9, 2021
The Back Room The Back Room: Changing the Game Art whales splash into sports memorabilia, information (and NFTs) don’t want to be free, Dana Schutz’s market conquers all, and much more. By Tim Schneider, Jul 9, 2021
Artnet News Pro Arco Madrid Created a Market Moment for Spanish Art—But the Pandemic Kept International Galleries and Visitors Away Sales edged forward on day one of the 40th edition of the Spanish art fair. By Jennifer O'Mahony, Jul 8, 2021
The Art Detective Why the Biggest Blue-Chip Art Collectors in the World Are Suddenly Pumping Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Into Baseball Cards Baseball, basketball, and hockey cards are now fetching as much as works by Alexander Calder and George Condo. By Katya Kazakina, Jul 7, 2021
Artnet News Pro Art Basel’s Noah Horowitz Is Stepping Down After Six Years as Director of Americas for the Fair Horowitz will remain in his role until August. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 7, 2021
Kenny Schachter After Years of Ridicule, Kenny Schachter Has Kissed and Made Up With Zombie Formalist Lucien Smith. Here, They Talk Art, Drugs, & the Market Our columnist sat down in Switzerland with the battle-scarred veteran of the market wars for a heart-to-heart conversation. By Kenny Schachter, Jul 7, 2021
The Gray Market How the $5.4 Million World Wide Web NFT Lays Bare the Promises and Lies of the Crypto-Art Market (and Other Insights) Our columnist examines whether information really wants to be free, or if that old ruse suggests a deeper problem. By Tim Schneider, Jul 6, 2021
