The Art Detective The High-Flying Basquiat Market Fell Off a Cliff Last Year. Why? The artist's auction market plummeted 50 percent in 2022, a dizzying fall from its much-ballyhooed peak of a year prior. By Katya Kazakina, Jan 5, 2023
The Gray Market 8 Highly Specific Predictions for the Art Industry in 2023 (Including an Art-Fair Death Foretold) Our columnist mans the fortune teller's booth again to try to envision what awaits the art world in the year ahead. By Tim Schneider, Jan 4, 2023
Artnet News Pro Patti Wong, the Retiring Sotheby’s Rainmaker Who Made Hong Kong an Auction Mecca, Reflects on Asia’s Rise as a Market Powerhouse In this exclusive interview with Patti Wong, the 30-year auction house veteran charts the rise of Asia and discusses how Hong Kong became an auction hub. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 3, 2023
Artnet News Pro These Are the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in 2022 Lauren Quin, Albert Willem, and Rachel Jones are newcomers to the Artnet Price Database as their careers skyrocket. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 27, 2022
Artnet News Pro The Art Market at a Glance: 6 Charts That Map the Biggest Changes in the Industry in 2022 The art market took a wild ride this year—here are some of the biggest changes we charted through the data. By Artnet News, Dec 26, 2022
Wet Paint Wet Paint In the Wild: Dimes Square Rapper Blaketheman1000 Moves to Bushwick, Jet Skis at Art Basel Miami Beach, and Performs in Philadelphia The Dimes Square rapper takes us through a week in his life. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 23, 2022
Wet Paint A 26-Year-Old Artist Named Cumwizard69420 Gets a Show at Cheim and Read, a Trendy Tribeca Gallery Is Unamicably Splitting, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, where is O'Flaherty's new space setting up? And which sandwich boy-turned-art dealer is getting trolled on Twitter? By Annie Armstrong, Dec 22, 2022
The Gray Market Artnet Newstradamus Tim Schneider Grades His 10 Highly Specific Art-World Predictions for 2022 Our columnist passes judgment on the predictions he made at the start of 2022 to see where he got it right and where he missed the mark. By Tim Schneider, Dec 21, 2022
The Hammer In Pictures: Simon de Pury Looks Back on a Whirlwind Year of Auctions, Celebrity Sightings, and Images That Stopped Him in His Tracks For his last column of the year, the auctioneer shares 12 moments that made a mark on him in 2022. By Simon de Pury, Dec 20, 2022
Artnet News Pro People Just Love to Hate Los Angeles Art Dealer Nino Mier. Will He Be Able to Make Better Friends in New York? How the former sandwich boy made his way up through the Wild West of the art market to become one of the art world's most polarizing figures. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 19, 2022
Wet Paint Funding Cuts Threaten Shepard Fairey’s First Museum Show in Germany, Clearing Sets Down Roots in Manhattan, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip Plus, what Kardashian brand is Sam Bankman-Fried rumored to have tried to invest in? Who in the Macklowe family is into bondage? Read on for answers. By Annie Armstrong, Dec 16, 2022
The Back Room The Back Room: Don’t Believe the Hype This week: a sobering survey of gender and racial equity, Munich says ‘nein’ to Shepard Fairey, a Met director mouths off from beyond the grave, and much more. By Artnet News, Dec 16, 2022
Artnet News Pro How Crypto Investor Ryan Zurrer Went From Unapologetic NFT Speculator to Fervent Missionary of Digital Art We followed the entrepreneur on a whirlwind year of financial disappointments and intellectual victories. By Naomi Rea, Dec 15, 2022
The Gray Market How Random International, Maker of the Immersive Sensation ‘Rain Room,’ Is Bringing the Experiential Art Business Into the 21st Century The 'Living Room' appears 10 years after Random International's breakout 'Rain Room'. By Tim Schneider, Dec 14, 2022
Artnet News Pro London’s $56 Million Old Master Evening Sales Suggest That Experiments to Reinvent the Category May Be Paying Off Amid dwindling interest and low supply of top masterpieces, the efforts to expand the category's typical offerings are beginning to bear fruit. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 13, 2022
