Auctions Phillips Auction House Says It Pulled In More Than Half a Billion Dollars in the First Half of 2021, a 25 Percent Increase Over 2019 Private sales and demand from Asia were key drivers of growth. By Eileen Kinsella, 2 days ago
Analysis Houston Built Big in 2020—But Shenzhen Is the Future: 7 Takeaways From a New Report on Global Cultural Trends AEA Consulting's Cultural Infrastructure Index aims to give a snapshot of the present and future of museum building. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 28, 2021
Art Fairs The Seattle Art Fair Will Return in 2022, After a Two-Year Hiatus and a Takeover by Art Market Productions Art Market Productions was initially a co-sponsor of the event, but will now take over as its sole organizer. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 27, 2021
Art Fairs Rebecca Ann Siegel, a Top Executive at Frieze, Will Leave Her Post as Staff Shakeups Continue Across the Art-Fair Sector Siegel is the second high-level fair executive to announce her departure in as many weeks. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 21, 2021
Art Fairs Who’s in and Who’s Out at the 2021 Art Basel Fair in Switzerland This September? Here’s the Full List Two-dozen galleries from around the world will make their Art Basel debut this fall. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 20, 2021
Artnet News Pro Art Shipping in the Age of COVID Is More Expensive and Complicated Than Ever—and a Return to ‘Normal’ Remains Very Far Away Advisors and art dealers are facing new logistical challenges as shippers urge patience. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 19, 2021
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
Museums The Daughter of Collectors Who Gave the Beyeler Foundation a Trove of Art Is ‘Scandalized’ by the Museum’s Plan to Sell A series of Dubuffet paintings donated to the museum in 2013 are now headed for sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 12, 2021
Auctions Sylvia Plath’s and Ted Hughes’s Wedding Rings, Love Letters, and Personal Effects Are Open for Bidding at Sotheby’s The rare and very affordable items were consigned by Plath’s first child with Hughes, Frieda. By Artnet News, Jul 9, 2021
Artnet News Pro ‘Fierce’ Demand From Collectors in Asia Propelled Sotheby’s $217 Million Sales of British and Contemporary Art in London The night was marked by respectable, but not frothy, bidding. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 29, 2021
People The Centre Pompidou Has Named Its Former Director, Laurent Le Bon, to Lead the Paris Museum Once Again Le Bon was most recently president of the Picasso Museum in Paris. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 25, 2021
Market Sotheby’s Is Opening a Pop-Up Sales Gallery in Monaco as the French Riviera Art Scene Continues to Heat Up This Summer Hauser and Wirth and Johann König have also recently opened spaces there. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 24, 2021
Galleries Why Watch Hulu When You Can Watch Art? David Zwirner Launches a Star-Studded Livestream Program at Galleries Around the Globe The gallery will host six talks across four cities and show dozens of artworks in a bid for live programming. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 9, 2021
Artnet News Pro ‘Woo-Hoo!’: A Global Hunger for Hot Young Figurative Art Propelled Phillips and Poly’s Hong Kong Sales to a ‘White Glove’ $90 Million Records abound for buzzed-about stars. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 9, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In the 1970s, Top Artists Were Commissioned to Design the Monuments of Their Dreams. Now, You Can See Them For the First Time A stack of one million oil drums and a giant bowling ball running down Park Avenue are some of the proposals in “Dream Monuments.” By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 7, 2021
