Auctions Phillips Teams Up With Another Auction House as Part of an Ambitious Plan to Grow Its Foothold in China A collaboration with Beijing's Yongle Auction will allow Phillips's international clients to bid at sales in mainland China. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 22, 2022
Market Swiss Art Dealer Yves Bouvier Has Sold His Singapore Freeport to a Chinese Crypto Magnate for a Major Loss The Singapore complex, built 12 years ago for $70 million, sold for less than half that sum. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2022
Analysis How Canny Market Players Helped Push Once-Obscure Painter Lynne Drexler’s Prices From Fifty Bucks to Over $1 Million The painter lived for decades on a remote island in Maine. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2022
Art Fairs Dealers Have Long Had a Love-Hate Relationship With Art Fairs. Here’s Why They Are Growing Fonder Lately While still a huge lift, fairs are more important than ever, dealers say. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2022
Law & Politics The New York Attorney General Ramps Up Its Investigation of Sotheby’s, Accusing the Auction House of Helping More Clients Evade Taxes The attorney general is narrowing in on "resale certificates" that have special tax benefits. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 28, 2022
Auctions Andy Warhol Made Some Very Unusual Paintings When He Was in Art School. Now His Family May Be Trying to Bring Them to Auction Warhol made the works while studying at the Carnegie Institute in the 1940s. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 11, 2022
Museums & Institutions Arts Council England Has Issued New ‘Proactive’ Restitution Advice for Museums, Replacing Outdated, Two-Decade-Old Guidance The previous report was issued all the way back in 2000. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 8, 2022
Museums & Institutions In a Major Promotion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Added CEO to Director Max Hollein’s Title Hollein takes the mantle from current CEO Dan Weiss, who is stepping down next summer. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 4, 2022
Analysis In 2020, Blue-Chip Art Businesses Flocked to the Hamptons. Are They in It for the Long Haul? "It's a thing," said one veteran dealer of the newly energized Hamptons art scene. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 2, 2022
Art World See the Incredible, Recently Rediscovered Photographs a Young Woman Took During a Trip to Postwar South Korea: ‘These Places Are Gone’ The rare color images are a valuable snapshot of South Korea's modernization. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 2, 2022
People Claes Oldenburg, the Leading Pop-Art Sculptor Who Turned Hamburgers and Erasers Into Whimsical Totems of the 20th Century, Has Died at 93 Oldenburg's monumental and playful outdoor sculptures can be seen all over the world. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 18, 2022
Museums & Institutions ‘People Are Willing to Give Their Lives’: We Spoke to Ukrainians Who Are Risking Everything to Safeguard Their Country’s Art For some museum workers, who survived the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the scene is all too familiar. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 15, 2022
NFTs The Calder Foundation Is Looking to Gamify Art History With a New Web3 Experience That Awards Official NFTs to Winners Proceeds from the NFTs will be used to fund conservation of Calder's sculptures. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 13, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Reports Total Sales Hit $4.1 Billion in the First Half of 2022, Its Best Performance Since 2015 Still, clouds were gathering on the horizon with respect to Asian buyers and NFT sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2022
Art & Exhibitions New York’s Last Payphone Kiosk, Removed from Midtown Last Month, Has Officially Become a Museum Artifact The piece of urban history was immediately put on display at the Museum of the City of New York. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 20, 2022
