Galleries Facing Financial Woes, Simon Lee Gallery Has Gone Into Court-Ordered Administration The news comes after Golden Lion-winning artist Sonia Boyce parted ways with the gallery last month. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jul 13, 2023
Auctions Christie’s Reports Global Sales Dropped 23 Percent in the First Half of the Year To be sure, 2022's stellar line-up was tough to replicate. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2023
Galleries Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: New York Dealer Rob Dimin on Flying Solo and the Risks and Rewards of Shaping His Own Program Dimin wasted no time in opening his own Tribeca gallery after a split with his longtime partner last year. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2023
Auctions Despite the Headwinds of a Market Correction, Bonhams Achieved Its Best First-Half Year Results Ever Investments in acquisitions of auction houses, dubbed the 'Bonhams Network,' and a revamped political strategy have paid off. By Vivienne Chow, Jul 12, 2023
Auctions A Rediscovered Portrait of Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s Sixth Wife, Fetches Four Times Its High Estimate at Sotheby’s The 16th-century painting of the English queen sold for $4.4 million. By Lee Carter, Jul 11, 2023
Auctions Two Rare Rembrandt Paintings, the Artist’s Last Known Portraits in Private Hands, Commanded $14 Million at Christie’s London The small paintings commanded a huge price. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 11, 2023
Market A Swedish Conceptual Art Duo Is Selling a New Run of Albrecht Dürer Prints to Propose an Alternative to Museum Deaccessioning Goldin+Senneby are working with the Whitworth museum to monetize an original impression in the museum's collection. By Holly Black, Jul 11, 2023
Auctions Tupac Shakur’s Self-Designed ‘Crown’ Ring Could Fetch $300,000 at Sotheby’s Auction Commemorating 50 Years of Hip Hop He wore the regal ring during his final public appearance at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. By Adam Schrader, Jul 10, 2023
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Advisor and Curator Sigrid Kirk on Her Commitment to Women Artists and the Marlene Dumas That Got Away The collector took solace in a vulnerable Gillian Wearing self-portrait during lockdown. By Lee Carter, Jul 9, 2023
Auctions Fancy a Louis Vuitton Bag by Your Favorite Contemporary Artist? A Charity Auction With Sotheby’s Offers a Chance to Snag One for a Cause The online auction runs through July 12, with proceeds going to charities of the artists' choice. By Artnet News, Jul 7, 2023
Art Fairs The First Tokyo Gendai Art Fair Is Off to a Promising Start. But There’s a Long Road Ahead for Japan to Compete on the Global Stage The fair bucked low expectations in its debut. By Naomi Rea, Jul 7, 2023
Art Collectors ‘If It Doesn’t Have Psyche, It Can’t Be Art’: Mega-Collector Dakis Joannou Docks His Famous Yacht to Talk About Collecting in a Chaotic Art World We caught up with Joannou aboard his Jeff Koons-painted superyacht in Hydra. By Naomi Rea, Jul 6, 2023
NFTs Digital Art Organization Rhizome’s New Blockchain Program Is an NFT-Dotted Journey Through the History of Generative Art The first NFT drop from Seed has already sold out. By Min Chen, Jul 5, 2023
Art Fairs Meet the Power Players Driving Tokyo Gendai, From the Dealer Who Discovered Yoshitomo Nara to a Psychiatrist Art Collector The orchestrators of Asia’s latest bluechip fair hope to elevate Tokyo on the world stage. By Jennifer Pastore, Jul 4, 2023
NFTs Beeple’s New—and Very Risqué—NFT Is the Artist’s First Work to Enter a Museum’s Permanent Collection The artwork is also the first NFT in Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Artte Contemporanea's collection. By Artnet News, Jul 3, 2023