The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. The line was long. Hundreds of people waited for an hour and a half inside the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on opening day of NFT.NYC this week. … Read more
With Art Basel in the rear view, Thert-world insiders traded the belle-époque rooms of the Trois Rois hotel for top-deck cabins on their summer yachts, and Hauser and Wirth hosted a reception for Rashid Johnson’s latest solo show at its Mediterranean outpost in Menorca. (Read our review of the show here.) The 45-year-old artist’s recognizable … Read more
On Saturday evening in Zurich, Switzerland, over a symphony of excited dinner chatter and the clinking of champagne glasses toasting to Zurich Art Weekend, a seasoned French art collector faux hesitated as he raised a glass to his lips. “If it’s not too vulgar to say,”—and, in the amber glow of table lamps on the … Read more
Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops. If you have a tip, email Annie Armstrong at [email protected]. KEEPING UP WITH THE ART STARS About once a decade, the execs over in the Hollywood Hills decides it’s time to take a piece of the emerging-artist pie by gamifying their … Read more
This is part of the Biennial Artist Project, a series on the stars of the biennial circuit. You can also read profiles of the top 17 artists, our critic’s take on the list, and a report on the economics of being a biennial star. The full list of biennial artists is available to Artnet News … Read more
Few in the Western art market had heard of Huang Yuxing before mid-2020, when one of his fluorescent-hued paintings cracked $1 million at Christie’s Hong Kong. Once a young artist notes a price like that, it doesn’t take long for international players to start paying attention. Over the past year and a half, the Beijing-born … Read more
Louise Nevelson, best known for her monochromatic painted wood sculptures, is considered one of the most important postwar artists—but her market has only recently begun to catch up. During her lifetime, Nevelson—a woman with an incredible sense of personal style, which was also a part of her work—was as famous as Andy Warhol. In the … Read more