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Art market
The high-end art market is tanking. And that's ... a good thing?
Sep 24, 2024
Yes, according to critic Blake Gopnik. When the market was thriving, he says, "the art was just unbelievably terrible."
Jury sides with Hermès in the first NFT trademark trial
Feb 9, 2023
A luxury goods company went up against a digital artist. The artist lost.
Fine art: a playground for the superrich
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Nicholas Guiang
Dec 8, 2022
Since the blockbuster auction of Paul Allen's collection, the art market might be losing some of the wind in its sails.
An art critic's perspective on the billion-dollar auction of Paul Allen's collection
by
David Brancaccio
, Alex Schroeder
and Jarrett Dang
Nov 11, 2022
Art critic Blake Gopnik comments on the record-setting auction, as well as his own interactions with the late Microsoft co-founder.
More people are buying art online, but is that making the fine art market more accessible?
by
Kimberly Adams
and Sean McHenry
Apr 9, 2021
Online art sales doubled during the pandemic, but that didn't necessarily make it easier to break into the art world — as a collector or as an artist.
Does the sale of fine art need physical spaces?
by
Alli Fam
and Kai Ryssdal
Jan 27, 2021
Masha Golovina of Masterworks.io talks about the two-tiered economy and says that when physical art fairs are coupled with online sales, "that's the ideal mix."
National Gallery acquires its first major painting by a Native American artist
by
Amy Scott
Jul 3, 2020
Critics ask why it took so long.
For public good, not for profit.
It's a good time to buy art made by women
by
Phoebe Unterman
and Maria Hollenhorst
Sep 24, 2018
Their work has historically been undervalued.