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The high-end art market is tanking. And that's ... a good thing?

by David Brancaccio , Meredith Garretson and Alex Schroeder
Sep 24, 2024
Yes, according to critic Blake Gopnik. When the market was thriving, he says, "the art was just unbelievably terrible."
The art market is in a correction phase, says critic Blake Gopnik. According to him, price and quality weren't closely related.
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Jury sides with Hermès in the first NFT trademark trial  

by David Brancaccio , Alex Schroeder and Erika Soderstrom
Feb 9, 2023
A luxury goods company went up against a digital artist. The artist lost.
Art critic Blake Gopnik explains why he thinks the jury came to the wrong conclusion.
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Fine art: a playground for the superrich

by Kai Ryssdal
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.
David Hockney's "The Conversation," part of the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. But fine art adviser Lisa Austin thinks a market slowdown may be imminent.
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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.
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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.
After receiving tens of thousands in cash, a Danish artist decides to "Take the Money and Run."
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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."
Two paintings by Fernand Léger that debuted at auction last year before the arrival of the pandemic, which disrupted gallery sales.
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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.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington is currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
"Mister Blue," the work on the right, is by Lee Krasner, one of the main artists discussed in Mary Gabriel's new book. It was shown at the Ordovas gallery in London in 2016.
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