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ART

Pierre Bonnard painting art museum

Big in D.C. & A Boesky Discovery

News and notes on the Phillips Collection’s huge Bonnard show, and Boesky’s just-closed exhibit of a very, very new painter.
Marion Maneker • April 28, 2024
Marion Maneker • April 23, 2024
Artnet & The Price of Everything
Hans Neuendorf
Before Artnet, dealers and auction houses had a stranglehold on information. Then came Hans Neuendorf… and nothing has been the same since.
Marion Maneker • April 23, 2024
The Sotheby’s Debt Soap Opera
Patrick Drahi
Facing a mountain of debt both on his private auction house and public company, Altice, Sotheby’s owner Patrick Drahi is implementing a neat little trick to maximize revenue without increasing sales. Will it work? His competition isn’t sure yet…
joan mitchell Claude Monet paintings
Marion Maneker • April 23, 2024
Three Women
A stagnant May auction season in New York just got a major jolt via six works by O’Keeffe, Carrington, and Mitchell, with combined low estimates of nearly $60 million.
sotheby's auction gustav klimt
Marion Maneker • April 23, 2024
Art Market Shocks & Leon Black’s Math
The business of art, often misunderstood in the media, is a mysterious alchemy of ego, economic cycles, and a genuine passion for the sublime. But explaining the unexplainable is why I joined Puck.
Dmitry Rybolovlev, the billionaire Russian fertilizer mogul.
Eriq Gardner • December 4, 2023
Did Russia’s Fertilizer King Overpay for His Da Vinci?
An explosive legal battle between billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, a scheming Swiss art dealer, and the auction house Sotheby’s threatens to expose some of the industry’s dirtiest secrets.
Alvin Bragg’s efforts have resulted in several museums parting with their Schieles.
Eriq Gardner • November 6, 2023
The Art World’s Russian Prisoner Dilemma
A fight over a century-old portrait, which ended up in Chicago after being uprooted by the Nazis, has the potential to reshape the landscape of art ownership disputes and even draw in the Biden administration.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg obtained search warrants allowing for the seizure of three artworks by the late Austrian artist, Egon Schiele.
William D. Cohan • September 27, 2023
Morgenthau, Bragg & A Manhattan Nazi Art Heist Saga
Nearly a century after a trove of Egon Schiele masterworks were stolen by the Nazis, District Attorney Alvin Bragg has seized them back. The story of their loss, and recovery, may be the most important development in the world of art restitution in a generation.
Andy Warhol
Eriq Gardner • March 21, 2022
The Andy Warhol Legal Diaries
Will the Supreme Court save the $1.7 trillion art market? Some in the art world are worried that a copyright ruling last year could make it unlawful to derive recognizable inspiration from something else.