Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 wrapped up its edition with a confident bravado not seen for many years. When the machinery runs smoothly and the buyers turn out in force, it is an unbeatable combo. This was the second edition under Bridget Finn's direction, and you could...
Christie’s has ended their romance with NFTs and Digital Art by closing their dedicated digital art department, a unit set up in 2022 with great fanfare at the height of the NFT boom. The move, described as a “strategic reformatting,” signals a recalibration of how...
For 72 hours, London's art scene became one vast, twitching organism. From Mayfair's white spaces to Peckham's railway arches dripping with condensation, every gallery door swung open in ragged synchrony. This wasn't just an open house - it was the city taking its...
New York, May 12, 2025 – Frieze New York wrapped its 2025 edition at The Shed on Sunday, cementing its reputation as a premier destination for contemporary art with strong sales, a dynamic international audience, and critically acclaimed programming. The fair...
Global auction giants Christie's and Sotheby's reported a combined decrease of over 13%, with total sales reaching $14.2 billion in 2023 compared to $16.4 billion in the previous year. Christie's experienced a notable 20% decline, seeing its total sales plummet from...
In the shifting landscape of the digital realm, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) emerged as a possible revolutionary force, reshaping how we perceive and engage with art, culture, and even ownership in the virtual world. Several well-known artists, including Damien Hirst,...
AI has been all over the papers lately. It has even prompted Government intervention on both sides of the pond. Like some kind of incurable virus or toxic cloud of our own making, the threat is much ado about nothing... If only the powers that be would take climate...
The 2023 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong finished yesterday with optimistic sales reports and a sigh of relief at the return of pre-COVID attendance figures. The fair was the largest edition since 2019, attracting an international attendance of 86,000 across the five...
Adonis Real and Adam Titcher, both prominent Yuga Lab NFT collectors, have filed a class-action lawsuit with the Federal Central District Court of California alleging that Yuga Labs paid celebrities like Madonna and Justin Bieber to endorse their products while making...