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2 months ago | 
news.artnet.com | Sonia Manalili |Annie Armstrong
President Trump’s tariffs are continuing to draw concern from the international art industry. Anyone who does business abroad, which is pretty much everyone, is bracing for impact, and U.S. galleries with connections to China are suddenly grappling with a new state of play. Plus, the art world mourns the loss of one of its great collectors, Richard Kramlich, an early supporter of video art. And a heated debate about whether a $50 garage-sale find is a real Van Gogh work rages on.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
SHOULD THE SHOW GO ON? We are four weeks out from Los Angeles’s annual art week, when 193 galleries will participate in three fairs: the marquee Frieze Los Angeles, which has booked 101 gallerists for its tent at the Santa Monica Airport; the main satellite, Felix Art Fair, which is scheduled to have 64 exhibitors in hotel rooms and cabanas at the Hollywood Roosevelt; and the scrappy newcomer, Santa Monica Post Office, which will have 28 galleries just around the corner from Frieze.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
Douglas Chrismas, the Los Angeles art dealer who owned and operated Ace Gallery from 1961 to 2016, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Chrismas was convicted in May of three counts of embezzlement, for taking some $260,000 from Ace’s bankruptcy estate while he was acting as a trustee and custodian.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
Our weekly news roundup is an extension of Paint Drippings, which drops first in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive this in your inbox every Friday.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops. If you have a tip, email Annie Armstrong at THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED PANEL THAT WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY BORINGWelcome to 2025! We’re barely two weeks in, and thousands of acres of stunning Southern California landscape have already gone up in smoke, while our president-elect has just been formally sentenced as a felon in Manhattan. In times like these, many turn to art for solace or guidance.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
In recent days, art dealer Esther Kim Varet, the owner of the Various Small Fires gallery, which has locations in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seoul, has been informing colleagues that she plans to run for the U.S. House of Representations, while teasing an official announcement on Instagram. “Stay tuned this week—big news coming out soon,” Kim Varet wrote in an Instagram post of herself smiling wide on horseback, evoking Theodore Roosevelt or perhaps Ronald Reagan.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
Though the fine art world has its own ecosystem of celebrities, occasionally, stars from the music, movies, and television scenes will plant a flag in a different medium. The year 2024 saw a lot of cross-pollination from different creative worlds, with rock stars revealing their clandestine ceramics practices (as in Nick Cave’s case), or by an entire career in cinema being reframed as one giant fine art career (as in Miranda July’s).
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
Every now and then, aspects of the fine art world find their way into mainstream culture. It’s rare, but these crossovers are often potent for what they reveal about the art world—or about how the broader culture sees our little sphere.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Annie Armstrong
Our weekly news roundup is an extension of Paint Drippings, which drops first in The Back Room, our lively recap funneling only the week’s must-know art industry intel into a nimble read you’ll actually enjoy. Artnet News Pro members get exclusive access—subscribe now to receive this in your inbox every Friday. Art Fairs–A $4.75 million David Hammons, a $2.5 million George Condo, and a $3.5 million Yayoi Kusama are some of the seven-figure artworks that sold at Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
pynck.com | Katya Kazakina |Naomi Rea |Sonia Manalili |Annie Armstrong
What Was Different at Art Basel Miami 9th December by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · December 10, 2024Morning NewsDecember 9, 2024MarketplaceArtnet Auctions:Ndebele Abstract , 2017Artnet Auctions:Revolution (triptych), 1985Artnet Galleries:Guy Diehl, Still Life With Ilya Chashnik, 2013Artnet Galleries:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Heads, Trees and Fruit , 1892Artnet Galleries:Nathan Myhrvold, Ice Queen , 2020Artnet Galleries:Marc Chagall, The Pink Bouquet , 1980.
