The Gray Market
Tim SchneiderMapping the forces shaping the business of contemporary art, from inside and out.
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Archival Gray: Art dealers have the experience economy all wrong
- A 2016 instructional graphic on the proper placement of a youth bike helmet. Image by Bruce Blau, courtesy of Wikimedia (via Creative Commons license)
Welcome back to The Gray Market! I’m once again coming to you from an airport depar...
The art trade can't auction its way to gender parity
Expecting female artists to draw even with men in auction metrics misses a larger point about equity, data from ArtTactic indicates.
Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash
What happened inside the Artsy-Artnet merger? TGM Investigates!
A deeply sourced, behind-the-scenes look into one of the biggest art business consolidations in years.
Welcome to the latest edition of The Gray Market Investigates™️, a monthly study—strictly for paid subscribers—of a subject in the art o...
Sorry, but Pace’s cutbacks aren’t the death of mega-galleries
- This is the only time anyone will probably ever equate one of the world’s leading galleries to a sheet ghost in a field, but here we are. Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash
We humans suck at many things, but understanding the speed of mea...
Lighting up the old habit of auction extremes
- Multiple views of a circa 1971 pack of Sotheby’s Special Reserve cigarettes, featuring the company’s logo and the facade of its New Bond Street building in London, from an online sale catalog of Thomas Heneage Fine Art Books
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