The Gray Market
The Gray Market | Why contemporary dealers and collectors are monitoring an antitrust lawsuit over Birkin bags
Hermès's alleged sale strategy for the in-demand bags parallels dealers' waiting list policies, but legal experts are sceptical of the lawsuit's merits
The Gray Market: Anyone wrestling with money's influence on art has 800 years of company
A show at the Morgan Library & Museum traces the modern economy's emergence in the Middle Ages—and how it influenced art from the start
The Gray Market: Our art market soothsayer looks back on his 2023 predictions
How did his forecasts weather the roughest turbulence the trade has experienced in years? Read on to find out
The 1973 Scull auction was a harbinger of today's market, but its meaning is still misunderstood
Fifty years later, history suggests the infamous sale from the collection of Robert and Ethel Scull is not quite the art market precedent it is remembered as
Prints and multiples may finally be ready for the market spotlight—it only took a few hundred years of confusion
The latest edition of the IFPDA Print Fair in New York and a slew of moves by mega-galleries look set to reshape this long-overlooked category
Art fraud has hijacked the conversation again, but calls for stronger regulation miss the bigger picture
Is regulation a wonder drug for curing the art market of its chronic fraud problem? Our columnist explains why that thinking is a myth