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Auction Results Explained: What Hammer Prices Really Mean
The hammer price is the winning bid; buyer's premiums, seller commissions and United States resale law decide who actually keeps the money.
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The running news file for contemporary art: representation announcements, biennial and prize lists, acquisitions, curatorial appointments, fair schedules and space closures. Entries are dated, short and sourced. For people working in the field who need the week's changes without a magazine essay attached.
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What Art Critics Actually Do When They Review a Show
Art critics look, describe, and judge. Here is what actually happens when a critic reviews a show, from first notes to published review.
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Monument Maker to the President: Steven Barber's Bronze Record of American Leadership
From the White House Rose Garden to the U.S. Naval Academy, one Santa Monica filmmaker has made it his job to put American presidents in bronze.
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Why the VMAs Matter to People Who Care About Visual Art
This year's Video Music Awards turn the camera around and honor the artists behind it.
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Why New York's Mural Boom Pays Everyone Except the Painters
NYC's street-art economy runs on exposure and licensing deals while the painters see a fraction of it — a look at how the money actually moves through the walls.
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How New York Artists Register to Legally Sell Their Own Work
Selling a painting out of a Bushwick studio triggers the same state sales tax rules as a Chelsea gallery sale — here is what New York actually requires before that first transaction.
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How New York City Actually Hands Out Public Art Commissions
Percent for Art, the MTA, Parks, and DOT each pay artists differently — or make them pay. A practical map of the four public routes, the panels that decide, and the costs nobody advertises.
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How New York City's Percent for Art Law Pays Working Artists
A 1983 city law quietly requires New York to spend on original art every time it builds a school, firehouse, or rec center — and the process has paid out more than $65 million to working artists, with real fights along the way.
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Supreme Court Declines AI Art Copyright Case
The Court's March 2 order in Thaler v. Perlmutter keeps the human-authorship rule standing — protection for handmade work, open season on machine-only output, and no answers on training data.
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What Deaccessioning Fights Mean for Museums
Every few years a museum announces it will sell collection works, and the art world erupts — here is what deaccessioning actually is, what the rules allow, and why living artists have real money on the line.