The Gray Market | Tim Schneider | Substack Mapping the forces shaping the business of contemporary art, from inside and out. Click to read The Gray Market, by Tim Schneider, a Substack publication.

Had a good chat with @thegraymarket.bsky.social about whether nonprofit hostile takeovers are a thing.

Now I'll be looking for places to drop the phrase "skeleton key to a kleptocratic hellscape" into casual convos.

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Dealwashing and the overlooked costs of Trump 2.0 An uptick in art sales may not offset the operational damage to sellers

Had to push back against this narrative that Trump is automatically going to be great for the art market thegraymarket.substack.com/p/dealwashin...

Nosferatu and A Complete Unknown both open on Dec 25th: it’s going to be a BOBFERATU Christmas

Art Basel makes its big AI move 8 lessons from test-driving the fair’s new in-app chatbot

Spent four days drilling Art Basel’s new chatbot and have the screen caps to prove it
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I’m having trouble pinpointing how, exactly, but there is a certain type of Miami dude that combines the worst aspects of a certain type of LA dude and a certain type of NY dude

Galleries: for the love of all you hold dear, if you’re sending a representation announcement, a photo of *the artist’s work* >>>>>> a photo of the artist. I will die on this hill

Meet art fraud's covert enemy: government-paid whistleblowers Federal programs that reward informants with recovered money could help purify the art trade—if insiders are ready to make their own careers radioactive

Wrote about how the govt has paid whistleblower programs and no one in the art market knows they could be selling out bad actors for big money (but prob detonating their careers too) thegraymarket.substack.com/p/meet-art-f...

Tbh I would pay $6.2m just to avoid all the banana puns jfc

Trust me Tali even the men do not want to think about what goes on in there

How many social networks can I join before I die challenge