For this week, a special edition…

With January just around the corner, you know what time it is across every province in pundit land: prediction season. But before I join the most courageous, foolhardy, and/or shameless of my keyboard-toting colleagues in guessing what next year has in store for my beat, it’s time to deliver on a pledge I made along with my 2018 prognostications: namely, to go back and assess how those prognostications held up at year’s end.

This week, stories that show “either/or” should sometimes be “yes/and”…

This week, reflecting on another south Florida art gauntlet…

For this edition, thoughts on what was, to me, the biggest gallery news of the week…

This week, adding crucial context to a non-auction development…

This week, some opinionated detective work on a late-breaking auction development…

This week, three stories about the art industry’s predilection for the past…

For this edition, three thoughts on the most dumbfounding story of the week…

This week, testing the ties that may (or may not) bind high art to high finance…

This week, stories about the messy realities of corporate arts cash…