The NYTimes Isn’t Worried About Museums, Dealers and Auction Houses Getting Too Close at Their Own Event: You can join the New York Times’s art market reporters, Scott Reyburn and Robin Pogrebin; along with Tobias Meyer, Thaddaeus Ropac, Glenn Lowry and Daniel Weiss; and some auction house luminaries right before Berlin’s Gallery Weekend in late April, 2018. The Art Leaders Network event is part of the Times’s conference business which held a less market-oriented event in Doha last March. …

Nicolai Fechin Gets a Boost By Moving from American Category to Russian Art: Colin Gleadell reports on the £3.6m sale of a Nicolai Fechin painting that was included in the London Russian art sales instead of the American sales despite Fechin having spent much of his career in the US. No longer the major events they once were, the Russian sales were nevertheless up 132% to £38m in total. …

Ariel Foxman Shows His Walls: The Times visits the former InStyle editor’s appartment to see his Wesselmann, Mapplethorpes and Ryan McGuinness skateboard deck.