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Clara Bennett

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Clara Bennett covers Art News, Reviews and Accessibility.

Articles by Clara Bennett

Apple Music Gives Artists More Profile Control, but the Review Queue and the Fine Print Set the Terms

Clara Bennett

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How to Read an Auction Result Like the Trade Does: From Estimate to Premium

Clara Bennett

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Global Art Sales Fell 4 Percent to $65 Billion in 2023: Art Basel–UBS Report

Clara Bennett

How Art Criticism Gets Its Pictures: Open Access, Fair Use, and the Living-Artist Problem

How Art Criticism Gets Its Pictures: Open Access, Fair Use, and the Living-Artist Problem

Clara Bennett

An auction gavel resting atop a rising staircase built from percentage signs, set against a muted gallery-wall backdrop, evoking the steadily climbing buyer's premium.

How the Buyer's Premium Works at Art Auctions, and Why It Keeps Climbing

Clara Bennett

What a Hammer Price Really Costs: Buyer's Premiums, Seller Terms, and the Fees Auction Houses Don't Advertise

What a Hammer Price Really Costs: Buyer's Premiums, Seller Terms, and the Fees Auction Houses Don't Advertise

Clara Bennett

How Buyer's Premiums Work in Art Auctions, and Why Sotheby's Just Raised Its Rates

How Buyer's Premiums Work in Art Auctions, and Why Sotheby's Just Raised Its Rates

Clara Bennett

Chart of a work's documented record thickening across decades of exhibitions

Why Exhibition Catalogues Matter: How Documentation Builds — and Sometimes Becomes — an Artwork's Market History

Clara Bennett

Officials signing repatriation papers beside catalogued ancient artifacts

Manhattan DA Returns 657 Antiquities to India in the Largest Single Repatriation of 2026

Clara Bennett

Appraiser and collector examining a bronze sculpture under gallery light

Art Appraisal Explained: Who Values Your Collection, How USPAP Works and Why the Insurance Number Isn't the Sales Number

Clara Bennett

Timeline chart of 2026 New York museum building openings and expansions

New York's Summer Museum Calendar Gets a Rare New Building: The Tang Wing Opens June 18

Clara Bennett

Red sold dots beside small framed works on a fair booth wall

How to Walk an Art Fair: Sections, Stands and the Questions Worth Asking a Dealer Before You Buy

Clara Bennett

Chart of artist market value stepping up around a museum survey

Museum Surveys and Retrospectives: How the Big Shows Are Built and What They Do to an Artist's Market

Clara Bennett

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How the Biennale Format Works: Venice's Model, the Curator's Bet, and What Critics Actually Measure

Clara Bennett

Auction house staff taking phone bids during a busy evening sale

Christie's and Sotheby's End 2025 Up, but the Rebound Was Narrower Than It Looks

Clara Bennett