Superchunk, the North Carolina-based rock band at the core of the independent record label Merge, has launched an auction on Paddle8 to raise funds for Planned Parenthood. On offer are a set of…
Days after it was reported that a dozen staffers at online auction house Paddle8 had left or been laid off following the company’s merger with Auctionata, two more senior staffers will be leaving the…
Signaling that the once-scrappy online art market is maturing, two of the field’s most prominent start-ups, Auctionata and Paddle8, have announced that they will merge. The deal between the two…
Online auction house Paddle8 has hired Stefany Morris as head of fine art auctions. Morris will oversee all of Paddle8’s for-profit auctions of modern art, contemporary art, photography, prints, and…
Online art-auction service Paddle8 announced today that it has raised $34 million in Series C funding, the third round of investments raised during the early stages of a company. With the new round…
Jerry Saltz answers a round of “Would You Rather” with Paddle8. In response to “Would you rather… be under house arrest for a week inside Prada Marfa with Donald Trump as your "cell mate" OR not be…
In its latest Market Note, Skate’s notes that Berlin-based online art trading platform Auctionata published its 2014 results, rising to the number-one spot ahead of peers like Paddle8, Christie's…
Included are half a dozen photos and prints by Andy Warhol; fashion photos by Terry O'Neill, Patrick Demarchelier and Mario Testino; and work by younger art stars like Nate Lowman, Josh Smith and Dan…
Best optical illusion, best cat, and other highlights that linger in the mind and the brain after five days of fair-going
New York-based art e-commerce firm VIP Art has laid off 50 percent of its staff. The company had employed a dozen people, half of whom were let go at the beginning of this month, according to a compan…
