Why Wildfires and Extreme Weather Will Only Worsen Inequities in the Art World (and Other Insights)

Every Monday morning, Artnet News brings you The Gray Market. The column decodes important stories from the previous week—and offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of the art industry in the process.

This week, following the fuse from present-day threats to future ones…

FIRESTORM

On Tuesday, as wildfires continued to devour millions of acres of the US’s west coast, the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica published a harrowing thinkpiece titled “How Climate Migration Will Reshape America.” Although the arts make no more than a fleeting cameo in the text, the ecological trend lines it maps out point to dramatic implications for the art world—now and for decades to come. 

Written by Abrahm Lustgarten (with bravura photography by Meridith Kohut), the piece synthesizes reporting, statistical modeling, and data visualizations to project the myriad…