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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Marion Maneker
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June 3, 2025
The Two Popes
Alfred Pope’s Hill-Stead, teeming with works by Degas and Monet and Manet, is the Frick of New England: a privileged look into the vast wealth and groundbreaking taste of a 19th century robber baron.
Marion Maneker
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May 30, 2025
Art Rich as Rockefeller
When it opened more than 40 years ago, the Rockefeller Wing was a seismic event in the acceptance of Indigenous art’s place in the great museums of the world. Its reopening today marks a transformation in the tribal category—and an excuse to revisit an increasingly lucrative market.
Condition Report: Nicholas Acquavella and Jean-Paul Engelen
As Engelen leaves Phillips and heads over to the Acquavella gallery in July, I checked in with him and Nick Acquavella about the century-old gallery, the rise of private dealers in the current market, and the “terrifying concept,” in Nick’s words, that “no one needs what we sell.”
Marion Maneker
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May 27, 2025
La Dasha Vita
Dasha Zhukova, the collector, philanthropist, and former society It Girl, has redefined herself by reimagining the role that art can play in working-class residential life. After a successful development in Philly, she just erected a new building in Harlem—with more to come in Phoenix and Nashville.
Marion Maneker
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May 23, 2025
Merit at the Met
A wave of high-profile, years-in-the-making exhibitions offers a national counterpoint to MAGA efforts to delegitimize inclusion. As the Met’s Lorna Simpson exhibition proves, showing underrepresented artists has always been less about an artist’s identity and more about an artist’s work.
Auction Report: The Downturn Goes On
The May results were a disappointment after earlier signs of healing, with the market still shaking off the 2023 interest-rate hangover. Much of the grim news continues to concentrate at the top of the market.
Marion Maneker
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May 20, 2025
Dealers Do Doha
Art Basel’s entrée into the Gulf, which will occur in February, takes advantage of the balmy climate, the walkable downtown, and, above all, the money sloshing around Qatar, a petrostate-cum-financial center.
Marion Maneker
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May 16, 2025
The Art Market’s Hard Ceiling
The big spring sales have come to a close, leaving in their wake a distinctly unremarkable impression: Good works are selling, but there’s a limit to how high prices will go—and how far anyone is willing to stick their neck out, even for something they believe in.
Rites of Spring
Bidders at the big houses drove works by Giacometti, Munch, Olga de Amaral, Basquiat, Cézanne, de Kooning, László Moholy-Nagy, Frank Lloyd Wright, Calder, and others above estimates. Plus, a Chagall boomlet.
Marion Maneker
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May 13, 2025
A Riggio Too Far
There were some pockets of spirited bidding at Christie’s for works from the Leonard and Louise Riggio collection and Anne Bass’s estate. And yet the well-managed and heavily guaranteed sale revealed the market’s cautious mood.