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THE LATEST ARTICLES
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.
Marion Maneker
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May 9, 2025
Zwirner Expands the Mothership
With a new 19th Street space and growing office imprint on 20th, David Zwirner is expanding his claim on Chelsea and offering a glimpse of his global ambitions. Two new shows—the elusive, devastating Michael Armitage, and a group exhibition of ’90s phenoms—mark the occasion.
Condition Report: Charles Moffett
The gallerist explains how he got started after his tenure at Sotheby’s, what it’s like dealing with tariffs, why art advisors are the unsung heroes of the art world, and what to make of the (slight) upside to the downturn.
Marion Maneker
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May 6, 2025
Don’t Mess With Textiles
Textiles are having a moment as a valid art form. A new Olga de Amaral retrospective in Miami is a festival of technical skill that puts her fabrics, in the words of ICA Miami’s director, “somewhere between painting and sculpture.”
Marion Maneker
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May 4, 2025
George Lucas’s Jedi Art Trick
For more than 15 years, George Lucas has been quietly building a museum of narrative art, whatever that is. What the museum seems to lack in cohesion and transparency, it makes up for in ego, with its founder’s ultimate mission being to put his movies on par with other art-historical masterpieces.
Marion Maneker
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May 2, 2025
Thursday Night Lights
What’s going down uptown? Plenty, including Basquiat, Picasso, Franz Kline, Ilana Savdie, Miquel Barceló, and more.
May Day
Tensions are building in the art market over tariffs and other uncertainties, right in time for the May auction sales. Will they set off a flight to quality—or a retreat from unnecessary expense?
Marion Maneker
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April 29, 2025
John Chamberlain’s Car Karma
The artist best known for assemblages of crushed car parts has never had a market commensurate with his reputation. That may start to change, thanks to some new tactics by his estate.
Marion Maneker
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April 25, 2025
The New Sargents in Town
In the decade leading to his scandalous and triumphant Portrait of Madame X, the twentysomething expat portraitist made the very most of the city’s salon society scene. A new exhibit at the Met, Sargent and Paris, captures a young artist’s decade in Paris at its peak.
