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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Condition Report: Ed Dolman, Phillips Executive Chairman
The auction house leader opens up about grabbing market share from the Big Two, expanding into Asia, and the Matisse bronze sale that established Phillips as a player in contemporary.
Marion Maneker
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April 22, 2025
All About That Bass
Christie’s May sales will feature works from the collection that the late art and ballet patron Anne Bass kept in a Fort Worth house designed by Paul Rudolph. That collection, with a combined estimate of $60 million, may make for some unexpected excitement in a quiet season.
Marion Maneker
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April 20, 2025
Gagosian Plays the Hits
To mark the end of an uptown era and the revitalization of his downtown flagship, Larry Gagosian has launched exhibitions of Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning, two artists he has shown many times before.
Marion Maneker
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April 18, 2025
Roy Meets World
Roy Lichtenstein, who died in 1997, is going to have a banner couple of years, with a Sotheby’s auction in May, a Whitney retrospective next year, and tailwinds from an art market that tends to retreat to known quantities and beloved artists when surrounded by uncertainty everywhere else.
Dealer Beware
In her required-reading annual report on the art market, Clare McAndrew gathered responses from 1,600 galleries in 58 countries to convey what it’s like to be an art dealer these days. The short answer: It’s hard.
Marion Maneker
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April 15, 2025
The Marcia Marcus Bull Market
On opening night of The Human Situation, the well-heeled collectors at Lévy Gorvy Dayan were helping to drive the market’s historical turn. But works by Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh told a bigger story.
Marion Maneker
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April 13, 2025
Paris Printemps
The Paris sales totaled about $100 million, with each house selling a single-owner collection, and solid bidding for a range of artists. Maybe it’s easier for Europeans to spend money on art as the existing world order fades, but what does that signal for next month’s all-important May sales?
Marion Maneker
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April 11, 2025
Hockney’s Midnight in Paris
At 87 years old, David Hockney has the popularity and longevity to have earned another retrospective, this one at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. His market is finally catching up to his wide appeal, with volume and valuations that beg comparisons with even Picasso.
Condition Report: Jeffrey Deitch & Sara Lee Hantman
A revealing conversation with two essential gallerists about the generational shift toward integrating design and art, and why serious collectors are moving beyond just paintings on the wall.
Marion Maneker
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April 8, 2025
Democracy Ain’t Pretty
Clare McAndrew’s benchmark report on the health of the art market confirms that the value of transactions fell again in 2024 to $57.5 billion, the lowest level in four years. The number of transactions rose, though, and market activity at lower levels remains robust. This, in all its messiness, is what the democratization of the art market looks like.
