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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Inside Contemporary Art’s $60M Week
The numbers are in from the Big Three auction houses’ midseason sales. What they reveal is a market steadily improving, with strong historical sales and a solid hammer ratio. One standout: the perennially third-place Phillips, which may have cracked the code on priority bidding.
Marion Maneker
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March 3, 2026
The Hugo Nathan Manifesto
The London art advisor has called for a return to “decoration”—meaning collectors buying what they want, reflective of their tastes and personality, rather than treating art as just another asset class. Will the art world listen?
Marion Maneker
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February 27, 2026
Escape From New York
Out west, the art market seems caught between two different weather systems, as the old climate sits side by side with the new. But the works surrounding the fair itself—from Sayre Gomez at Kordansky to clever juxtapositions at LACMA—also show a flourishing art scene in the city.
Condition Report: David Pollack & Calvine Harvey, Sotheby’s Old Masters Department
The Old Masters market has a new sense of energy and opportunity, with a recent migration of contemporary collectors to the category and a savvy auction house highlighting new reasons to love old paintings.
Marion Maneker
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February 24, 2026
Tip of de Gunzburg
Jean and Terry de Gunzburg are not your average Baby Boomers unloading their accumulated stuff. In fact, the offerings in their upcoming design sale—polar bear furniture by Jean Royère, cabinets by Alexandre Noll, and a complete set of Lalanne mirrors made for Yves Saint Laurent—were enough to make Sotheby’s rewrite their calendar.
Marion Maneker
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February 20, 2026
Fit to Print
The market for prints and editions is being reborn as big galleries like Zwirner and Gladstone get involved. For artists, it’s an opportunity to step out of the studio. But for indie printmakers, who face high up-front costs, the economics can be complicated.
Frankenthaler’s Monster Market
The abstract painter’s market was awakened a decade ago. Now, with a roadmap of museum shows and a selling event at Gagosian, her prices may be on the verge of a reset.
Marion Maneker
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February 17, 2026
Gotta Getta Gund
Agnes Gund, who died last September at the age of 87, was the kind of collector who raised the stature—and the prices—of any artist she collected. Now three of her prized paintings are coming to auction.
Marion Maneker
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February 13, 2026
Looking to London
A pocket guide to the most important works on sale next month in London, where major auctions by Christie’s and Sotheby’s could signal whether the market is truly on the road to recovery.
Condition Report: Anders Kold, Louisiana Museum of Art
Forty kilometers north of Copenhagen lies the unlikely host to some of the most powerful exhibitions of contemporary American artists. Kold, the curator of the Louisiana Museum, opens up about his pioneering new Basquiat show, the beauty of works on paper, and the “sauna” effect of a rural museum.
