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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Marion Maneker
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January 13, 2026
Sex & The Single Artist
A career-spanning new exhibit of Joan Semmel captures an artist challenging conventional nudes, addressing women’s liberation, and making her own depictions of sexuality, aging, and herself.
Marion Maneker
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January 11, 2026
Washington’s Other Culture Wars
The Stars We Do Not See, a new show at the National Gallery, offers a reflection on the past and modernism that seems perfectly at home in the capital these days.
Marion Maneker
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January 9, 2026
The Art-Backed Loan Crisis That Wasn’t
A recent column in the Financial Times tried to sound the alarm about an apparent crisis in the art loan business. But a close inspection of the data behind the story—and a survey of art loan business insiders—reveals a much more nuanced picture.
Is the Art Market Ready for a Bull Run?
With $5.4 billion in combined sales, 2025 was a pretty decent year for Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Christie’s, as well as the broader auction market. But a deeper analysis of sales across price ranges, average lot values, and the percentage of works sold below estimate may foretell what 2026 brings.
Marion Maneker
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January 6, 2026
A Match Made in Buenos Aires
How a family of Swiss industrialists helped deepen and redefine Argentina’s premier art museum, years after their deaths.
Marion Maneker
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January 4, 2026
Kaws and Effect
After Covid zombified downtown San Francisco, SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford turned to an artist with a Warholian grasp of pop culture—and the ability to reengage both families and the tech set.
Marion Maneker
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December 23, 2025
Charlie’s Angels
It’s been a monumental year for Sotheby’s, which secured nearly $1 billion from the Emiratis, sold the Macklowe and Lauder collections, and made a new home on Madison Avenue. C.E.O. Charles Stewart sits down for a candid discussion about his auction house’s big year and the emerging Gulf market.
Marion Maneker
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December 21, 2025
Helene of Finland
The new Helene Schjerfbeck show at the Met offers a rare opportunity to see the work of a truly important artist, whose significance was obscured only by the fact that she lived in a small country far from the center of culture.
Marion Maneker
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December 19, 2025
Art’s $14B Goldilocks Year
In the space of a few short months, we’ve seen the public art market return not only to viability, but vibrancy—even if we’re only just returning to a baseline level of sales.
Condition Report: Jay Krehbiel, the Man in the Middle
Freeman’s, the ambitious Midwest auction house, is conquering the middle market between multimillion-dollar auctions and weekend estate sales. Herewith, executive chairman Jay Krehbiel opens up about his M&A pathway, the economics of undercutting the big houses, and the tension between operating locally and globally.