ART
Marion Maneker
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August 15, 2025
Aboriginal Art’s Second Coming
After decades of well-meaning but market-dampening regulations, Australian Aboriginal artists like Emily Kam Kngwarray are finding their true value. It just so happens that we’re in the middle of an Indigenous art boomlet that may portend another frenzy of interest.
The Hottest Artists in the Middle Market
Since the most active sector of the art market lately has been the sales below $1 million, ARTDAI has given us a look at the action at the smaller auction houses: Rockwell and Abercrombie predominate, and collectors keep searching for overlooked value.
Marion Maneker
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August 12, 2025
The New New Haven Thing
The Yale School of Art has launched the careers of many famous artists. Now its dean is on a mission to make sure the art students don’t have to take on debt.
Julie Brener Davich
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August 10, 2025
Drive to Survive
Several of the world’s most collectible cars are coming up for auction this week in Monterey, including onetime owner Larry Ellison’s McLaren, estimated at $23 million, a 1961 Ferrari Spider (also at least $20 million), and a rare yellow Ferrari F50 once owned by Ralph Lauren.
Marion Maneker
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August 8, 2025
Pearlman’s Wisdom
Henry and Rose Pearlman’s grandson has developed an innovative plan to exit their collection from Princeton and divvy up the works across the country on a rotating basis. It may provide an economic and community-engagement model for foundations to follow.
The Top 50 Artists of the Year… So Far
A deep dive into ARTDAI’s top 50 lists for the first half of the year, which reinforces the notion that buyers are turning toward historical and undervalued works.
Marion Maneker
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August 5, 2025
The Karpidas Market Bailout
The octogenarian collector, famous for collecting “in depth,” is emptying out her London home and selling an estimated $80 million worth of art and design. She once helped bail out the art market after the financial crisis. Can she do it again?
Julie Brener Davich
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August 3, 2025
The Rise of Wearable Art
Artists from Lalanne to Picasso have made jewelry, sometimes as one-offs for friends and lovers, sometimes in larger numbers. Now, the niche field of artists’ jewelry is hitting its stride among buyers who might not splurge on a painting, but can spring for a pendant.
Marion Maneker
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August 1, 2025
Luca Guadagnino’s Art World Crossover
The acclaimed director is a favorite collaborator of actors like Julia Roberts, Timothée Chalamet, and Zendaya, but he also draws inspiration from painters like Giorgio Morandi, David Hockney, and Michaël Borremans. And he’s even cast his art dealer in his latest film.
Condition Report: Randall Suffolk, Director of Atlanta’s High Museum
As museums have recalibrated to ride out the MAGA storm, Suffolk has made it imperative to diversify the High Museum’s audiences and offerings—and to embrace Atlanta’s unique history and strengths.
Julie Brener Davich
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July 29, 2025
Jane’s Addiction
News and notes on the aftershocks from the $10.1 million Birkin prototype sale at Sotheby’s Paris and the state of the secondary “quota” bag market.
Julie Brener Davich
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July 27, 2025
Gehry’s Boy From Biloxi
Unheralded during his lifetime, ceramicist George Ohr later drew praise from museum curators (and Warhol and Johns) for his abstract expressionist teapots and vases. This week, several of his works from the Donald Hecht collection are up for auction.
Marion Maneker
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July 25, 2025
Paris Is Turning
The French art world is checked out for the summer, and its attention has already turned toward the fall, where Paris has a lineup of exhibitions—from George Condo to Richter—and a new home for the Fondation Cartier in time for October’s Art Basel.
WAG the Art Market
The merger of Winston Art Group with Artory is a possible step toward the greater financialization of art. But will art ever really be an “asset”?
Marion Maneker
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July 22, 2025
The Phillips Fee Screwdriver
As auction houses look to regain their mojo by tweaking pricing and structures, Phillips has announced a true potential game-changer—a triple whammy that increases the buyer’s premium, offers a discount to early bidders, and previews intent. So… will it work?
Julie Brener Davich
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July 20, 2025
JARheads
Luxury sales at the auction houses have grown exponentially as a percentage of their global business in the past few years, just as prices for fine and decorative arts have fallen. Jewelry, in particular, is performing exceptionally well.
Marion Maneker
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July 18, 2025
Beauford Delaney, Renaissance Man
Beauford Delaney’s big, brightly colored works forged his identity as an artist, and not just another expat friend of James Baldwin and Georgia O’Keeffe. Now, a sweeping exhibition of his work at the Drawing Center shows the remarkable range of an underappreciated great American artist.