ART
Julie Brener Davich
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June 29, 2025
Old Masters, New Tricks
London is gearing up for a week of spectacular Old Masters and unusual antique sales, as the market digests a new anti-trafficking rule—provenance matters now more than ever—and strives for new heights.
Marion Maneker
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June 27, 2025
The Art Advisor Avengers
As more and more art changes hands privately, a group of top advisors are forming a collective to help manage the global demands of larger collections. And they’re all keeping their day jobs.
Basel or Bust…
The thrill is gone at what used to be one of the art market’s most storied and exclusive gatherings, as die-hard collectors stay away, preferring to conduct business in private.
Marion Maneker
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June 24, 2025
The Book of Matsuyama
Tomokazu Matsuyama, the Japanese transplant who is running a small cultural enterprise out of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is enjoying an ascendant market for his wry, textured, and homage-filled interpretation of the modern American experience.
Julie Brener Davich
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June 22, 2025
“Freedom Documents” Aren’t Free
They’re actually worth many millions, and the market is heating up as the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday. On Thursday, Sotheby’s is selling rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution—both of them signed by Abraham Lincoln, himself.
Marion Maneker
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June 20, 2025
London, Underground
While it’s tempting to look at last week’s Art Basel and the upcoming London fair as quiet and unremarkable, you’d be missing the deal flow humming just below the surface. The top of the market isn’t completely frozen—it’s just more discreet, and there’s plenty of exceptional work changing hands.
Lords of Art Finance
With $1 trillion of art in private hands, and only 5 percent of it leveraged, the art market is nowhere near as liquid as other asset classes. A new art-secured lender, backed by the Nahmads and selling discretion, aims to change that.
Marion Maneker
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June 17, 2025
Hustle & Dealflow in Basel
In recent years, Art Basel in Paris stole some of its thunder, but O.G. Basel is having a micro-resurgence. Early reports suggest that there’s money on the ground, but not a lot of urgency.
Julie Brener Davich
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June 15, 2025
Who Let the Dags Out?
Christie’s sale of a vast collection of rare daguerreotypes, including a portrait thought to be of John Wilkes Booth, evokes the artistry and mystery that’s been lost in the digital age.
Julie Brener Davich
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June 13, 2025
Watch Market Corrections & More Lalanne Mania
This week’s sales showed the watch market returning to pre-Covid normalcy, while the design market featured a jaw-dropping Lalanne sale, big numbers for Giacometti, and a Kaipiainen boomlet.
Condition Report: Sara Friedlander and Steve Henry
The old art-world truisms about the diverging interests of auction houses and galleries were overdue for a revamping. So I corralled Paula Cooper Gallery’s Steve Henry and Christie’s Sara Friedlander to hash things out.
Marion Maneker
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June 10, 2025
Indiana Jonesing
As pop art experiences a slow-motion return to the popular imagination, Robert Indiana has been borne along with it. A show at Pace Gallery highlights the artist’s preoccupation with the American dream, far beyond his most famous work, ‘LOVE.’
Julie Brener Davich
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June 8, 2025
Design of the Times
This week’s design auctions in New York are a mix of masterpieces by Lalanne, Giacometti, and Tiffany, and interesting works by up-and-coming designers, reflecting a desire for the unique among today’s discerning collectors.
Julie Brener Davich
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June 6, 2025
Arbus in the Age of Instagram
A huge new exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory, plus a gallery show in L.A., highlights the value of true photographic artistry in an era where everyone is wielding a camera, all the time.
A Brave Post-Neuendorf World
After ousting the founding Neuendorf family from Artnet, former Goldman partner Andrew Wolff talks about why he’s taking the digital art market platform and database company private, despite it having no profits, no growth, and a shrinking talent pool.
Marion Maneker
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June 3, 2025
The Two Popes
Alfred Pope’s Hill-Stead, teeming with works by Degas and Monet and Manet, is the Frick of New England: a privileged look into the vast wealth and groundbreaking taste of a 19th century robber baron.
Julie Brener Davich
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June 1, 2025
The Ladies Take London
Jolly old England is getting a jolt this summer from five provocative shows featuring female artists whose works challenge conventional notions of beauty and put womanhood on full display in all its unidealized glory.