ART
Marion Maneker
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May 13, 2025
A Riggio Too Far
There were some pockets of spirited bidding at Christie’s for works from the Leonard and Louise Riggio collection and Anne Bass’s estate. And yet the well-managed and heavily guaranteed sale revealed the market’s cautious mood.
Julie Brener Davich
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May 11, 2025
Magritte Deal Heat
The surrealist moment goes on, for those who are not so keen on reality these days. There are several works at the auctions, but you can also catch a variety of both famous and lesser-known artists at galleries around the city.
Marion Maneker
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May 9, 2025
Zwirner Expands the Mothership
With a new 19th Street space and growing office imprint on 20th, David Zwirner is expanding his claim on Chelsea and offering a glimpse of his global ambitions. Two new shows—the elusive, devastating Michael Armitage, and a group exhibition of ’90s phenoms—mark the occasion.
Condition Report: Charles Moffett
The gallerist explains how he got started after his tenure at Sotheby’s, what it’s like dealing with tariffs, why art advisors are the unsung heroes of the art world, and what to make of the (slight) upside to the downturn.
Marion Maneker
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May 6, 2025
Don’t Mess With Textiles
Textiles are having a moment as a valid art form. A new Olga de Amaral retrospective in Miami is a festival of technical skill that puts her fabrics, in the words of ICA Miami’s director, “somewhere between painting and sculpture.”
Marion Maneker
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May 4, 2025
George Lucas’s Jedi Art Trick
For more than 15 years, George Lucas has been quietly building a museum of narrative art, whatever that is. What the museum seems to lack in cohesion and transparency, it makes up for in ego, with its founder’s ultimate mission being to put his movies on par with other art-historical masterpieces.
Marion Maneker
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May 2, 2025
Thursday Night Lights
What’s going down uptown? Plenty, including Basquiat, Picasso, Franz Kline, Ilana Savdie, Miquel Barceló, and more.
May Day
Tensions are building in the art market over tariffs and other uncertainties, right in time for the May auction sales. Will they set off a flight to quality—or a retreat from unnecessary expense?
Marion Maneker
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April 29, 2025
John Chamberlain’s Car Karma
The artist best known for assemblages of crushed car parts has never had a market commensurate with his reputation. That may start to change, thanks to some new tactics by his estate.
Julie Brener Davich
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April 27, 2025
A Fair for the “Working Rich”
Expo Chicago features lower prices compared to other Frieze-branded fairs, but it functions as a catalyst and convener for the local arts community.
Marion Maneker
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April 25, 2025
The New Sargents in Town
In the decade leading to his scandalous and triumphant Portrait of Madame X, the twentysomething expat portraitist made the very most of the city’s salon society scene. A new exhibit at the Met, Sargent and Paris, captures a young artist’s decade in Paris at its peak.
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.