ART
Marion Maneker
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March 11, 2025
An Eggleston to Dye For
An auction at Phillips offers a rare collection of William Eggleston prints, made with an arcane and all-but-extinct process to amp up the vividness of everyday life.
Julie Brener Davich
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March 9, 2025
The Watchwomen
The women’s watch journalist behind Dimepiece is changing the stuffy collecting community—what women wear and how they wear it—while helping to reshape the industry, itself.
Julie Brener Davich
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March 7, 2025
Revolt of the Ultra-Contemporaries
When two ascendent artists showed up on the front page of the Times as examples of a young art market collapse, they decided to rally together, offering their generation a little more agency in a ruthless, unforgiving system.
Signs of an Art Market Recovery
Buyers remain wary and sellers are greedy, but the latest New York sales hint at a new reality: We’re still far away from the 2022 boom times, sure, but palmy days lie ahead.
Julie Brener Davich
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March 4, 2025
Saunders Spring
Sotheby’s has set its most valuable Old Masters auction ever for May: the Saunders collection, the product of a four-year buying spree fueled by Wall Street money, which could fetch more than $80 million.
Marion Maneker
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March 2, 2025
A Very British Auction Season
The U.K.’s auction season previews what’s to come across the pond and for the rest of the year. After perusing the lots, there are some green shoots, yes, but also some notes of caution.
Marion Maneker
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February 28, 2025
A Brave Neuendorf World
Artnet’s 14-hour, Jerry Springer-esque annual general meeting left the company more gutted than ever, and neutered the ruling Neuendorf clan. The only certainty for the beleaguered company is that this shitshow will play on.
Condition Report: Guillaume Cerutti of Christie’s, Part I
The outgoing C.E.O. and new chairman of the board at Christie’s talks teamwork, profits, and, of course, the major reorg he undertook during his eight years at the helm.
Marion Maneker
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February 26, 2025
Estimating the Christie’s Riggio Auction
This May, Christie’s will auction the $250 million collection of Len Riggio, the late founder of the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. The first seven pieces revealed from the collection—which is filled with historical work—offer clues about the estimates and what the sale could mean for the broader market.
Julie Brener Davich
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February 23, 2025
A Modest Midseason Auction Report
Fewer lots define the auction houses’ in-between season of postwar and contemporary art. But, as always, a handful of standout works—by Mitchell, Condo, Dubuffet, Ruscha, Haring and others—raise the stakes.
Marion Maneker
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February 21, 2025
Frieze Your Mind
Frieze week in L.A. has everything we love about the city itself—fresh, energetic works, attention-seeking hipsters, and poolside pop-ups. So what if it doesn’t always fit into a nice, neat art market narrative?
Condition Report: Howard Rachofsky and Thomas Hartland-Mackie
An inside look at The Warehouse, the Dallas exhibition space fusing two collectors—and two generations—to create a hybrid experiential and educational platform to engage with the public.
Julie Brener Davich
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February 18, 2025
Abercrombie & Rich
Demand for Gertrude Abercrombie, a lesser known surrealist, has gotten a boost in recent years as collectors bid up works in the genre. Industry insiders say her market still has room to grow.
Marion Maneker
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February 16, 2025
Kennedy Center Conspiracies
The MAGA vibe shift has come for public institutions, and museums are emerging as the next target. Will the mood truly impact the way identity art is valued in the culture? Or has the market already moved on?
Marion Maneker
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February 14, 2025
The Myth of the Mega Advisory
The art advisor business, always a boutique concern, has not kept pace with the growth of mega-galleries and global auction houses. The obstacles speak volumes about the quirks of scaling a very white glove business.
Condition Report: Alice Gray Stites’s Art of Hospitality
A discussion with the top curator of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson’s boutique museum-hotel chain, about the importance of bringing art to the public and the complicated logistics of their hybrid hospitality business.
Marion Maneker
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February 11, 2025
Friedrich Through Trump-Colored Glasses
The Met’s new show of echt German romanticist Caspar David Friedrich, whom Hitler co-opted for fascist appeal, raises some interesting questions about our cultural moment. Is Friedrich, the progenitor of a style now more familiar in comic books than art history books, worth taking seriously?