ART
The Boetti ‘Aerei’ Arbitrage
Boetti is a complex artist with an even more intricate market structure. But Ben Brown thinks his works on paper will benefit from other, more lucrative segments of his oeuvre.
Marion Maneker
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March 25, 2025
Art Basel’s Hong Kong Litmus Test
Instead of kicking off what ought to be a season of excitement for the island city, the increasingly attenuated market conditions in Asia (and the United States) are turning Art Basel into a soft launch for Hong Kong’s new look.
Marion Maneker
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March 23, 2025
Condition Report: Guillaume Cerutti of Christie’s, Part II
The auction house’s outgoing C.E.O. sits down to talk about his new role as head of François Pinault’s 10,000-work art collection, and how he’ll integrate one man’s vision into the luxury commercial interests of Groupe Artemis.
Julie Brener Davich
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March 21, 2025
Going Dutch
The Netherlands’ annual European Fine Art Foundation fair has been plagued by brazen jewel heists, leadership churn, and its distinction as an early Covid superspreader. None of that makes it any less remarkable or irreplaceable.
Condition Report: Anne Kraybill’s Art-Mart
The Art Bridges Foundation’s C.E.O. talks matchmaking for art institutions, particularly at a time when 95 percent of the country’s works are sitting in storage. How can (well-capitalized) regional museums play a crucial role?
Marion Maneker
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March 18, 2025
Zwirner’s Bauhaus Money
Two shows offer a vision of accelerating art market trends through the works of Léon Spilliaert, and the chummy Bauhaus trio of Anni and Josef Albers and Paul Klee.
Marion Maneker
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March 16, 2025
Asia Week Preview: South Asia Resurgent, China Recumbent
The market for Indian art is booming again. Plus, samurai swords, great waves, and porcelain.
Julie Brener Davich
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March 14, 2025
The Art World’s Night Out
Inside New York’s grandest example of midcentury modernism, as Art Production Fund celebrated its 25th anniversary with a semi-risqué slumber party that coaxed the art and fashion worlds to get into bed together.
London Falling
A lack of high-value lots, and some misplaced optimism, led to a 56 percent sales plunge since 2022, but a solid hammer ratio and strong sell-through rate point to underlying health.
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.