ART
Marion Maneker
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July 30, 2024
Who Will Save Your Marisol?
In the 1960s, Marisol held the art world in the palm of her hand. Laconic, witty, and wealthy, her shows attracted long lines and crowds. At the height of her fame, she walked away, but never stopped making art.
Marion Maneker
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July 28, 2024
A Rust Belt Retrospective
A $230 million expansion of Buffalo’s groundbreaking fine art museum has anchored the city’s revival—offering a blueprint for other once-great American hubs looking to overlay a cosmopolitan future on a broad-shouldered past.
Marion Maneker
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July 21, 2024
The End of the Art World’s Arb Era
Why is the art market down so much in volume when other markets haven’t seen the same drop? One explanation might be the billions of dollars in art loans that are now being reversed in our high-interest rate environment.
Marion Maneker
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July 16, 2024
The Art Market’s Year of Magical Thinking
Auction totals are down a jarring 25 percent from the first half of last year. But new data from ARTDAI, which contextualizes the results with sales from the past decade, suggests we’ve been here before—a couple times.
Marion Maneker
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July 14, 2024
The Auction House Paris Olympics
Amid the political turnovers in England and France, the shift in emphasis from London to Paris as Europe’s leading art center is gaining momentum.
Marion Maneker
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July 9, 2024
Yo Mary Cassatt!
Philadelphia, which eschews its reputation as a blue-collar sixth borough, is actually a sneaky-great art city. And never more so than now.
Marion Maneker
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July 7, 2024
Art’s Endless Summer
In an incestuous business where your friends are your clients and your clients think you’re their friend, the art world has figured out how to blend the intra-season travel schedule with the reality that the hustle never ends.
Marion Maneker
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July 2, 2024
The Art Market Bank Run Theory
Art advisor Jacob King offers a thesis that absolutely no one wants to hear: After a decade of collectors entering the market with an “investment mindset,” the inevitable high prices that have resulted seem to have choked off the market. So what happens if everyone decides to head for the exits all at once?
Marion Maneker
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June 30, 2024
A Picasso Surprise & The Basquiat Boom
The June sales in London are in the midst of being downgraded. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a thing or two from the tepid results, which show the market is still bottoming. Plus, a preview of the Old Master sales.
Marion Maneker
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June 25, 2024
Little Britain Sales
A preview of the Phillips and Christie’s London sales, including a number of important works that may define—or rewrite—the narrative coalescing around the current art market.
Marion Maneker
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June 23, 2024
London Art Fog
The London sales may not have headline lots, but there are still plenty of opportunities for surprises… and this market sure needs surprises.
Marion Maneker
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June 18, 2024
Loic Gouzer’s Imaginary Collection
What’s the solution to the art market’s demand doldrums? If you ask Loic Gouzer, it’s a “conviction-based auction house.” A look at how his business, Fair Warning, is succeeding where the rest of the market is struggling.
Marion Maneker
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June 16, 2024
Basel’s New Money & A Gagosian Ouster
Behind the usual scrum of buyers and sellers, a pair of dueling narrative vie to define Basel and the broader market. Also: inside the executive shakeup at the world’s most enigmatic gallery.
Marion Maneker
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June 11, 2024
Portraits of the Young Artists…
According to proprietary ARTDAI data, we’ve reached the downcycle in the sales of work by emerging artists—further proof, perhaps, that the forthcoming art market revival will coalesce around more prominent historical figures.
Marion Maneker
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June 9, 2024
The Traveling Art Circus Arrives in Basel
The art market isn’t in as much trouble as everyone seems to suggest. It just isn’t generating much excitement. This week, the big money crowd arrives in Basel. Will they find anything to make them open their checkbooks?
Marion Maneker
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June 4, 2024
Is Basquiat the New Picasso?
In both New York and Hong Kong last month, Jean-Michel displaced the Spanish master as the new benchmark for the art world. For years, the artist’s market—driven via headline-inducing purchases by the likes of Ken Griffin and Jho Low—seemed to have exceeded real collector demand. Now that’s all changing.
Marion Maneker
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June 2, 2024
Wool Beyond Words
An unconventionally staged show of Christopher Wool’s work may reset the market for the artist and better frame his career in the contemporary marketplace.