ART
Marion Maneker
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April 10, 2026
Singing Acquavella
The fabulous new Matisse exhibition at the Acquavella Galleries is a testament to the surging interest in a sometimes overlooked artist—as well as to the masterful stewardship of the Acquavella family, which created and still controls the modern Matisse market.
The Art Market’s Feminine Mystique
Achieving something close to gender parity in the art market has been an excruciatingly slow process. But as new data from our friends at ARTDAI reveals, female artists of the past 100 years are slowly but surely closing the gap.
Marion Maneker
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April 7, 2026
Philadelphia Art Fever
A sprawling two-part show celebrates the art of America—from Thomas Eakins to Barkley Hendricks—as well as the city of its birth, 250 years ago.
Marion Maneker
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April 3, 2026
Last Lichtensteins
While the New York galleries prepare for an influx of traffic around the May sales, a number of surprising shows have popped up around town.
Eastern Promises
Though still a ways off from the global art market peak of 2022, last weekend’s Hong Kong auctions showed a definite rebound: vastly improved totals, impressive sell-through rates, and signs of strength for Asian artists.
Marion Maneker
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March 31, 2026
First Impressionists
Two exceptional new exhibitions—one on the relationship between Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet, the other on Georges Seurat’s connection to the sea—invite us to reconsider three French masters.
Dan Duray
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March 29, 2026
Sho-Time
An enlightening conversation with Shohei Shigematsu, the architect behind the New Museum’s sci-fi makeover, about the challenges of building in New York and what he learned from designing the Whitney extension that wasn’t.
Marion Maneker
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March 27, 2026
Living With Minimalism for Dummies
Ahead of the $30 million Henry S. McNeil Jr. collection sale of exceptional minimalist art, Christie’s devised a clever method for showcasing what it might feel like to live with provocatively pared-down work. The question is whether buyers can see it in their homes, too.
Condition Report: Seth Johnson, Bonhams’ C.E.O.
New ownership. New H.Q. And now, Bonhams also has a new leader. Here, he opens up about the auction house’s balance sheet, integrating its global acquisitions, and winning the next generation of collectors.
Marion Maneker
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March 24, 2026
Raphael Gets the Full Met Treatment
The Met’s milestone Raphael show, which was seven years in the making and involved loans from museums including the Royal Collection and the Uffizi, documents the making of a master and puts him in his proper place among the Renaissance greats.
Dan Duray
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March 22, 2026
Jonas Wood’s Master Strokes
The L.A.-based painter who memorably captured the art of basketball has turned his attention to the bold colors and contrasts of tennis courts. Here, he explains his lifelong love of Lichtenstein (“the GOAT”) and the importance of painting what matters—which in his case includes the ATP.
Marion Maneker
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March 20, 2026
Hong Kong Garden
Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter lead an auction calendar that will provide the latest test of the art market’s long recovery—and whether the island city, where the Big Three auction houses have invested heavily to bolster their Asian footprint, is finally getting its groove back.
Condition Report: Massimiliano Gioni, The New Museum
On the eve of the downtown museum’s long-awaited rebirth, its artistic director explains the value and opportunity in its physical expansion and renewed mission to address the urgent questions of today.
Marion Maneker
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March 17, 2026
Fuhrman of the House
Glenn Fuhrman, the Wall Street banker turned art macher, hosted a late-winter opening of the Ellsworth Kelly show at the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons—along with a pregame lunch at his art-filled Sagaponack home, which could double as a museum itself.
Glenn Adamson
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March 15, 2026
Hot Hand: Rio Kobayashi
At 36, the designer Rio Kobayashi has a far-flung sensibility, a Millennial restlessness, and an aesthetic wisdom beyond his years. And perhaps most importantly in this day and age, Kobayashi’s works are imbued with an infectious crossover appeal.
Marion Maneker
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March 13, 2026
The Oracle of Dublin
Clare McAndrew, the prophetic art market economist, is out with the latest edition of the annual report that has become required reading for the industry. The big takeaway is that markets are recovering—but the wealth isn’t being spread evenly, and costs are rising too.
London Swings Back
The auction house results from the recent London sales show a healthy, steadily improving market with more artists in the top tiers, vigorous bidding in the lower tiers, and a hammer ratio that everyone can be happy about.