ART
Dan Duray
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April 26, 2026
The Guggenheim’s New Boss
Melissa Chiu, the new director of New York’s Guggenheim Museum, opens up about generating an audience beyond Instagram, raising money from all corners of the globe, and working with—not against—that famous building.
Marion Maneker
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April 24, 2026
Sotheby’s $96M de Gunzburg Blockbuster
The de Gunzburg sale on Wednesday sent shockwaves through the market—and included a major new record for Claude Lalanne.
Condition Report: Cara Zimmerman, Head of Outsider Art, Christie’s
Outsider art’s auction insider talks about integrating the category into contemporary sales, the importance of quality over backstory, and elevating self-taught artists.
Marion Maneker
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April 21, 2026
Alexander the Great
The new Alexander Calder retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton reminds us that the artist was a true revolutionary before he became a mainstream staple. It also shows off the influence and market activity of the Calder Foundation, where the artist’s grandson is still calling the shots.
Glenn Adamson
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April 19, 2026
Hot Hand: Meyers & Fügmann
Two young acolytes of the design legend Hella Jongerius operate a studio of their own, where they’re unleashing colorful gradients in textiles, ceramics, and beyond—and adding an organic element of chance to the predictability of industrial design.
Marion Maneker
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April 17, 2026
Marcel the Shell: A Restaurant Emerges at the Breuer
Behind the design of the new Sotheby's restaurant, a collaboration with Robin and Stephen Alesch, which manages to achieve a dramatic setting within significant landmark constraints.
Marion Maneker
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April 17, 2026
The Artnet of the Deal
The combination of Artsy and Artnet has placed Jeff Yin in charge of a combined art-market platform with new potential—an A.I.-powered auction database, merged gallery networks, and a slimmed-down newsroom. Can his vision survive contact with reality?
Art Market Moneyball, With Clare McAndrew
Clare McAndrew, the author of Art Basel and UBS’s influential annual report, discusses calculating transactions in mixed years, the risk of surveying dealers to death, and how she compiles the art market’s most dependable and authoritative assessment.
Marion Maneker
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April 14, 2026
The High Priest of High Concept
After a tragically long interval, Marcel Duchamp is getting a retrospective at MoMA that comprehends the full revolutionary impact of his conceptual work. And yes, it was worth the wait.
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.