ART
Marion Maneker
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December 2, 2025
You Down With PDS?
A gallerist, a dealer, and Sotheby’s head of private sales are joining forces to meet the moment in the secondary art market and fill the space where deals are actually happening.
Julie Brener Davich
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November 30, 2025
Sotheby’s Dealmaker-in-Chief
Madeline Lissner, the auction house’s new head of global fine art and major collections, opens up about the impact of the Breuer Building, managing client relationships, and the latest global market trends.
Marion Maneker
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November 28, 2025
November’s Overlooked Auction Winners & Losers
A look at the most fascinating market themes, in both positive and negative directions, for artists whose sales during the marquee November auctions weren’t big enough to land on the radar of many industry observers.
Condition Report: The State of the American Museum
A prescient roundtable discussion on the unique challenges and opportunities of running an art museum in 2025, with the Brooklyn Museum’s Anne Pasternak and Whitney’s Scott Rothkopf.
Marion Maneker
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November 25, 2025
Drain the Art Swamp
It’s not easy running an art museum: Trustees are tapped out, there’s pressure to keep admission accessible, and the boards are increasingly vocal. But when the Phillips Collection director decided to sell off a few works in order to commission some new ones, the art media showed their narrow-mindedness. Here’s what they got wrong.
Julie Brener Davich
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November 23, 2025
Cracking the Fabergé Egg Market
Fabergé’s renowned Imperial Winter Egg returns to auction next week at Christie’s in London with a staggering £20 million estimate.
Marion Maneker
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November 21, 2025
New York’s $2B Gigaweek Shocker
Fresh reporting on an ebullient gigaweek in New York, where more than $2 billion worth of art was sold, approaching the market high in 2022, even as bidders sought out art as more than just an asset.
Sotheby’s $706 Million Reset
Last night was years in the making for Sotheby’s, which brought Leonard Lauder’s remarkable collection to its Breuer Building debut for the sort of brand-amplifying flex that makes or breaks a fiscal year. It could not have gone better… almost.
Marion Maneker
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November 18, 2025
Christie’s $700 Million Night
With brisk bidding and an uplifting sense that people were buying art for art’s sake, Christie’s first auctions of New York’s fall season revealed a market returning to solid ground. With six well-known collections on offer, the single night yielded some $690 million in sales, even if the action in the eight-figure range was less heated.
Julie Brener Davich
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November 16, 2025
I Knew It Was You, Wifredo
Wifredo Lam was born to a Chinese father and an Afro-Cuban mother, came of age with Picasso in late 1930s Europe, and preferred painting on paper to canvas. Now, with a new MoMA retrospective, as well as nearly 20 works up for auction next week, the hard-to-categorize painter is finding global recognition.
Marion Maneker
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November 14, 2025
Philly Dreamworld
Three new surrealism shows in Philadelphia—an unsung art center—arrive at a moment when the genre has become a dominant theme in the art world.
Condition Report: Jeff Koons on Jeff Koons
The 70-year-old iconoclast is back with his longtime gallery and still elevating objects to thrilling, shiny new heights. Here, he expounds on the power of porcelain, the philosophy of reflection, and (almost) compares himself to Leonardo.
Marion Maneker
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November 11, 2025
November Rain
On the eve of the November sales, a new optimism has returned to the art market: Overall volume is up, estimates are set to be beaten, and great works are being offered at good prices. Next week’s New York sales results could confirm the new momentum. Or not.
Julie Brener Davich
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November 9, 2025
Okada’s $50 Million Debt Servicing Plan
Japan’s so-called “Pachinko king,” staring down tens of millions of dollars in legal obligations, is bringing one of the greatest collections of Asian art to auction.
Marion Maneker
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November 7, 2025
An Art Flâneur’s Guide to New York
A meandering preview of Manhattan’s most pressing gallery shows, from the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Tom Lloyd retrospective to Gagosian’s arresting Richard Prince exhibition, in anticipation of the New York sales season.
Don’t Call It a Comeback…
The numbers from October’s European auctions are in, and they are defying the tired narrative of a moribund art market. In fact, according to the data, the market is strong and getting stronger.
Marion Maneker
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November 4, 2025
The Art Reality Distortion Field
The gulf between how the art world operates and how the art press says it operates has never been wider. While journalists cry wolf and fixate on the treatment of artworks as mere financial assets, they are likely missing the point, and the opportunity. As it turns out, it may be a great time to buy.