ART
Marion Maneker
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October 31, 2025
Night at the Museum
With its striking new David Adjaye–designed museum, Princeton is signaling that art and the humanities still matter—not just as a subject of study, but as a core part of campus life, community, and institutional identity. Plus, it should help in the escalating battle to attract new students and cultivate alumni gifts…
Party Down
At Puck’s Art of Influence event in September, collector Glenn Fuhrman interviewed Swiss artist Nicolas Party about the challenges and opportunities of being a successful international artist—from pricing and the politics of the studio visit to the freedom of creating work that isn’t for sale.
Marion Maneker
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October 28, 2025
The House That Ruth Built
A sweeping MoMA retrospective shows the full scope and ambition of Ruth Asawa, a titanic talent who studied with luminaries like Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers, yet wasn’t fully discovered until her death in 2013. As the art world approaches her centennial, the appreciation is still growing.
Julie Brener Davich
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October 26, 2025
There’s Something About Marie
A new V&A exhibit is likely to fuel the high demand for Marie Antoinette–associated artworks and objects. “I can’t think of a more important and valuable provenance,” as one person put it.
Marion Maneker
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October 24, 2025
The Art Basel Paris Vibe Shift
The global fair’s Paris edition is now Europe’s undisputed apex art event. But is Paris more of an attraction to buyers, or a distraction from the real deal heat? Depends whom you ask.
Martin Wilson’s Third Way
The newish C.E.O. of Phillips opens up about his innovative new fee structure, competing for the biggest estates, and how his house is distinguishing itself as the smallest of the Big Three.
Marion Maneker
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October 21, 2025
School of Richter
The Louvre smash-and-grab is the talk of Paris, but let’s focus on the museums that didn’t get robbed—including a major retrospective of Gerhard Richter, and shows that should help Philip Guston and George Condo cement their places in art history.
Julie Brener Davich
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October 19, 2025
London by Design
At the Pavilion of Art and Design fair in London, the thrum of activity surrounding art deco, as well as contemporary artist-designers working in natural materials, evidenced the health of a market fueled by global collectors—and their decorators—who were eager to buy.
Marion Maneker
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October 17, 2025
Frieze Keeps Calm and Carries On
Frieze week in London delivered a swirl of mixed messages: Collectors are wary of overspending and dealers are relying on the old dependables, but there’s a new wave of younger art-curious collectors circling the hunt. Meanwhile, Frieze’s newly enhanced V.I.P. team appeared to get results.
Conscientious Collectors
A freewheeling, on-the-record roundtable with some of the world’s most prominent art collectors—Glenn Fuhrman, Michael Ovitz, J. Tomilson Hill, and Dasha Zhukova—discussing their formative experiences with art, what drives serious collecting today, and how to get the next generation of potential collectors to look at art somewhere other than their phones.
Marion Maneker
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October 14, 2025
Deep Frieze
Now in its third decade, London’s Frieze art fair occupies a different world than it once did, as New York and Paris have taken on greater importance for auctions. Now the major houses are rethinking what London is for.
Julie Brener Davich
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October 12, 2025
The Prince of Porcelain
As auction houses have retreated from the category of European ceramics amid declining prices, a next-generation dealer spots a market opportunity.
Marion Maneker
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October 10, 2025
Hello, Columbus
After he figured out how to build a better billboard, Ohio native Peter Scantland began building a collection. Now, the 46-year-old is endowing and collaborating with museums, and offering a promising ideal of the younger collector.
A Tale of Two Cities: Lichtenstein, Picasso & The Pivot to Asia
Simultaneous late September auctions in Hong Kong and New York told two very different stories about the art market: Asia is showing signs of life, and rebalancing, while New York is still waiting for direction.
Marion Maneker
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October 7, 2025
A Munch in the Trunk
How one family discovered they owned a key work by Edvard Munch that was too valuable to sell—and how a clever print specialist solved the problem.
Julie Brener Davich
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October 5, 2025
The Odd Couple
A new show pairing Magritte and Les Lalanne puts the surrealist master in conversation with two spiritual successors—capitalizing on the heat surrounding both of their markets and challenging the boundaries of surrealism, itself.
Marion Maneker
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October 3, 2025
Haze of Glory
An otherworldly new show by Gen Z surrealist Sasha Gordon, at David Zwirner, offers all the elements for success: hypnotic new works, and a compelling personal narrative, that are on trend but entirely new.