ART
Marion Maneker
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September 15, 2024
Kusama’s Jerry Maguire?
Athletes, actors, and authors all have agents. So why don’t artists? That’s the question that UTA tried to answer with its Fine Arts division. Now, the agency has put that initiative on pause.
Marion Maneker
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September 10, 2024
Legends of the Fall
From an exhibition featuring the young Impressionists in their rebel heyday to a show dissecting modern Black representation in the art world, here’s what I’m looking forward to seeing this fall.
Marion Maneker
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September 8, 2024
Gangs of New York
The art world has taken Manhattan, bringing with it some surprises that have provided insight into what’s really taking place in the market.
Marion Maneker
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September 3, 2024
The Art Market’s Lo-Fi Tech Solution
For years, tech platforms have been pining to disrupt the art market with A.I. or blockchain or a jazzy new platform. I came up with a better solution during a chat with the Yale School of Management’s Magnus Resch.
Marion Maneker
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September 1, 2024
The Kornfeld Stimulus Plan
I wouldn’t say that the immediate future of the art market depends entirely on the forthcoming sale of the late auctioneer’s extraordinary personal collection—Munch, Monet, Mondrian, Klee, Seurat, Degas, Kirchner, Giacometti, etcetera—but it should be a harbinger.
Marion Maneker
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August 27, 2024
Findlay’s Wake
A new memoir by legendary art dealer Michael Findlay looks back at the wild art world of 1960s New York, when buildings in Soho sold for a song and the appreciation of a work of art outweighed its investment potential.
Marion Maneker
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August 25, 2024
The Four Horsemen of the Ultra-Contemporary Apocalypse
The Times profiled four artists whose work soared and then crashed at auction. Who’s to blame? Speculators, the eternal bogeyman of the art market? Or is there another story the media is missing?
Marion Maneker
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August 20, 2024
The Art World In-Crowd’s New Bible
Sarah Harrelson has used her old school magazine-maker’s skills and outsider’s perspective to bring a new generation of collectors into the art market.
Marion Maneker
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August 18, 2024
The Full-Stack Art Market
While the top of the art market has contracted, contributing to a dour mood inside the big auction houses, segmented data shows the bottom is motoring along—defying the hair-on-fire narrative of an art world recession.
Marion Maneker
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August 18, 2024
Schwarzman’s Bid for Immortality
The hedge fund billionaire’s Newport restoration, a stunning cliffside estate to rival the Vanderbilts’ old Breakers, will be turned into a museum after his and his wife’s deaths. Art market sources say it’s less about the collection than creating a monument to his own Gilded Age legacy.
Marion Maneker
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August 13, 2024
Finally, a Sign the Art Market Is Back…
A rigorous analysis of ARTDAI’s dataset shows that the concurrence of rising sell-through rates and an increase in the percentage of lots sold above estimates portends a strong season ahead—if these trends hold.
Marion Maneker
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August 11, 2024
Drahi’s Billion-Dollar Question
Caught between a slowing art market and $1.88 billion in debt, Sotheby’s owner finally landed the investment he needed to see his art world adventure through. What will he do with the money?
Marion Maneker
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August 6, 2024
Gundlach & Loaded
Jeffrey Gundlach climbed a mountain of art collecting that culminated in acquiring the Mondrian of his dreams. But after he bagged his last trophy, he turned to museum building. A look at the billionaire bond king’s art investment thesis, his views on the market, and why he’s reviving the museum that launched his collecting journey.
Marion Maneker
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August 4, 2024
A Creole in Napoleon’s Paris
Born in Guadeloupe to a sugar plantation owner and a freedwoman, Guillaume Lethière rose to become the head of the French Academy in Rome, but is now almost entirely forgotten. The Clark Institute and the Louvre are mounting an eye-opening revival.
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.