THE LATEST ARTICLES
Jenny Saville
Julie Brener Davich June 1, 2025
Jolly old England is getting a jolt this summer from five provocative shows featuring female artists whose works challenge conventional notions of beauty and put womanhood on full display in all its unidealized glory.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, 2021
Julie Brener Davich May 25, 2025
Two new gallery shows in Manhattan exemplify the kind of boundary-pushing work that Native American artists started making after the Standing Rock protests in 2016. Institutions have embraced the movement, so why hasn’t the market?
George Wachter
Julie Brener Davich May 18, 2025
George Wachter, a Sotheby’s lifer who has long led its Old Masters department, is overseeing the category’s most valuable single-owner sale ever this week. We spoke about dirty old paintings, Victoria Beckham, and how the art market has (and hasn’t) changed over the past 50 years.
René Magritte
Julie Brener Davich May 11, 2025
The surrealist moment goes on, for those who are not so keen on reality these days. There are several works at the auctions, but you can also catch a variety of both famous and lesser-known artists at galleries around the city.


EXPO CHICAGO 2025
Julie Brener Davich April 27, 2025
Expo Chicago features lower prices compared to other Frieze-branded fairs, but it functions as a catalyst and convener for the local arts community.
President Abraham Lincoln
Julie Brener Davich April 6, 2025
A trove of Lincoln memorabilia headed for auction in Chicago has stunning depth, with items as intimate as the blood stained gloves he wore on the night of his assassination. The Lincoln Presidential Foundation, once beset by firings, infighting, and a Blago-adjacent scandal, is hoping the proceeds can pay down its debts.
Noah Davis
Julie Brener Davich April 1, 2025
Noah Davis had a brilliant career as a painter, curator, and community builder until it was cut short at 32 by cancer. Now a retrospective of his work—currently at the Barbican in London but coming to Los Angeles this summer—launches his legacy on a new trajectory.
TEFAF
Julie Brener Davich March 21, 2025
The Netherlands’ annual European Fine Art Foundation fair has been plagued by brazen jewel heists, leadership churn, and its distinction as an early Covid superspreader. None of that makes it any less remarkable or irreplaceable.


Doreen Remen, Yvonne Force Villareal, Casey Fremont Crowe, Kathleen Lynch
Julie Brener Davich March 14, 2025
Inside New York’s grandest example of midcentury modernism, as Art Production Fund celebrated its 25th anniversary with a semi-risqué slumber party that coaxed the art and fashion worlds to get into bed together.
Brynn Wallner
Julie Brener Davich March 9, 2025
The women’s watch journalist behind Dimepiece is changing the stuffy collecting community—what women wear and how they wear it—while helping to reshape the industry, itself.
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