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THE LATEST ARTICLES
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.
Marion Maneker
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July 16, 2024
The Art Market’s Year of Magical Thinking
Auction totals are down a jarring 25 percent from the first half of last year. But new data from ARTDAI, which contextualizes the results with sales from the past decade, suggests we’ve been here before—a couple times.
Marion Maneker
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July 14, 2024
The Auction House Paris Olympics
Amid the political turnovers in England and France, the shift in emphasis from London to Paris as Europe’s leading art center is gaining momentum.
Marion Maneker
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July 9, 2024
Yo Mary Cassatt!
Philadelphia, which eschews its reputation as a blue-collar sixth borough, is actually a sneaky-great art city. And never more so than now.
Marion Maneker
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July 7, 2024
Art’s Endless Summer
In an incestuous business where your friends are your clients and your clients think you’re their friend, the art world has figured out how to blend the intra-season travel schedule with the reality that the hustle never ends.
Marion Maneker
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July 2, 2024
The Art Market Bank Run Theory
Art advisor Jacob King offers a thesis that absolutely no one wants to hear: After a decade of collectors entering the market with an “investment mindset,” the inevitable high prices that have resulted seem to have choked off the market. So what happens if everyone decides to head for the exits all at once?
