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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Marion Maneker
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June 30, 2024
A Picasso Surprise & The Basquiat Boom
The June sales in London are in the midst of being downgraded. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a thing or two from the tepid results, which show the market is still bottoming. Plus, a preview of the Old Master sales.
Marion Maneker
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June 25, 2024
Little Britain Sales
A preview of the Phillips and Christie’s London sales, including a number of important works that may define—or rewrite—the narrative coalescing around the current art market.
Marion Maneker
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June 23, 2024
London Art Fog
The London sales may not have headline lots, but there are still plenty of opportunities for surprises… and this market sure needs surprises.
Marion Maneker
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June 18, 2024
Loic Gouzer’s Imaginary Collection
What’s the solution to the art market’s demand doldrums? If you ask Loic Gouzer, it’s a “conviction-based auction house.” A look at how his business, Fair Warning, is succeeding where the rest of the market is struggling.
Marion Maneker
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June 16, 2024
Basel’s New Money & A Gagosian Ouster
Behind the usual scrum of buyers and sellers, a pair of dueling narrative vie to define Basel and the broader market. Also: inside the executive shakeup at the world’s most enigmatic gallery.
Marion Maneker
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June 11, 2024
Portraits of the Young Artists…
According to proprietary ARTDAI data, we’ve reached the downcycle in the sales of work by emerging artists—further proof, perhaps, that the forthcoming art market revival will coalesce around more prominent historical figures.
Marion Maneker
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June 9, 2024
The Traveling Art Circus Arrives in Basel
The art market isn’t in as much trouble as everyone seems to suggest. It just isn’t generating much excitement. This week, the big money crowd arrives in Basel. Will they find anything to make them open their checkbooks?
Marion Maneker
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June 4, 2024
Is Basquiat the New Picasso?
In both New York and Hong Kong last month, Jean-Michel displaced the Spanish master as the new benchmark for the art world. For years, the artist’s market—driven via headline-inducing purchases by the likes of Ken Griffin and Jho Low—seemed to have exceeded real collector demand. Now that’s all changing.
Marion Maneker
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June 2, 2024
Wool Beyond Words
An unconventionally staged show of Christopher Wool’s work may reset the market for the artist and better frame his career in the contemporary marketplace.
Marion Maneker
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May 28, 2024
London Falling
News and notes on the art market’s quiet deprecation of London as the big auction houses set up shop in Hong Kong, resize their ambitions in Asia, and attempt to rewrite the auction calendar.
