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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Marion Maneker
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November 28, 2025
November’s Overlooked Auction Winners & Losers
A look at the most fascinating market themes, in both positive and negative directions, for artists whose sales during the marquee November auctions weren’t big enough to land on the radar of many industry observers.
Condition Report: The State of the American Museum
A prescient roundtable discussion on the unique challenges and opportunities of running an art museum in 2025, with the Brooklyn Museum’s Anne Pasternak and Whitney’s Scott Rothkopf.
Marion Maneker
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November 25, 2025
Drain the Art Swamp
It’s not easy running an art museum: Trustees are tapped out, there’s pressure to keep admission accessible, and the boards are increasingly vocal. But when the Phillips Collection director decided to sell off a few works in order to commission some new ones, the art media showed their narrow-mindedness. Here’s what they got wrong.
Marion Maneker
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November 21, 2025
New York’s $2B Gigaweek Shocker
Fresh reporting on an ebullient gigaweek in New York, where more than $2 billion worth of art was sold, approaching the market high in 2022, even as bidders sought out art as more than just an asset.
Sotheby’s $706 Million Reset
Last night was years in the making for Sotheby’s, which brought Leonard Lauder’s remarkable collection to its Breuer Building debut for the sort of brand-amplifying flex that makes or breaks a fiscal year. It could not have gone better… almost.
Marion Maneker
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November 18, 2025
Christie’s $700 Million Night
With brisk bidding and an uplifting sense that people were buying art for art’s sake, Christie’s first auctions of New York’s fall season revealed a market returning to solid ground. With six well-known collections on offer, the single night yielded some $690 million in sales, even if the action in the eight-figure range was less heated.
Marion Maneker
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November 14, 2025
Philly Dreamworld
Three new surrealism shows in Philadelphia—an unsung art center—arrive at a moment when the genre has become a dominant theme in the art world.
Condition Report: Jeff Koons on Jeff Koons
The 70-year-old iconoclast is back with his longtime gallery and still elevating objects to thrilling, shiny new heights. Here, he expounds on the power of porcelain, the philosophy of reflection, and (almost) compares himself to Leonardo.
Marion Maneker
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November 11, 2025
November Rain
On the eve of the November sales, a new optimism has returned to the art market: Overall volume is up, estimates are set to be beaten, and great works are being offered at good prices. Next week’s New York sales results could confirm the new momentum. Or not.
Marion Maneker
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November 7, 2025
An Art Flâneur’s Guide to New York
A meandering preview of Manhattan’s most pressing gallery shows, from the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Tom Lloyd retrospective to Gagosian’s arresting Richard Prince exhibition, in anticipation of the New York sales season.
