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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Don’t Call It a Comeback…
The numbers from October’s European auctions are in, and they are defying the tired narrative of a moribund art market. In fact, according to the data, the market is strong and getting stronger.
Marion Maneker
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November 4, 2025
The Art Reality Distortion Field
The gulf between how the art world operates and how the art press says it operates has never been wider. While journalists cry wolf and fixate on the treatment of artworks as mere financial assets, they are likely missing the point, and the opportunity. As it turns out, it may be a great time to buy.
Marion Maneker
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October 31, 2025
Night at the Museum
With its striking new David Adjaye–designed museum, Princeton is signaling that art and the humanities still matter—not just as a subject of study, but as a core part of campus life, community, and institutional identity. Plus, it should help in the escalating battle to attract new students and cultivate alumni gifts…
Party Down
At Puck’s Art of Influence event in September, collector Glenn Fuhrman interviewed Swiss artist Nicolas Party about the challenges and opportunities of being a successful international artist—from pricing and the politics of the studio visit to the freedom of creating work that isn’t for sale.
Marion Maneker
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October 28, 2025
The House That Ruth Built
A sweeping MoMA retrospective shows the full scope and ambition of Ruth Asawa, a titanic talent who studied with luminaries like Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers, yet wasn’t fully discovered until her death in 2013. As the art world approaches her centennial, the appreciation is still growing.
Marion Maneker
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October 24, 2025
The Art Basel Paris Vibe Shift
The global fair’s Paris edition is now Europe’s undisputed apex art event. But is Paris more of an attraction to buyers, or a distraction from the real deal heat? Depends whom you ask.
Martin Wilson’s Third Way
The newish C.E.O. of Phillips opens up about his innovative new fee structure, competing for the biggest estates, and how his house is distinguishing itself as the smallest of the Big Three.
Marion Maneker
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October 21, 2025
School of Richter
The Louvre smash-and-grab is the talk of Paris, but let’s focus on the museums that didn’t get robbed—including a major retrospective of Gerhard Richter, and shows that should help Philip Guston and George Condo cement their places in art history.
Marion Maneker
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October 17, 2025
Frieze Keeps Calm and Carries On
Frieze week in London delivered a swirl of mixed messages: Collectors are wary of overspending and dealers are relying on the old dependables, but there’s a new wave of younger art-curious collectors circling the hunt. Meanwhile, Frieze’s newly enhanced V.I.P. team appeared to get results.
Conscientious Collectors
A freewheeling, on-the-record roundtable with some of the world’s most prominent art collectors—Glenn Fuhrman, Michael Ovitz, J. Tomilson Hill, and Dasha Zhukova—discussing their formative experiences with art, what drives serious collecting today, and how to get the next generation of potential collectors to look at art somewhere other than their phones.
