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THE LATEST ARTICLES
Marion Maneker
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September 2, 2025
Bright Lichtensteins, Big City
The pop artist’s works are enjoying a buying renaissance as the estate works with Sotheby’s to strategically bring them to sale. Meanwhile, the strength of the market for his lower-priced works is enticing younger buyers and reinforcing the health of the broader market.
The Side Dealers of Sotheby’s
The New Yorker’s Patrick Drahi blockbuster documented what many of us knew: Sotheby’s employees do significant moonlighting, apparently with the owner’s tacit approval. But if this unseemly practice doesn’t faze Drahi, the art world’s biggest clients may not be so tolerant.
Marion Maneker
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August 26, 2025
Museum Curation in the MAGA Age: Part II
On a drive through Maine’s mashup of liberal arts college towns and Trump Country, we saw a marvelous Gertrude Abercrombie show, admired Ann Craven’s sunsets along with the real thing, and ran into Alex Katz holding court at the Colby College Museum.
Marion Maneker
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August 24, 2025
Museum Curation in the MAGA Age
In our post-monocultural attention-deficit age, museums have attempted to curate more shows, often highlighting lesser-known artists. In fact, this isn’t wokeism or tokenism at all, but rather a way for institutions to gel with their local communities.
Raters of the Lost Art
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is dedicated to the resource-intensive production of catalogues raisonnés—scholarly compendia of an artist’s entire oeuvre. Executive director Elizabeth Gorayeb explains why the work is a “money pit”—and why it’s so essential.
Marion Maneker
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August 19, 2025
Putting the Art in Artificial
Why is Silicon Valley seemingly so excited about replacing human artistry? A frank conversation about Big Tech’s art “disruption” fantasies, and where that leaves creatives and enthusiasts.
Marion Maneker
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August 15, 2025
Aboriginal Art’s Second Coming
After decades of well-meaning but market-dampening regulations, Australian Aboriginal artists like Emily Kam Kngwarray are finding their true value. It just so happens that we’re in the middle of an Indigenous art boomlet that may portend another frenzy of interest.
The Hottest Artists in the Middle Market
Since the most active sector of the art market lately has been the sales below $1 million, ARTDAI has given us a look at the action at the smaller auction houses: Rockwell and Abercrombie predominate, and collectors keep searching for overlooked value.
Marion Maneker
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August 12, 2025
The New New Haven Thing
The Yale School of Art has launched the careers of many famous artists. Now its dean is on a mission to make sure the art students don’t have to take on debt.
Marion Maneker
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August 8, 2025
Pearlman’s Wisdom
Henry and Rose Pearlman’s grandson has developed an innovative plan to exit their collection from Princeton and divvy up the works across the country on a rotating basis. It may provide an economic and community-engagement model for foundations to follow.
