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The 2025 Art Market Prediction Roundup

Will the strong stock market gains of 2024 translate into art market sales? Has money from the Middle East returned to art? What about the rising prominence and wealth of India? A survey of some art market predictions might help the industry tell itself a better story.

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The search for a new narrative—a collecting thesis that redefines the pecking order in terms of art history, popularity, and value—may be the overriding theme of the current market. Photo: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
January 8, 2025

I try to avoid making predictions—mostly because I’m terrible at it—but I also know that making them is an inevitable part of closing out a year and welcoming a new one. Whether that’s because knowledgeable people can’t resist showing off, or virtue-signalling, or just trying to manifest a desired outcome by vocalizing it, a practice known on Wall Street as “talking your book,” I will let you decide.