What’s going down uptown? Plenty, including Basquiat, Picasso, Franz Kline, Ilana Savdie, Miquel Barceló, and more.

For more than 15 years, George Lucas has been quietly building a museum of narrative art, whatever that is. Is his ultimate mission to put his movies on par with other art-historical masterpieces?

Textiles are having a moment as a valid art form. A new Olga de Amaral retrospective in Miami is a festival of technical skill that puts her fabrics, in the words of ICA Miami’s director, “somewhere b...

A revealing conversation with two essential gallerists about the generational shift toward integrating design and art, and why serious collectors are moving beyond just paintings on the wall.

At 87 years old, David Hockney has the popularity and longevity to have earned another retrospective, this one at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. His market is finally catching up to his wide appeal, wit...

The Paris sales totaled about $100 million, with each house selling a single-owner collection, and solid bidding for a range of artists. Maybe it’s easier for Europeans to spend money on art as the ex...

On opening night of The Human Situation, the well-heeled collectors at Lévy Gorvy Dayan were helping to drive the market’s historical turn. But works by Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh to...

In her required-reading annual report on the art market, Clare McAndrew gathered responses from 1,600 galleries in 58 countries to convey what it’s like to be an art dealer these days. The short answe...

Roy Lichtenstein, who died in 1997, is going to have a banner couple of years, with a Sotheby’s auction in May, a Whitney retrospective next year, and tailwinds from an art market that tends to retrea...

To mark the end of an uptown era and the revitalization of his downtown flagship, Larry Gagosian has launched exhibitions of Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning, two artists he has shown many times be...

Christie’s May sales will feature works from the collection that the late art and ballet patron Anne Bass kept in a Fort Worth house designed by Paul Rudolph. That collection, with a combined estimate...

Phillips executive chairman Ed Dolman opens up about grabbing market share from the Big Two, expanding into Asia, and the Matisse bronze sale that established Phillips as a player in contemporary.

In the decade leading to his scandalous and triumphant Portrait of Madame X, the twentysomething expat portraitist made the very most of the city’s salon society scene. A new exhibit at the Met, Sarge...

With an improved hammer ratio and average price per lot over the previous year, the latest New York sales hint at palmy days again. But we’re still far away from the 2022 boom times.

The MAGA vibe shift has come for public institutions, and museums are emerging as the next target. Will the mood truly impact the way identity art is valued in the culture? Or has the market already m...

An inside look at The Warehouse, the Dallas exhibition space fusing two collectors—and two generations—to create a hybrid experiential and educational platform to engage with the public.

The Met’s new show of echt German romanticist Caspar David Friedrich, whom Hitler co-opted for fascist appeal, raises some interesting questions about our cultural moment.

Alice Gray Stites, the top curator of 21c Museum Hotels, discusses the importance of bringing art to the public and the complicated logistics of their hybrid hospitality business.

Two new shows—Gabriel Orozco at Mexico City’s Museo Jumex, and an enlightening survey of Brazilian modernists in London—make yet another case for gazing far beyond Europe.

Artists and collectors swoon over the Italian recluse’s muted masterpieces, but Morandi’s auction market and prices have never followed suit. Will they now?

Larry Gagosian is being displaced at his 980 Madison Avenue flagship gallery by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which bought the property for $560 million. It’s a fitting end to one era—and a fascinating st...

Just when the art market seemed like it was entering a new stratosphere in late 2022, the trend reversed abruptly. Have Chinese bidders dropped out, or are they simply more hesitant to buy the dip?

On a year-end call, the auction house reported that fine art sales were down 31 percent last year, and luxury sales and real estate are now driving the company. And that $1 billion investment from Abu...

The embattled art market company faces an intense five weeks of politicking that will determine, once and for all, who controls its future—and who will prevail in the Weng–Neuendorf battle.

Mattia De Luca’s dream was to hold a pop-up exhibition of his favorite artist, Giorgio Morandi, in New York. On the eve of another important Morandi show at David Zwirner, he speaks about his experien...

The strength and quality of an artist’s studio or foundation can be the difference between their legacy dissipating into the ether or gathering strength with time.

Los Angeles is burning. And one theme of the fires, which are forcing residents to choose between their possessions, is that art is interwoven into our lives.

After perusing endless 2024 sales data, I’m optimistic about the art market, especially because so much of the growth is at the lower end; in collectibles; and in the uppermost tier, where the impact ...

Hauser & Wirth’s Manuela lets guests experience the art collecting lifestyle in a down-to-earth, casual setting, complete with a very mindful seasonal locavore menu.

Will the strong stock market gains of 2024 translate into art market sales? Has Middle East money returned? What about the rising prominence of India?

Hauser & Wirth’s Manuela lets guests experience the art collecting lifestyle in a down-to-earth, casual setting, complete with a very mindful seasonal locavore menu.

The bold new fee structure was meant to lower buyers fees to spur business and end the brutal price war between the auction houses. But after Sotheby’s struggled to land property in all of its main sa...

The bold new fee structure was meant to lower buyers fees to spur business and end the brutal price war between the auction houses. But after Sotheby’s struggled to land property in all of its main sa...

A conversation with Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak and Uovo prize founder Steven Guttman about bestowing this year’s award on Melissa Joseph, the fast-rising textile designer and painter.

Welcome to Wall Power, my private email on the inner workings of the art industry. Tonight, I’m sharing my conversation with Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak and Steven Guttman, the founder of ...

The market for pop-cultural artifacts has never been hotter. But the runaway sale of Judy Garland’s ruby slippers brought the point home: When it comes to memorabilia, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

The 280-year-old auction house is drastically cutting back its staff in offices around the world. With new real estate that emphasizes luxury retail and plans to exploit the power of its brand, what d...

I’m Marion Maneker, and this is Wall Power, your twice-weekly dose of art market navel-gazing. Tonight, we’re going to talk about the record-setting $32 million sale of one of the pairs of ruby slippe...

While the parties and brand activations might have been toned down—sorry, no Rihanna this year—many attendees said the quality of the artwork on offer was better and the prices were more realistic.

Forget Basel. The real focal point of Miami’s overachieving art community may be the newish Institute of Contemporary Art. Alex Gartenfeld, its wunderkind director, has transformed the scene in a mere...

The behind-the-scenes story of how a small gouache work from the Belgian master leveraged timing, demand, and deal heat to draft off the Ertegun piece for a new record of its own.

There were heroes amid the $1.3 billion in sales during last week’s New York auctions, and a couple humbling moments, too. But a closer inspection reveals something less flashy…

Look past the spectacle of Cattelan’s $6.2 million duct-taped fruit, and it’s clear that the premier auctions showed a steady appetite for the stand-out works—Magritte, Ruscha, Prince—but a less relia...

Buyers have cash and determination, but are still picky. Picasso had a rough night, and Matisse was mixed. But an unsigned Monet waterlilies sold for $65.5 million.

A major Artnet shareholder is crying foul over the Neuendorf family’s abrupt cancellation of this week’s annual meeting, delaying an inevitable boardroom showdown.