ART
Marion Maneker
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January 20, 2026
Dye Hard & Humeau’s Bat Cave
Fresh from their holiday hibernation, New York galleries are once again buzzing with crowded openings and legendary works from the likes of Humeau, Pousette-Dart, Eggleston, and Flavin.
Condition Report: Steve Ivy, C.E.O. of Heritage Auctions
An eye-opening conversation with the auction house founder (and lifelong numismatist) on the explosion of the collectibles market, Heritage’s $2 billion year, and his middle-school obsession with coins.
Marion Maneker
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January 13, 2026
Sex & The Single Artist
A career-spanning new exhibit of Joan Semmel captures an artist challenging conventional nudes, addressing women’s liberation, and making her own depictions of sexuality, aging, and herself.
Marion Maneker
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January 11, 2026
Washington’s Other Culture Wars
The Stars We Do Not See, a new show at the National Gallery, offers a reflection on the past and modernism that seems perfectly at home in the capital these days.
Marion Maneker
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January 9, 2026
The Art-Backed Loan Crisis That Wasn’t
A recent column in the Financial Times tried to sound the alarm about an apparent crisis in the art loan business. But a close inspection of the data behind the story—and a survey of art loan business insiders—reveals a much more nuanced picture.
Is the Art Market Ready for a Bull Run?
With $5.4 billion in combined sales, 2025 was a pretty decent year for Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Christie’s, as well as the broader auction market. But a deeper analysis of sales across price ranges, average lot values, and the percentage of works sold below estimate may foretell what 2026 brings.
Marion Maneker
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January 6, 2026
A Match Made in Buenos Aires
How a family of Swiss industrialists helped deepen and redefine Argentina’s premier art museum, years after their deaths.
Marion Maneker
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January 4, 2026
Kaws and Effect
After Covid zombified downtown San Francisco, SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford turned to an artist with a Warholian grasp of pop culture—and the ability to reengage both families and the tech set.
Mark Healy
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January 2, 2026
Reed Hastings’ Mountainhead
Since stepping down as C.E.O. three years ago, Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has largely devoted himself to philanthropy and Powder Mountain—his Utah ski resort that now includes an ambitious public art park and is changing the very notion of a mountain town.
Alex French
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December 28, 2025
The Goldin Boy
The reigning king of collectibles is celebrating a third season of his Netflix show and a new stability in the collectibles and memorabilia market, which is better informed and more properly authenticated than ever. That doesn’t mean he’s above selling a Cheeto if there’s a market for it—especially if it makes for good TV.
Marion Maneker
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December 23, 2025
Charlie’s Angels
It’s been a monumental year for Sotheby’s, which secured nearly $1 billion from the Emiratis, sold the Macklowe and Lauder collections, and made a new home on Madison Avenue. C.E.O. Charles Stewart sits down for a candid discussion about his auction house’s big year and the emerging Gulf market.
Marion Maneker
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December 21, 2025
Helene of Finland
The new Helene Schjerfbeck show at the Met offers a rare opportunity to see the work of a truly important artist, whose significance was obscured only by the fact that she lived in a small country far from the center of culture.
Marion Maneker
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December 19, 2025
Art’s $14B Goldilocks Year
In the space of a few short months, we’ve seen the public art market return not only to viability, but vibrancy—even if we’re only just returning to a baseline level of sales.
Condition Report: Jay Krehbiel, the Man in the Middle
Freeman’s, the ambitious Midwest auction house, is conquering the middle market between multimillion-dollar auctions and weekend estate sales. Herewith, executive chairman Jay Krehbiel opens up about his M&A pathway, the economics of undercutting the big houses, and the tension between operating locally and globally.
Marion Maneker
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December 16, 2025
History Is Written by the Gallerists
Three striking new gallery shows—Faith Ringgold, Richard Diebenkorn, and Julian Schnabel—show how gallerists work hard to steer perceptions and provide context to decades-old works. It’s harder than it looks.
Marion Maneker
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December 12, 2025
The Rauschenberg Chronicles
In celebration of the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth, two new museum shows in New York explore the work of an artist who always seemed both ubiquitous and somewhat forgotten.
The Art Advisor Justice League
Art advisors are a fairly recent phenomenon, and no one is showing how it’s done better than Patti Wong, Brett Gorvy, and Wentworth Beaumont. In this lively roundtable discussion, the three explain an advisor’s role in a murky market, how the back office operates, and why ambitious collectors need consultants now more than ever.