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16 April 2025

The 15 Most Expensive Artworks Ever Sold at Auction

Auction records make for great headlines. There's a thrill in watching numbers climb into the stratosphere, each sale another reminder that, in the art market, money has a way of bending reality. But the price of a painting has never been the most interesting thing about it. ... read more (external link)

16 April 2025

After More Than 500 Years, Leonardo da Vinci Is Still Breaking News

It's no mean feat to be history's most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title. Though he is best known for his talents as a painter, he was also an engineer, architect, and an inquisitive scientist whose notebooks reveal an avid interest in anatomy, astronomy, botany, and cartography. ... read more (external link)

16 April 2025

Amy Sherald's Portraits Have Injected the Genre with New Life, But They Also Flatten Blackness

In Amy Sherald's unique visual language, muted yet commanding Black subjects are set against bold color fields. These eye-catching portraits reward longer looking. Her subjects, donning carefully selected garments, face audiences directly with quiet dignity, their skin painted in shades of gray ... read more (external link)

16 April 2025

Christie's to Sell Treasured Artworks Picked by Tiqui Atencio and Ago Demirdjian

Christie's is kicking off a major selling season with works that once decorated the home of Ago Demirdjian and ARTnews Top 200 collector Tiqui Atencio, the husband and wife duo who have become two the most influential figures in contemporary art patronage. ... read more (external link)

09 April 2025

How Much Fine Art Sold at Auction in 2024?

Fine-art sales at auction totaled $10.2 billion in 2024, down 27.3 percent year over year, which roughly parallels the pandemic-related contraction of 2020, when sales dropped 22.3 percent, to $10.2 billion. ... read more (external link)

09 April 2025

Which Country's Art Market Came Out on Top in 2024?

The U.S. remained the largest art market globally, with fine-art auction sales generating $4.3 billion in 2024, down 25.5 percent year over year. Inflation remained high for most of the year, driving costs up and sales down, while few high-value single-owner sales which buoyed totals in previous years went under the hammer. Although this is the third-lowest U.S. sales total in a decade, it is still around $1 billion above pandemic-altered 2020. ... read more (external link)

09 April 2025

Are Prints Booming? Two New York Fairs Show the Medium's Strength in the Market

Last month, New York played host to not one but two major print fairs, underscoring the growing demand for prints and multiples in a market that has otherwise cooled. The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair, which for years has been considered the gold standard for fine art print collecting, saw record-breaking attendance, while the inaugural Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair (BFAPF) positioned itself as a fresh and vital player in the city's art fair landscape. ... read more (external link)

09 April 2025

Art Basel UBS Report Shows Cooling on Global Art Market's High End: A Tale of Two Segments

A little over two years ago, closing a deal was relatively simple and quick for gallerists trading in ultra-contemporary art. A collector came to a show or a fair, saw something they liked or was hot, and bought it, few questions asked. In today's cooling market, the decision process is longer and more fraught, with plenty of time to bail out or head for the safer waters of more established post-war artists. ... read more (external link)

02 April 2025

Artist Tracey Emin Reflects on Sex, Love, and Loss in Landmark Italian Show

Tracey Emin, the former wild child of the contemporary British art scene, is the focus of a major new show in Italy, the first of its kind in the country. ... read more (external link)

02 April 2025

Newly Attributed Turner Painting Heads to Sale in Vienna for $41 M.

Painted in 1845, the work is believed to have been in Austria since the 1950s. Its current owner, whose name was not disclosed as part of the study, purchased it in 2005. The unnamed collector loaned the piece in 2022, then commissioned the study after suspecting it may be an original Turner. ... read more (external link)
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