Art market 2025 review: all eyes on the Gulf as Trump destabilises global order – The Art Newspaper
The contraction of the global art market stretched well into 2025, with the challenging macro environment cited as…
Jenny Saville Lands First Solo Show in Venice: Morning Links
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES SAVILLE ON A ROLL. The International…
Mellon Blue diamond sells for $25.6 million
By AFP Published November 11, 2025 The Mellon Blue, a 9.51-carat fancy vivid blue diamond formerly owned by…
Thomas S. Kaplan is Selling a $20 Million Rembrandt Drawing of Lion
Sotheby’s hosted a lunch for American-Franco precious metals mogul, philanthropist, and conservationist Thomas S. Kaplan at its Paris…
Herzog & de Meuron transforms Breuer Building into Sotheby’s gallery
Architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and local studio PBDW Architects have completed a “quasi-invisible” renovation of Marcel Breuer‘s…
What Happens When the Old Whitney Breuer Building Becomes a Sotheby’s
When I heard in 2023 that Sotheby’s, one of the Big Three auction houses alongside Christie’s and Phillips,…
V&A East Opens with Gen Z in Mind
The Headlines A MUSEUM FOR GEN Z. Gus Casely-Hayford, director of the new V&A East, wants London’s long-awaited…
Morning Links for October 31, 2025.
The Headlines ROYAL FLUSH. During the marquee New York sales next month, Maurizio Cattelan, whose duct-taped banana sold for $6.2 million…
Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet going to auction at Sotheby’s – The Art Newspaper
One year after Sotheby’s drew global attention with the $6.2m sale of Maurizo Cattelan’s Comedian (2019)—a banana duct-taped…
David Hockney’s iPad Drawings Smash High Estimate at Sotheby’s
A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled “The Arrival of Spring,” hit the auction block…
How Basquiat Became One of the World’s Most Valuable Artists
In September, Gaston & Sheehan, a tiny auctioneer in Pflugerville, Texas, sold Red Man One, a 1982 painting…
Is the Persian Gulf Art Boom an Autocrat-Created Mirage?
While art markets in Europe and the United States sputter, a very different story is unfolding on the…