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…
Pace, Di Donna, and David Schrader Form New Global Secondary-Market Gallery
Pace Gallery, Emmanuel Di Donna, and David Schrader are forming a new joint gallery devoted to secondary-market sales,…
A Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for US $55M,
Frida Kahlo made history this week as her haunting 1940 self-portrait, “El sueño (La cama)” — which translates…
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
Poised to shatter records ahead of its highly anticipated sale, one of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable…
Gustav Klimt portrait painting sells for record $236 million at New York auction
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at…
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,…
Sotheby’s Relocates to Breuer Building
Sotheby’s did not just open a new headquarters this week—it staged a return to form. The auction house…
Frida Kahlo portrait could sell for $60 million and shatter records at Sotheby’s
LONDON (AP) — Frida Kahlo’s face is one of the best known in art, thanks to her bold…
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…
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…
The art market bites back as estimates fail to score – The Art Newspaper
Slowdown, slump, shakedown, stagnation. Call it what you will, the international art market is going through what many…