Art Collecting

A painting of a stranger’s face sold for over 20 million dollars at auction in 2023, outperforming blue-chip stocks and most real estate markets in the same period. That painting…

Auction records once owned by abstract expressionism are starting to crack. In 2024, figurative and portrait works accounted for nearly 58% of total fine art auction hammer prices in the…

From Caravaggio's tenebrism to Rubens's grand machines — our field guide to Baroque art covers the period, the canon, and the auction market today.

The global art market contracted by roughly 4% in 2026, yet contemporary pop art bucked that trend entirely, with bold graphic works and celebrity-adjacent imagery driving some of the strongest…

A single canvas by a self-taught artist who died at 27 sold for $110.5 million in 2017, making Jean-Michel Basquiat the most expensive American artist ever auctioned at that time….

Every serious art movement started with someone breaking a rule they never knew existed. Naive art did something rarer still. It was built by people who never learned the rules…

The art world is changing fast, and renaissance inspired art collectors are right at the center of it. Something powerful is shifting across galleries, auction houses, and private sales rooms…

Auction houses make money from both sides of every deal. Sellers pay commissions. Buyers pay premiums. And over the past few decades, those buyer premiums have climbed from single digits…

From Hockney's iPad prints to Murakami's flowers — why serious collectors keep buying limited-edition prints, and what to look for when you do.

Art's notorious illiquidity is exactly why serious collections take decades to build, not years. Our read on what that constraint actually does to a collection.

The United Arab Emirates has put $5.3 billion behind cultural development, and this is no vanity project or superficial nation-branding exercise. The investment spans world-class museums including the Louvre Abu…

From the contemporary figurative revival to renewed interest in 19th-century academic painting — the traditional art movements actually defining 2026.

KAWS figures sit somewhere between toy, sculpture, and pop-culture artifact. Our editorial read on whether they hold up as serious additions to a collection.

Wealth isn’t what it used to be. Today’s portfolios blend traditional and alternative assets in ways that would have seemed radical just a decade ago. Art now occupies the same…

Yes, the auction houses are reporting better numbers. No, the recovery isn't a return to 2021-22. Our read on what the 2026 art market actually looks like.

The art world’s gender gap is staggering, even after decades of conversation about equity and representation. Between 2008 and 2019, roughly $196.6 billion was spent at auction globally, yet only…

The art market entered 2026 carrying bruises from a difficult 2024 and 2025 that showed no signs of healing. Auction houses posted tepid results that failed to match pre-pandemic peaks….

The contemporary art world runs on a curious contradiction. Every gallery opening, every art fair, every biennial bills itself as a celebration of boundary-breaking creativity and fearless innovation. Yet beneath…