MarketThe fair's two new acquisition prizes paid out as promised, and the Bronx Museum spent $14,000 of its $15,000. The harder number to read is the one nobody put in a press release: what a 50% US duty on Canadian art did to the dealers who came down from Montreal and Toronto.
By Martin Duch · September 29, 2026 · 5 min read
MarketSingle-owner collections made up 24% of what Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips sold in 2025, against 9% a decade earlier. The trillions everyone talks about are changing what comes to market faster than they are changing who buys.
By Martin Duch · September 5, 2026 · 4 min read
MarketFrieze runs London, Los Angeles, New York, Seoul, and since 2023 The Armory Show and Expo Chicago. The Armory's two-week move this September is the first time the group has visibly managed its fairs as a portfolio rather than as rivals.
By Martin Duch · August 14, 2026 · 3 min read
MarketThe auction houses closed a solid H1 2026. Read the results by category rather than by total and the recovery looks narrower: postwar and modern absorbed the money, and everything edgier stayed where it was.
By Martin Duch · July 16, 2026 · 3 min read
MarketThe tenth Art Basel and UBS report puts 2025 global sales at $59.6 billion after two years of decline. Underneath the recovery, the channel that was supposed to be the future had its worst year in six.
By Martin Duch · March 17, 2026 · 3 min read
MarketNearly 140 exhibitors at NADA, 157 at Untitled, and a week in which the emerging end of Miami Art Week did the quiet work of proving the recovery was not confined to the blue chip.
By Célia Megias · December 11, 2025 · 3 min read