Wall Power

[Puck @PuckNews]

The director of Ridgefield’s overachieving contemporary art museum is turning her institution’s gaze to Connecticut artists, making a case for the Constitution State as something more than the land of finance bros and old WASPs.

More from @MarionManeker: https://t.co/DwpP43Xu4c

[Puck @PuckNews]

In its sixth year, London Gallery Weekend isn’t just supporting nascent galleries and luring 50,000 art enthusiasts to town. It’s fortifying London’s place as a major art city.

More from @MarionManeker: https://t.co/aJElifEVwL

[Puck @PuckNews]

A joint interview with the heads of Sotheby’s day sales on the depth of last week’s sales, the importance of estates in driving them, and the enduring thrill of selling another Hopper.

More from the conversation with @MarionManeker: https://t.co/STy9xMGg5P

[Puck @PuckNews]

A timely look at the market themes, top lots, and various peculiarities of a short, buoyant New York auction cycle that still seemed unusually long.

More from @MarionManeker: https://t.co/rEMEkjDNoi

[Puck @PuckNews]

A timely look at the market themes, top lots, and various peculiarities of a short, buoyant New York auction cycle that still seemed unusually long.

More from @MarionManeker: https://t.co/rEMEkjDNoi

[Puck @PuckNews]

The May auctions continued to thrill at Christie’s, with new bidding records for the mainstays of modernism. And the art-hoovering skylords of finance dropped the G.D.P. of a small country on the Si Newhouse collection.

@MarionManeker has more: https://t.co/RcCYt7LvFW

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

Andy Warhol’s ‘Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482)’ achieves USD $9,103,000 in tonight’s 20th Century Evening Sale.

Warhol isolates the central element from Botticelli’s 'Birth of Venus,' concentrating on Venus’s visage and billowing hair.

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

Remedios Varo’s ‘EnergÍa cósmica (Inspiración)’ from the Ovalle Family Collection achieves USD $4,467,000 in tonight’s 20th Century Evening Sale, setting a new auction record for a work on paper by the artist.

Follow along: https://t.co/IBJasg9DO4

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

Camille Pissarro’s 'Meule et vaches dans le pré à Eragny, soleil couchant' from From the Garden: An Important Private Collection achieves USD $4,101,000 in tonight’s 20th Century Evening Sale.

Follow along: https://t.co/IBJasg9DO4

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

Childe Hassam’s 'Across the Avenue in Sunlight, June 1918' achieves USD $10,410,000 in tonight’s 20th Century Evening Sale.

Hassam was first inspired to paint his seminal flag series following the Preparedness Parade of May 13, 1916.

[Christie's @ChristiesInc]

Alice Neel’s ‘Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia)’ from Figure & Form: The Diane and David Goldsmith Collection achieves USD $5,687,000 in tonight’s 20th Century Evening Sale, marking a new record for the artist.

This is the first double portrait which Alice Neel made of her daughter-in-law and her first grandchild.

[Puck @PuckNews]

This May’s sales are dominated by big collections—Newhouse, Mnuchin, et al.—but a handful of competitive discretionary sales will ultimately reveal more about the state of the market and the competition between the houses.

@MarionManeker digs in: https://t.co/qM5PmvhMXt

[Puck @PuckNews]

Last night's numbers from Sotheby’s were strong—the Mnuchin sale totaled $166 million, and the various owners’ sale made nearly $267 million—but the market still hasn’t rebuilt the confidence needed to see real momentum again.

@MarionManeker reports: https://t.co/gCPnpc8EBb

[Puck @PuckNews]

Joris Laarman, the sustainable-chic Dutch furniture designer, is back with his first gallery show in more than a decade—and perhaps right when his market needs it most.

@IngridAbram has more: https://t.co/v7KCukIkpl

[Puck @PuckNews]

"Si Newhouse Jr.’s latest tranche of art, it’s no exaggeration to say, might just save the market," writes @MarionManeker.

The sale is a testament to both the Condé Nast owner’s limitless, keen-eyed collecting and Christie’s ability to stage it.

https://t.co/ZqSbeLe6Gb

[Puck @PuckNews]

Despite the fraught geopolitical climate, May sales are extremely top-heavy—with 22 lots estimated at $20 million-plus, nearly triple the May 2025 inventory.

The world is on fire, and the art market is really heating up, too.

@MarionManeker has more: https://t.co/r5Rr54C6W6

[Puck @PuckNews]

Despite the fraught geopolitical climate, May sales are extremely top-heavy—with 22 lots estimated at $20 million-plus, nearly triple the May 2025 inventory.

The world is on fire, and the art market is really heating up, too.

@MarionManeker has more: https://t.co/r5Rr54C6W6

[Puck @PuckNews]

"Si Newhouse Jr.’s latest tranche of art, it’s no exaggeration to say, might just save the market," writes @MarionManeker.

The sale is a testament to both the Condé Nast owner’s limitless, keen-eyed collecting and Christie’s ability to stage it.

https://t.co/ZqSbeLe6Gb

[Puck @PuckNews]

This year, Salone del Mobile was nearly overtaken by luxury brands, Martha Stewart, and anyone hoping to capitalize on its moneyed clientele. After all, if you’re willing to plunk down six figures for a sofa, what’s a handbag or two?

@IngridAbram reports: https://t.co/QRozRKa8Q1

[Puck @PuckNews]

The art world is flying to Paris for the Alexander Calder retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton—timed to 100 years since Calder's first Paris arrival and 50 years since his death.

@MarionManeker on why everyone's booking flights right now: https://t.co/VIIXshgt3I