What They Collect
American collecting — the auctions, the houses, and what changes hands.
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Wynwood Walls Opens Its Doors to Miamians at No Charge, With a Video Game Publisher Picking Up the Tab
Anyone who calls Miami home can now walk into Wynwood Walls, the city's museum of murals, without buying a ticket. The cost of that open door is being…
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A Table in New York for Anyone Who Spends the Day Looking at Art
Artnet News has teamed with Caper to publish a dining guide to New York built around the people who make, sell, show and buy art in the city. The list…
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Cindy Sherman Dresses in Cloth That Was Never Cut
Cindy Sherman has made herself the figure at the center of a new magazine devoted to art and culture, produced with the Chanel Culture Fund. For the p…
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Moore, Picasso and Arp Are Leaving the Tisch Walls for Christie's Block
Christie's will bring a group of works assembled by the Tisch family to sale. Among them are pieces by Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Jean Arp, three …
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Three Hundred Pieces From a Dealer's Vault Head to Sotheby's
Sotheby's is selling the contents of the A La Vieille Russie vault in a single sale of more than three hundred pieces, with the Russian maker collecto…
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In Tribeca, the Amenity Is on the Wall, and It Is a Keith Haring
A Tribeca apartment has come to market with an asking price of $25 million, and the piece that travels with the deed is a mural by Keith Haring. Becau…
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At the Met, a Curator Talks Through the Rockefeller Wing's Next Chapter
Alisa LaGamma, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, sat down for Artnet News's Lunch With Adam interview series to talk about the …
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Rockefeller Center Gets a Playful Makeover From Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf has reworked Rockefeller Center into something far more lighthearted than its usual self, and the editors at Galerie have placed it among…
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Rosé Joins the Room at LACMA's Art+Film Gala
Rosé of Blackpink has been added to this year's Art+Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The evening is the museum's benefit, now in its…
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Phillips Brings a $35 Million Modigliani Sculpture to New York This Season
Phillips will offer a sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani in its New York sales, with the house putting the figure at $35 million. Works in three dimension…
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Prints by Women Artists Are Drawing Fresh Attention at Auction
Prints by women artists are finding a receptive market right now, according to a new look at sales results. The figures suggest that the gaps collecto…
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A Backgammon Board Pairs a California Winery With a Maker of Fine Games
Silver Oak, the winery out of California, has joined forces with Throwing Doubles, the house known for its high-end games, on a backgammon board produ…
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Cyndi Lauper's Stage Wardrobe Is Changing Hands
Cyndi Lauper is parting with a selection of garments from her own closet, the singer confirmed in an interview with Artnet News. The pieces come from …
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A Hepworth That Sat for Lee Miller's Camera Is Coming to Christie's at Up to $10.5 Million
Christie's will offer Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture with Colour (Eos), and the house has set the top of its estimate at $10.5 million. The work carries…
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A Sunset Boulevard Coffee Shop Gave Googie Its Name
The movement that put swooping roofs and cantilevered signs on American boulevards takes its name from a single Los Angeles address. In 1949, Googie's…
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Concept Cars and Homemade Chairs Share a Floor at Detroit's Design Month
Detroit Month of Design marked its fifteenth year by putting General Motors concept cars in the same conversation as furniture built by hand in home w…
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Tenth Loewe and On Release Puts Three Artists in Front of the Camera
Loewe and On have reached their tenth joint release, and this one arrives as a full Fall Winter 2026 offering of footwear and ready-to-wear. The piece…
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A San Francisco Gallery Makes a Medium of Retired Machines
At tiat gallery in San Francisco, a new exhibition titled "Post Generation" takes as its material the artificial intelligence systems that turn writte…
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New York Gets the First Half of a Two-City Carrington and Vicuña Pairing
Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris are joining forces on a single exhibition split across two cities. It brings together the work of Leonora Carr…
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The Sith Lord's Blade Is About to Change Hands
A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back will be offered at auction this fall. The prop still carries the scuffs and nicks it picke…
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Fifteen Years In, Detroit's Design Festival Puts Concept Cars Beside Homemade Chairs
Detroit Month of Design marked its fifteenth edition this year with a program that ran from General Motors concept vehicles to furniture built by hand…
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Three Artists Front the Tenth Loewe and On Collaboration
Loewe and On have reached their tenth joint release, a Fall Winter 2026 offering of footwear and ready-to-wear built around the idea of artistic explo…
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Before It Was Armor, It Was Ore: Edith Hall Reads the Iliad From the Ground Up
Anyone who has stood before a case of ancient bronzes in an American museum has looked at the end of a story that starts in the earth. In her book *Ep…
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New Museum Gives Arthur Jafa a Full Retrospective in New York
Arthur Jafa is the subject of a retrospective at the New Museum in New York. A retrospective is the format a museum keeps for an artist whose work it …
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The Economist Who Counts What Collectors Buy
Clare McAndrew, the economist who produces the art market report published by Art Basel and UBS, has looked back over ten years of tracking the trade …
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Klimt Has Joined the Short List at the Top of the Public Auction Record
Gustav Klimt's paintings now sit alongside the highest prices ever reached in open bidding, a level very few artists have ever reached. For readers in…
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Lichtenstein Gets a Quiet, Confident Showing at the Whitney
The Whitney Museum in New York has mounted a survey of Roy Lichtenstein, and the critical verdict is a warm one. Artnet News describes the exhibition …
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Jeff Koons Turns Consignor as Nine Works from His Own Walls Head to Christie's
The artist whose balloon animals set records at the rostrum is now sending pictures the other way. Christie's has added nine pieces owned personally b…
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Julianne Moore Keeps a Bourgeois and a Goldin at Home in the West Village
The actor's residence in the West Village holds pieces by three artists whose names carry weight in any serious contemporary collection: Louise Bourge…
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The Baum Collection Has Chosen Its Auction House
Sotheby's has secured the sale of the collection built by Ted and Ruth Baum, a consignment reported to carry a figure of $100 million. A consignment a…
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The Oldest Partnership in Any Household Took Its Time
The dog at the foot of the chair did not arrive there overnight. According to a new account, the bond between Ice Age wolves and the people who hunted…
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The Bowery Gets Its Own Exhibition at the New Museum
The New Museum has mounted "The Bowery: Devil's Mile," an exhibition devoted to the street the institution itself calls home. Its subject is the Bower…
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Ten Women Who Painted the Unseen, Gathered in One Place
For collectors drawn to work made at the edge of the visible, ARTnews has assembled a primer on ten women artists working across the nineteenth and tw…
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A New Gallery and Mastrangelo's Cast Pieces Anchor October's Design Calendar
Galerie has drawn up a list of nine collectible design exhibitions worth seeing this month. Two of them stand out for anyone who buys furniture the wa…
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Cooper Union's Chrysler Building Ground Lease Is Now a Scholarship Fund
The most famous spire in Manhattan has a new job: paying for engineering, architecture and art students to attend school on the house. Cooper Union ha…
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A Founder Makes the Buyer's Case for Broader Gallery Programs
Hall W Rockefeller is behind a new AI tool built to help galleries bring more women and non-binary artists into the stable of names they represent. Th…
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In New York's Opening Fall Sales, Bidders Saved Their Paddles for the Pieces That Mattered
The fall auction season's first major sales are in the books, and New York's salesrooms told a story of discipline rather than abandon. Bidders held b…
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Prints, a Century of One Medium and a Color Field Life: Where Artnet's Specialists Are Looking
Artnet Auctions has asked its own specialists what is holding their attention this month, and the answers lean toward the considered end of the trade.…
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Krasner Gets Equal Billing With Pollock in a New Artnet Conversation
Art historian Mary Gabriel has sat down with Ben Davis for an Artnet News conversation devoted to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, two of the central …
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The Artist Behind LOVE Gets a Fresh Reading in a New Phaidon Book
Robert Indiana, the painter and sculptor whose stacked letters spelling LOVE became one of the most recognizable images in American art, is the subjec…
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Before Anyone Wrote a Word, Someone Was Already Making Instruments
The first makers worked in bone, hollowed and pierced so it would sing, and in hide, pulled tight so it would answer a hand. Those objects came before…
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Jenny Holzer, Rose Wylie and Xu Zhen Are Heading for the Slopes
Three sculptures are joining the open-air collection kept by the Powder Art Foundation in time for the 2026-27 winter. The additions come from Jenny H…
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Hammer Museum Names a New Chair to Lead Its Board
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has a new chair at the head of its board of trustees. The change was noted in ARTnews's roundup of industry appointme…
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What Ted and Ruth Baum Collected: Rothko, Ruscha, Mitchell, Klein and a $100 Million Sale at Sotheby's
Sotheby's will bring the collection of Ted and Ruth Baum to auction, a group of works the house has placed at $100 million. At the front of the sale a…
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A New Name on the Hudson: Gochman Collection Opens Branchline This November
The Gochman Family Collection has settled on what to call its Hudson Valley home. The space will go by Branchline, and it opens to visitors in Novembe…
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New Design Roundup Tracks What Just Came to Market
Galerie has published a fresh installment of its recurring look at the newest pieces in furniture, lighting, textiles and decorative objects. The colu…
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Where a Collection Begins, and Who Gets to See It
The newest Art Basel and UBS survey of high-net-worth collectors finds artificial intelligence taking a growing role in how the most affluent buyers g…
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Gallery Records From New York's Storied Dealers Can Now Be Read From Anywhere
The archives of several of New York's most celebrated galleries have been made available online, opening a trove of dealer records to anyone with a sc…
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Sigmar Polke Never Painted for Permanence, and Kenny Schachter Takes Him at His Word
Kenny Schachter's latest column looks at Sigmar Polke and the poisonous materials Polke brought into his work. At its center is something Polke once s…
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For Collectors, a Rare Chance to Bid on Stanley Kubrick's Curiosities
Stanley Kubrick's archive is going up for auction. The first report describes it as full of unusual objects, so it is more than a box of paper. That m…
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