The numbers are finally in. To no one's surprise, they're down for 2024. But real news is in how the numbers reflect previous market cycles. We've been here before but there are also important differences. puck.news/art-market-fir…

The Battle for Paris has begun. With the Olympics bringing focus and attention to Paris, Christie's and Sotheby's are both ramping up their October sales in Paris. There's sure more to come: puck.news/auction-houses…

Auction totals are down a jarring 25% from the first half of last year. But new data from ARTDAI, which contextualizes the results with sales from the past decade, suggests we’ve been here before—a couple times. From Marion Maneker (Wall Power) puck.news/art-market-fir…

A $230M expansion of Buffalo’s groundbreaking fine art museum has anchored the city’s revival—offering a blueprint for other once-great American hubs looking to overlay a cosmopolitan future on a broad-shouldered past. From Marion Maneker (Wall Power) puck.news/buffalo-akg-ar…

SCOOP: Brian Nelson, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, will be running the Kamala Harris campaign's policy shop. (His title is still not set.) puck.news/what-will-kama…

Imagine you’re the curator of a major museum in the hinterlands, and you learn a once famous-turned-reclusive artist has bequeathed her entire estate to your museum... It’s the story of Marisol’s oeuvre and the Buffalo AKG, as told by Wall Power puck.news/buffalo-akg-ar…

Born in Guadeloupe, painter Guillaume Lethière rose to become the head of the French Academy in Rome—but is now almost entirely forgotten. Marion Maneker (Wall Power) examines the eye-opening revival being mounted by the Clark Institute and the Louvre. puck.news/rediscovering-…

Ever wonder how a billionaire art collector decides what to buy? I spoke to Jeffrey Gundlach, about how he started collecting, the best trade he ever made, and how he decided he could be the dynamite to unleash contributions to fund the Buffalo AKG. puck.news/buffalo-akg-pa…

Jeffrey Gundlach, the billionaire bond king turned art world patron, offers his views on the art market in conversation with Puck’s Marion Maneker (Wall Power), and explains why he’s reviving the museum that launched his collecting journey. puck.news/buffalo-akg-pa…

Sotheby’s has raised $1 billion from Abu Dhabi’s ADQ. Patrick Drahi to add capital to maintain majority control. instagram.com/reel/C-cyjLoRt…

What would you do if you had $1.88 billion in debt coming due? If you’re Patrick Drahi, you say take nearly a billion dollars from the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund puck.news/sothebys-plan-…

Hello, sports fans … When do you think the art market will come back? With the help of ARTDAI, we looked at data going back to 2007 to see if we could find market indicators. puck.news/finally-a-sign…

Using data from our friends at ARTDAI, we looked at the last 17 years of auction data trying to find indicators of when the market is turning. We think we found some positive signs in the numbers for the first half of this year. instagram.com/reel/C-sPclnxB…

Who would you blame when an young artist’s career blows up? If you’re the New York Times, you blame unnamed “speculators” even if the artists may have been only making art for speculators. puck.news/the-four-horse…

The Times profiled four artists whose work soared and then crashed at auction. But who’s *actually* to blame? Marion Maneker (Wall Power) explores. puck.news/the-four-horse…

A rigorous analysis of ARTDAI’s dataset shows that the concurrence of rising sell-through rates and an increase in the percentage of lots sold above estimates portends a strong season ahead—if these trends hold. From Marion Maneker (Wall Power) puck.news/finally-a-sign…

Michael Findlay arrived in New York in 1964 with a plan to hang out for a couple of weeks. Soon, he found himself in running a gallery in Soho, the center of the Contemporary art market where uptown and downtown (collectors and artists) met and mingled. puck.news/findlays-wake/

The first episode of The Varsity podcast with Puck sports business correspondent John Ourand is out now. Listen to his full conversation with Peyton Manning here: puck.news/podcast_episod…

“There is a sense this year that some on-the-bubble galleries really need to get money in the door or there might be serious consequences.” Read Marion Maneker’s (Wall Power) dispatch from the Armory Show: puck.news/positive-early…

The art market is in better health than we realize judging from New York's Armory Show and Independent art fairs last week. puck.news/newsletter_con…