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We offer a look at the artists gathering the most attention from collectors on Artsy, divided into two categories: established and emerging.
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The big, blissed-out state of California terrified photographer Dennis Stock when he first visited it in the 1950s—but it also enthralled him.
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From the range of auction records set this year, we offer insights on 10 momentous sales, spanning works by 20th-century masters and leading emerging artists.
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It was undoubtedly a banner year for the ultra-contemporary market, with emerging artists’ works setting dozens of striking records and marking big debuts.
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Mondrian consistently questioned and reinvented his work—all while navigating countless personal and professional challenges. His wisdom touches on the importance of self-advocacy, camaraderie, exposure to new environments, and patience.
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Some of the biggest sales at auction in 2022 included works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Lucian Freud.
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Matisse left behind dozens of texts that make clear his thoughts on what it truly means to be an artist.
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Contemporary women artists of color are reclaiming textile-based practices to weave old and new narratives about their familial and ancestral existence.
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Our year-end market report looks at the major sales, trends, and artists that made an impact in 2022. All insights are from the Artsy Price Database.
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For over four decades, artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has unveiled history’s ugly truths, prevailing against repeated vandalism and erasure.
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Curators share their favorite public artworks of the year, from Hew Locke’s “Foreign Exchange” to Shirin Neshat’s “Woman. Life. Freedom.”
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For 37 years, Bellinger has collected more than 1,700 artworks that center artists’ creativity, inside and outside of the studio.
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Wangari Mathenge bypasses the rhetoric surrounding Black art and figurative painting and gets to what matters more: the human experience.
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Susan Chen’s intuitive ability to tap into shared experiences within the Asian diaspora makes her paintings particularly relevant and relatable.
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In the December edition of “Artists on Our Radar,” we feature Geoffrey Holder, Minyoung Kim, DeMarco Mosby, Lorena Torres, and TJ Rinoski.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Art are expanding the demographic and tastes of collectors in the United Arab Emirates capital.
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With the pandemic-induced upheaval of 2020 and 2021, the art market in 2022 was in some ways a return to routine, but in others, unprecedented.
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Recessionary fears are impacting global markets, and the art market is not immune. Historically, as the economy impacts the stock market, the art market lags behind.
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Beyond MSCHF’s viral ATM, see the standout sales that took place in Miami last week, including works by Keith Haring, Michael Armitage, Calida Rawles, and more.
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Depicting her hometown, the desert city of Riyadh, Alia Ahmad imagines a new kind of landscape—one embedded with a sense of community.
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During Miami Art Week, Malin Gallery is mounting a powerful show of 42 artists considering the racist foundations of the U.S. national anthem.
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Highlights from the 11th edition of Untitled Art, Miami Beach, include paintings by Devan Shimoyama, Yulia Iosilzon, and Yoora Lee.
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Currently the subject of three career-defining retrospectives, artist William Kentridge uses animation to uncover fragments of forgotten histories.
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As Art Basel in Miami Beach celebrates its 20th anniversary, take a tour of these fairs situated all over the city.
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While plenty of auction records were broken this past month, most works went for sums well within their estimates.
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Made with a delicate hand, Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s ghostly vignettes capture the disgraced corners of the imagination, finding resonance with many.
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Influenced by Dutch Old Masters, self-taught artist Alexis Ralaivao paints diffused portraits of exacting details, like a zoomed-in version of a Rembrandt.
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Despite market trepidation, the fair’s 190 galleries reported good sales.
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At major art fairs, it’s common to find that the most desirable artworks have sold before the VIP preview begins.
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In Anthony Akinbola’s experimental practice, the everyday stuff of Black life is assembled into fulsome arrays of texture and hues.
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Anthony Cudahy is that peculiar thing, a serious painter who’s also an unpredictable storyteller.
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Across experiential net art, meditative video games, and uncanny 3D-printed sculptures, Auriea Harvey has long been committed to the digital.
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Audacity and community helped the 26-year-old Cierra Britton open her eponymous gallery this past September in Lower Manhattan.
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Theaster Gates’s first museum survey exhibition, “Young Lords and Their Traces,” is an astonishing compendium of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice.
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Following a spiritual rebirth after the artist’s battle with cancer, Guadalupe Maravilla’s work purges psychic and physical illnesses to heal colonial wounds.
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Maria A. Guzmán Capron creates new mythologies and visual languages in her art to reflect her own experience negotiating multiculturalism’s dualities.
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With each exhibition, Michaela Yearwood-Dan strives to create a space not just for art, but for stillness, reflection, and indulgence.
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Oscar yi Hou isn’t looking to fill a gap in Asian American representation with his paintings. Instead, he wants to question more fundamental power structures.
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Qualeasha Wood’s fiberworks capture her experiences in the digital age—encounters that veer from idolatry and fetishization to digital surveillance and doxxing.
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