The art world saw a flurry of activity in 2022, with the return of the global secondary market, splashy auction debuts, and staggering new records set. Our year-end market report looks at the major sales, trends, and artists that made an impact in 2022.
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The sunflower, which Van Gogh once saw as decorative, later become something almost sacred, a symbol that represented light itself, an ideal of an honest life lived in nature.
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On the centennial of Lucian Freud’s birth, Somaya Critchlow has curated an exhibition charting the evolution of the late artist’s six-decade-long art practice.
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Imagining the unibrowed self-portraitist hobnobbing with the eccentric painter of abstracted flora is a fantastic and downright fun image.
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Contrary to popular belief, af Klint was intermittently connected to both mainstream society and the Swedish artistic vanguard—yet she chose to believe that the world was not ready to understand and accept what she knew was groundbreaking work.
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The canvas, which features two clothed men and two women—one half-dressed and the other nude—picnicking in a verdant grove, has inspired too many interpretations to count.
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Made from salvaged textiles, Tau Lewis’s latest sculptures connect viewers to the spiritually unknown in her solo show “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” at 52 Walker.
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The trials of ancient Greek heroes and monsters have served as inspiration for Renaissance masters, Surrealists, and conceptual artists alike.
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Chance the Rapper has recently turned his focus to visual art, collaborating with painters and photographers on an interdisciplinary series of new music.
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Jacob Lawrence's revolutionary paintings and extensive teachings inspired countless artists and activists—and will for generations to come.
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Anna Weyant is emerging as a top talent whose solo show with Gagosian, “Baby, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over,” closes out an incredible 2022 for the painter.
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In 16th century Europe, it was fashionable for men to be sad and thoughtful.
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How Ophelia—Hamlet’s rejected lover, who drowns tragically in a river—became the defining muse of a critical art historical era.
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Acaye Kerunen, Allison Katz, and Chase Hall are among the artists who made great career leaps this year by joining the rosters of major galleries.
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The Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes—destined to be known simply as Goya—painted what he saw, and what he saw wasn’t pretty.
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Works by Salman Toor, Issy Wood, Norman Lewis, and Alice Neel were among the highlights of Artsy Auctions in 2022.
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The public’s reaction was so vehement that Sargent moved out of the country, and his high-society model’s reputation was forever tarnished.
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Few artworks sum up the wild ecstasy and weirdness of lust better than Hieronymus Bosch’s famed triptych.
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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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