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Art Market Experts

Insightful commentary on the most important trends impacting today’s art world, written by business leaders with rare understandings of how and why art is collected, invested in, supported and appreciated. Observer Arts Contributors bring fresh lenses to the topics that matter most in today’s art market—sharing all of that (and more) with our audience of arts and culture enthusiasts. Read more Expert Insights.

A small yellow flower held between two hands, one hand gently passing it to the other, set against a blurred natural background.

When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why Photography Needs Community More Than Ever

FotoFocus's executive director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth reflects on the growing importance of in-person, community-centered engagement with photography at a moment when generative A.I. and digital mediation increasingly threaten the medium's power to document reality and stimulate public discourse.
By Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth

How Fashion Exhibitions Became Laboratories for Interdisciplinary Thinking

The Brooklyn Museum's senior curator of fashion and material culture Matthew Yokobosky explains how treating fashion as art can reveal the relationships between human and machine, between microscopic structures and universal forms and between natural phenomena and manufactured mediums.
By Matthew Yokobosky
A small black-walled exhibition room displays comic-style drawings, a sculptural white shell form and a black-and-white striped garment mounted on a mannequin.

Exhibition as Experience: The Turn Toward Building Worlds, Not Walls

Art advisor Jennifer Findley of JFiN Collective considers how lighting, spatial choreography and archival material are increasingly defining what an exhibition can be. Taste, scent and touch, she says, are no longer supplementary but structural.
By Jennifer Findley
A man in a striped shirt stands at a podium in front of a screen displaying a purple cake.

Trust-Based Funding Works. So Why Are Artists Still Living in Precarity?

By Mary Jane Edwards
Students attend an educational program in the Gothic Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts Wednesday, June 2, 2016.

The Complete Collector: What Isabella Stewart Gardner Built

By Megan Fox Kelly
A red-toned illustration shows a man sitting beside a bed, leaning over a sleeping woman with a cloth pressed to her face, while his shadow looms on the wall and a small horse sculpture sits on a bedside table.

The Politics of Print: What the Medium’s Last Renaissance Can Teach Us About Our Current Market

By Jenny Gibbs
A grid of art book covers

The Long View: 11 Art Books That Ask Us to Look Again

By Megan Fox Kelly
A gallery assistant poses for a photograph with an artwork entitled 'Wellesley Girls, 1967' by US artist Alice Neel during a press preview of 'Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle' at the Barbican Art Gallery in London on February 15, 2023.

How Philanthropy Is Reshaping the Global Art Ecosystem

By Gilles de Greling
Professional portrait of Lina Ghotmeh, founder of LG—A, wearing a red blouse. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Architect, LG—A," on the right side.

Lina Ghotmeh Is Reimagining Cultural Architecture for a Connected World

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, wearing a black blazer and white shirt. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Cultural Economist, Arts Economics," on the right side.

Clare McAndrew On Why the Art Market’s Future Lies Beyond the $10 Million Sale

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Jennifer Findley and Kevin Mansour

Art as Infrastructure: How Cultural Programming Is Redefining Luxury Hospitality


By Sonia Rubeck
A view of Art Basel Paris 2025 at the Grand Palais

A Calibrated Market: How 2025 Shaped the Landscape for Collectors in 2026

By Megan Fox Kelly
Oliver Barker presides over Sotheby's Evening Sale on November 18, 2025

Inside the November Marquee Auctions: What the Market’s Biggest Week Really Revealed

By Megan Fox Kelly
Professional portrait of Martin Wilson, CEO of Phillips. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with his name and title "CEO, Phillips" on the right side.

Phillips CEO Martin Wilson: The Great Wealth Transfer Is Also a Great Taste Transfer

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Megan Fox Kelly, veteran art advisor, looking over her shoulder and smiling. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Principal, Megan Fox Kelly Art Advisory" on the right side.

Megan Fox Kelly On Why the Future of Art Advising Is About Strategy, Not Access

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Katherine E. Fleming, president & CEO of J. Paul Getty Trust. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with his name and title "President & CEO, Phillips" on the right side.

J. Paul Getty Trust CEO Katherine E. Fleming On the Museum’s Changing Role

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Maria Brito, CEO of Maria Brito, LLC, wearing a hot pink jumpsuit in an eclectically decorated room. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "CEO, Maria Brito, LLC," on the right side.

Maria Brito On Democratizing the Art World Without Diluting Its Excellence

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Jeffrey Yin, CEO of Artsy, sitting down and smiling with his elbows on his knees. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with his name and title "CEO, Artsy" on the right side.

Artsy CEO Jeffrey Yin: The Next Era of Collecting Will Be Personal, Transparent and Global

By The Editors
Professional portrait of Antwuan Sargent, director of Gagosian, wearing a beanie and suit. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Director, Gagosian," on the right side.

Antwaun Sargent On Shifting the Balance of Power Toward Artists

By The Editors
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Andrew Wolff Wants to Build the Operating System for the Global Art Market

By The Editors
Jimi Hendrix's guitar laid flat in front of a wall of his performances at an exhibition at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture

When Algorithms Curate Culture, What Do We Lose?

By Michele Y. Smith
Teenagers walk past a poster depicting Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci in a street of Rome, after a holy mass in the Vatican a day after the funeral of Pope Francis,

The Myth of the Digital Threat: How Technology Expands Art’s Reach

By Arline Mann
Painting by Tom Friedman depicting discarded art materials

Beautiful Trash: Sustainability as Condition, Not Cure, in Contemporary Art

By Jennifer Findley
MiG team working in Johannesburg

The Myth of the Lone Creative Genius: Why Collective Artmaking Matters Now

By Ralph Ziman
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