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Venus Over Manhattan

Visitors walk past a booth where people use self-checkout stations beneath a digital counter displaying a running total, creating a scene that blends retail cues with art fair activity.

Observer’s 2025 Art Market Recap: Recovery After a Year of Recalibration

On the cusp of 2026, optimism is returning to the art world, tempered by a growing recognition that its next chapter will demand structural reinvention.
By Elisa Carollo
A bustling scene inside Art Basel featuring gallery booths with contemporary paintings, where blurred motion captures the flow of visitors walking past the Levy Gorvy Dayan booth as groups of collectors engage with artworks under bright gallery lighting.

ADAA Hits Pause On The Art Show as Dealers Question Whether Fairs Are Still Worth It

Although fairs like Art Basel and Frieze continue to inspire collector loyalty, mid-sized galleries are questioning whether the rising costs, booth politics and selection opacity are worth it.
By Elisa Carollo
A photo of Massimo De Carlo wrapped in duct tape on a pristine white gallery wall captures the performative, absurd, and slightly cruel edge of A Perfect Day.

What If the Art World Isn’t Collapsing But Changing Hands as It Should?

We need to start looking at prominent gallery closures as a natural passing of the torch.
By Elisa Carollo
Image of a man walkimng on a pink carpet.

Early Sales and Excitement at Art Basel Miami Beach Signal Revived Optimism

By Elisa Carollo
Painting of a nude oman with a man in her belly and talking with a bird

What to Expect from This Year’s Independent 20th Century Fair

By Elisa Carollo
Paintings by David Diao at Office Baroque's booth at the Independent art fair.

The Independent Fair’s New Tribeca Home is the Best Place to View Art This Week

By Alanna Martinez
Ms. Goldberger taking a rare break.

Director of Bill Powers’ Half Gallery Branches Out with Chinatown Space

By Ryan Steadman
(Illustration by Hanna Barczyk)

The Art World’s Biggest Lie: A Collector Debunks Art as an Investment

By Adam Lindemann
A general view of a Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey sculpture outside of Sotheby's. (Photo by Ben Hider/Getty Images)

Why I’m Worried About the Art World: Adam Lindemann on the Sizzle vs. the Steak

By Adam Lindemann
Maurizio Cattelan. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

You Can Now Watch the Trailer for ‘Maurizio Cattelan: The Movie’

By Nate Freeman
Installation view of "Still Life.: (Courtesy Nahmad Contemporary)

What Is This Mysterious Two-Piece Dan Flavin/Alex Israel Show at Nahmad Contemporary?

By Nate Freeman
The Mozart portrait in question. (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Art World Abstracts: The Portrait Mozart Gave to His Cousin-Slash-Lover, and More!

By Nate Freeman
Simon de Pury at Venus Over Manhattan.

Simon de Pury Fury: The Mod Auction King’s Two Hot Shows

By Nate Freeman

10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before September 19

By Nate Freeman and Alanna Martinez
Works by Leavitt and Thomson at Gavin Brown's Enterprise. (Courtesy GBE)

‘Made in Space’ at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan

By Andrew Russeth
(Illustration by Breet Alfrunti)

Moving on Up: The Avant-Garde Returns to the Upper East Side

By M.H. Miller

Man Up: Macho Men Take Upper East Side Galleries—Too Much Testosterone?

By Andrew Russeth

Jack Goldstein’s ‘Two Fencers’ Is Being Performed Tonight at 10

By Andrew Russeth

Darren Bader’s Bulletin Board at Venus Over Manhattan

By Andrew Russeth
(Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan)

Venus Over Manhattan Plans ‘Bulletin Board’ Show

By Andrew Russeth

Signs of the Times: Why Are Contemporary Art Dealers Looking to Fin-de-Siècle France?

By Maika Pollack

$150,000 Dalí Stolen From Adam Lindemann’s Venus Over Manhattan Gallery

By Andrew Russeth

What Do Documenta 13 and Art Collector Adam Lindemann Have in Common?

By Andrew Russeth
Jeff Koons, " Violet-Ice (Kama Sutra)," 1991. Colored Murano glass, 13 x 27 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan)

What’s in Adam Lindemann’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Hint: It’s Probably Out of Fashion)

By Sarah Douglas
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