Seven Artists to Watch Into 2027 — and What Would Invalidate Each Thesis
Not a shopping list. A set of trades with disciplined exits. The names, the catalysts, and the evidence that would tell you to walk away.
The Death of Flipping Has Been Announced Before. This Time Is Actually Different.
Lockups, resale rights, and dealer blacklists have made the short-hold trade structurally uneconomic. The market is finally rewriting the incentives.
AI Art’s Valuation Problem Is Not What You Think It Is
The question isn’t whether AI images can be good. It’s whether any AI work has the structural scarcity to hold a price outside its own ecosystem.
The Next Wave of Women Painters: What the Data Actually Says
We pulled five years of evening sale results and museum acquisitions. The correction on women painters isn’t what the press releases tell you.
Digital Scarcity Is Back — Just Not Where You Were Looking
The edition is the oldest trick in the art market. New platforms have quietly figured out how to make it work online. That’s the real digital thesis.
Museums Will Buy Less. That’s the Story of the Next Five Years.
Acquisition budgets are flat, fundraising is soft, and deaccession pressure is rising. Institutions are about to stop being the buyer of last resort.
The $100M Problem: Why the Top of the Market Is Getting Narrower
The number of artists capable of producing a $100 million lot is stuck at roughly twenty. It’s getting harder to get on the list and easier to fall off.
Gallery Consolidation Is Almost Finished. The Next Phase Is Worse.
The mega-galleries have absorbed the mid-tier. The next wave won’t be mergers — it’ll be the slow winnowing of the ecosystem that made the megas possible.
What Comes After Kusama? A Short Answer and a Long One.
Kusama was not a trend. She was a decade-long market structure. Replacing her at the top of global volume is a harder question than it looks.
The Next Art Market Correction Is Already Happening. You’re Just Not Seeing It.
It doesn’t look like 2009. It looks like a slow, asymmetric widening of bid-ask that’s visible only if you watch withdrawn lots and buy-ins.