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In 1989, as the art market roared, the critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote deliciously about attending his very first auction, a marquee November sale in New York at Christie’s. He saw “finely tailored feeders at the art trough clutching their bidding paddles,” and mentioned reserves, estimates, hammers, and other specialized terms. Some 35 years later, those annual auctions are running again, filled with high drama, displays of extravagant wealth—and plenty of jargon.

Spring House, the only private residence in Florida designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is on the market for $2.1 million. In 1950, Clifton Lewis, a member of a prominent Tallahassee banking family, approached Wright while he was designing Florida Southern College’s campus and asked if the architect would design a house for her family. Wright suggested she first find a suitable parcel of land, one not on a lot, and then get in touch.

For more than 25 years, artist Nicoleta Albei-Wigger has dedicated her practice to exploring the unending expressive power of abstraction, solidifying herself as a mainstay within the Berlin art scene. She achieved a career highlight with the opening of her eponymous gallery in the city’s iconic Living Berlin, allowing her to bring her creative vision to a wider audience.

A long-lost Nazi-looted painting found in Argentina has been turned over to officials after its current owners were placed under house arrest.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is taking legal action against the Dutch state after it refused to finance planned maintenance works that the institution says are vital. It alleges that, by failing to help the museum fund its ambitious $121 million “Masterplan 2028” project, the culture ministry is going back on a promise it made to the artist’s heir over 60 years ago.

Star artist Jeff Koons is returning to the mega-gallery Gagosian after a four-year hiatus with Pace. Previously, over the course of two decades, Gagosian did 13 solo exhibitions with Koons at its branches in Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, London, and New York, showcasing series like “Celebration” (1994–2019), “Easyfun–Ethereal” (2000–02), “Popeye” (2002–13), and “Gazing Ball” (2012–), which rival David Zwirner also presented.

Art market watchers with a long memory may recall that it was about a decade ago that Lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood started attracting art galleries itching to leave Chelsea’s rising rents and property taxes. Postmasters and Taymour Grahne opened spaces in 2013, followed by Alexander and Bonin in 2016, and on one night in 2019, Canada, James Cohan, Andrew Kreps, and PPOW all opened, cementing the area as the hot gallery hotspot it remains today.

Sometime in the 8th century C.E., the Christian community that had been living for hundreds of years on Sir Bani Yas, an island in the Arabian Gulf, packed up and walked away. At a time when relations between Muslims and Christians were growing increasingly fractious, the island, which today lies five miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, had been a somewhat rare site of peaceful coexistence.

What was long optimistically termed the “encyclopedic museum” emerged during the European Enlightenment as an instrument for organizing knowledge, educating and even reforming its target audiences, even as it affirmed nationalistic impulses. The very first museum in a sense in which we might understand the term—a place both collecting and presenting objects and welcoming the public—was attached to a university, the University of Oxford, the fruit of an early and extraordinary act of philanthropy.