In this Q&A, Arts Economics founder Clare McAndrew explains why confidence is the art market’s most valuable currency, how generational and geographic shifts are redistributing power and why the next phase of growth will depend on transparency, diversification and redefining what counts as “art” in an expanding global economy.

From the launch of Refik Anadol’s DATALAND to the re-opening of Mexico City’s Museo Dolores Olmedo, there’s a lot to look forward to.

Her works are made on repurposed textiles: bed sheets and tablecloths, often passed down through generations. “They all already hold stories, carry memories and revive the legacy of other women for me,” the artist told Observer.

Jennifer Findley, an international art advisor and founder of the JFiN Collective, has built a career at the intersection of curatorial rigor, market strategy and cultural stewardship. As Oram Hotels’ newly appointed Director of Arts & Culture, she brings that perspective directly into hospitality development. In this Expert Insights Q&A, Findley joins Oram Hotels co-founder Kevin Mansour—whose real estate and investment expertise has shaped the group’s Southern California portfolio—to examine how embedding artists, institutions and cultural process into hotels from the earliest stages is redefining brand value, guest engagement and long-term asset identity. Together, they explore why art, when treated as infrastructure rather than ornament, can fundamentally reshape what hospitality delivers.

Performance art has a distinct urgency in Los Angeles, a city that is in a perpetual state of rehearsal.

Unlike highly choreographed fine art auctions, the results of the design sales are organic, not engineered through guarantees, irrevocable bids or elaborate staging.

Year-end results show rising sales, stronger sell-through rates and growing momentum in categories that suggest a shift in who is sustaining the market and how.

The digital section artists arrived at Art Basel with their legitimacy already established through peer-to-peer platforms, tools and communities native to the scene.

Her work, through its sustained engagement with memory and the possibilities of the future, stands as a testament to the enduring human urge to resist erasure.

Works across the show invite viewers into ritualistic and speculative encounters with posthuman possibilities and forgotten pasts.

In work that melds the natural with the technological, he foregrounds entanglements shaped by looping currents of life, depletion and reciprocity.

A new dual-venue exhibition traces nearly three decades of artistic evolution, from early experiments in gesture to meditative explorations of form and balance.