Miami and the Unmasking of a Slowing Market – 2025
Two weeks after the major New York auction houses collectively achieved over $2.2 billion in sales, the art world naturally expected this momentum to spill over into Art Basel Miami, an extension of the end-of-year market cycle that traditionally attracts an active mix of American and Latin American collectors.
However, this year told a different story. The market’s apparent vitality proved to be an illusion: very few key clients are on the ground, the usual excitement is noticeably absent, preview purchases were limited, and several Brazilian galleries even withdrew entirely from the fair, choosing instead to prioritise the increasingly strategic Paris edition. Among them are Luisa Strina and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (absent since 2024), joined by international galleries that represent major Brazilian artists, such as Alison Jacques for Lygia Clark or Peter Kilchmann for Fernanda Gomes, who also opted not to return this year.
New York Auction Results: The Fall of Brazilian Historical Lots – November 2025
The Fall 2025 auction season in New York delivered a strong and self-assured performance for the global Post-War and Contemporary market. Across the major houses, robust totals reaffirmed the sector’s resilience and highlighted major shifts in capital flows.
Sotheby’s emerged as the clear leader, surpassing $1.1B in total sales for the season, driven by two major engines: the landmark sale Leonard A. Lauder, Collector (over $530M) and The Now & Contemporary Evening Auction, which alone achieved $178.5M. Christie’s followed closely, reaching approximately $964.5M during its marquee week, marked by $471.7M from the 20th Century Evening Sale and $218M generated by the Collection of Robert E. and Patricia G. Ross Weis.
Brazilian Artists to Invest in: What Every Collector Should Know
On the eve of the opening of our exhibition Cosmogonias Brasileiras at Natalie Seroussi on Saturday, October 4, we invite you to take a closer look at the artists behind the show, and why their positions in the international art market are increasingly compelling. This is particularly significant in Paris, during the Brazil-France Year, which has played a pivotal role in shaping international collections, and just ahead of the Brazil–UK Season, opening in London with Frieze in a matter of days.
Brazilian Cosmogonies: Revisiting the Concept of Memory
On October 4, 2025, Sophie Su invites the public to the opening of Brazilian Cosmogonies, an exhibition presented in collaboration with Natalie Seroussi as part of the France-Brazil Season. Conceived as a curatorial journey, the show intertwines modern and contemporary voices to explore how myths, memory, and identity continue to be shaped by the scars of colonization and the power of cultural reappropriation. Structured around cosmogonies, symbols, and vital forces, Brazilian Cosmogonies resonates with Indigenous cosmologies, Afro-descendant legacies, modernist reinterpretations, and contemporary expressions of ancestry. It proposes a visual and conceptual dialogue in which ancestral mythologies converge with avant-garde experimentation and living artistic practices. But to grasp the true stakes of this exhibition, one must return to the roots of Brazil itself.
Beyond Borders, Against Silence: Reading the 36th São Paulo Bienal – 2025
The 36th Bienal de São Paulo, titled Not All Travellers Walk Roads — Of Humanity as Practice, opens with a reminder that being human is not a state but a practice. And if it were a verb, one we must enter every single day, how do we conjugate it? As chief curator Bonaventure Ndikung recalls through Rumi’s lines in The Guest House, “Being human is a guest house, every morning a new arrival.” Joy, sorrow, or meanness, all are visitors we must welcome.
ArtRio 2025: A Snapshot of Brazil’s Contemporary Art
ArtRio has consolidated itself as one of the leading art fairs in Latin America. In 2024, its 14th edition gathered around 90 exhibitors and welcomed over 60,000 visitors, attracting international collectors and curators from museums and private collections. Highlights such as the Contemporary Brazil program and the Sculpture Garden reinforced the relevance of Brazilian production, including Indigenous artists, even amid global economic challenges.
Bombs Fall, But the Art Basel Bubble Shines – 2025
Amid the uncertainties of a shaken world, with the war in Iran quietly reverberating through hallway conversations, Art Basel 2025 opened its doors with a surprisingly buoyant energy. On VIP day, the atmosphere was electric, lively, even playful, as collectors and curators circled each booth with sharpened focus, as if art itself offered a necessary refuge from the chaos beyond.
One shift was impossible to ignore: the notable absence of American buyers. Instead, the fair was dominated by a sophisticated European clientele, discreet collectors, seasoned buyers, and a strong presence of curators from major museums and institutions.