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.
From London Whispers to Paris Booms: Art Basel 2025
The closure of several major galleries in London, from the legendary Marlborough last year to Almine Rech last week, signals a decisive shift in the post-Brexit art landscape. Once Europe’s undisputed market hub, London is now losing momentum, as more than 16,500 millionaires are expected to leave the UK this year alone, according to the Henley & Partners Wealth Migration Report. They take with them not only capital but confidence, leaving behind a scene in quiet recalibration. Traditional gallery models are being rethought, expansion plans paused, and cost-cutting has become the new mantra less is more.
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.
ABERTO Paris: le rendez-vous des tropiques, quand la géométrie rencontre l’ intuition – May 2025
In the heart of Paris, a new chapter unfolds. Finalized in 1925, the same year as the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, the Villa La Roche, Le Corbusier’s iconic architectural statement, stands as a bold counterpoint to the ornamental trends of its time. Nearly a century later, this modernist landmark becomes the stage for a vibrant encounter: Brazilian art steps into its clean lines and luminous spaces, revealing unexpected dialogues between two nations bound by creative tensions and shared aspirations.
France–Brazil : Centuries of Interwoven Visions in Art – 2025
The cultural season between France and Brazil has officially begun — and it’s more than a celebration; it’s a centuries-long story of artistic exchange and mutual inspiration. From the legacy of the French Artistic Mission to the groundbreaking dialogues of modernist artists and avant-garde movements, to the reciprocal influence of the great masters of abstraction, we trace the vibrant threads that have long intertwined the cultural identities of both nations across the Atlantic.This journey through shared creativity offers a deeper lens into the forces shaping today’s bold and ambitious cultural collaborations between Brazil and France.