Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People
Their acquisitions, affinities and approbations move the needle on valuation and redefine how art is made, shown and sold.
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When Smooth Stops Selling: The Decline of ‘Non-Frictional Art’
What once appeared to be the perfect alignment of aesthetics and market logic—smooth, neutral, digestible, collector-friendly—is now struggling to move.
Philipp Plein’s Runway Spectacle Starred Robots and Rappers
The stage was set with six inches of faux snow and a UFO looming over the room, which ultimately lowered to release a catsuit-clad Irina Shayk.
