The Round-Up: 2025’s Highs, Lows, and WTFs

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We are back this week with our monthly edition of the Art Angle Round-up, where co-hosts Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by a guest to parse some of the biggest headlines in the art world. As we close out a busy calendar year—and for the last roundup of the year—we are reviewing all of 2025 and the trends, themes, and stories that defined it with Andrew Russeth, Artnet Pro editor and art critic. It's been a whirlwind of a year. We take a look at the art market, where slumped sales, gallery closures, and existential dread dominated the business up until November, when New York’s fall auctions saw the narrative take a turn, something that seemed to sustain across the primary market at Art…