New York Art Week: A Conversation at Spring Place with Bocconi Alumni New York

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On 12 May 2026, during New York Art Week, I joined a panel at Spring Place convened by Bocconi Alumni New York and Friends of Bocconi University on transparency and trust in the contemporary art market. There are few better ways to open NY Art Week than a room full of colleagues and friends arguing, generously, about where the market is heading.

I shared the stage with Prof. Andrea Rurale, who directs Bocconi's Intensive Program in Art Markets and Finance, alongside Magnus Resch and Maria Sancho-Arroyo. The conversation kept returning to a set of questions that are reshaping the field: is the market becoming more transparent, or simply more data-driven? What role do trust and expertise still play in the construction of value? How are AI, new data platforms, and a younger generation of collectors reshaping the future of the art market?

My contribution offered a reading of New York as an ecosystem in which institutional life and the market are tightly interwoven, and in which weeks like Art Week make that infrastructure visible in concentrated form. Museums, foundations, galleries, auction houses, advisors, and collectors operate within the same dense field, and the city's cultural standing depends on how that field is held together.

New York's cultural standing depends on how its ecosystem holds together, and weeks like Art Week make that infrastructure visible in concentrated form.

This is only the beginning: I am looking forward to attending the Bocconi Alumni Global Conference, which will include a major focus on the art market in September 2026.