I’ve been thinking about what it means—and how—to report on the state of the art market today. The art market is fucking fine today, yesterday, 1,000 years ago and 1,000 years from now.” Collector-turned-Instagram-Substack-influencer Jeff Magid declared: “I get it. People who write about the art world and art market professionally feel so unwelcome in the elite, walled-off world of wealth that they resent it and root for its downfall.”This writer, for one, does not resent the art market, nor root for its demise. MARK BRADFORD 's Okay, then I apologize , 2025, mixed media on canvas, in 3 parts, overall: 150.5 x 334.6 x 5.1 cm, at Hauser & Wirth's booth at Frieze Seoul, 2025. Linseed Gallery's booth at Frieze Seoul 2025.