The first French exhibition devoted to Kerry James Marshall brings 70 works and eight new paintings to Paris, revealing why institutional importance and market recognition do not arrive at the same moment.

Opening 22 September, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art turns George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s cross-category collecting philosophy into a major public institution.

Inside an I.M. Pei apartment at Kips Bay Towers, an exceptional photography and design collection reveals a mature collecting problem: when every object is strong, editing becomes the real form of connoisseurship.

The Whitney’s first major Minnie Evans retrospective in more than five decades shows why “outsider” and “self-taught” are too small for a practice built from modernity, spiritual vision, botanical structure and rigorous visual invention.

A four-decade London apartment collection coming to Dreweatts combines Regency furniture, antiquities, modern art and deep provenance into a masterclass in cross-category collecting.

A lifetime collection can become an heir’s logistical, financial and emotional burden overnight. From changing taste and stale valuations to museum gifts, digital art and forced sales, what serious collectors should plan before the collection becomes an estate.