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RARE VAN GOGH PAINTING UNSEEN FOR SIX DECADES HEADS TO AUCTION WITH ESTIMATES REACHING $180 MILLION •  CHRISTIE'S LONDON FRIEZE WEEK SALES SURPASS £218 MILLION, SIGNALING RENEWED CONFIDENCE IN THE TOP END OF THE MARKET • BTS STAR AND ART COLLECTOR RM STEPS INTO THE CURATORIAL SPOTLIGHT WITH SFMOMA EXHIBITION • BRITISH MUSEUM REPORTEDLY SECURES $40 MILLION DONATION AS THE FUTURE OF THE PARTHENON MARBLES RETURNS TO PUBLIC DEBATE • ROY LICHTENSTEIN RETURNS TO THE WHITNEY WITH HIS FIRST MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE IN MORE THAN THREE DECADES • TATE ACQUIRES WORKS BY MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN AND LUIS FERNANDO ZAPATA DURING FRIEZE LONDON 2026 • ABU DHABI EXPANDS ITS CULTURAL AMBITIONS AHEAD OF THE INAUGURAL FRIEZE ABU DHABI FAIR • ARTISTS SEEK NEW REPRESENTATION FOLLOWING THE CLOSURE OF STEPHEN FRIEDMAN GALLERY, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE TRADITIONAL DEALER MODEL • NEW INDEPENDENT ART FAIRS CHALLENGE FRIEZE'S ESTABLISHED FORMAT AS LONDON'S ART WEEK ATTRACTS ALTERNATIVE VOICES • TAREK ATOUI TRANSFORMS TATE MODERN'S TURBINE HALL INTO AN IMMERSIVE EXPLORATION OF SOUND AND SPACE • ROYAL ACADEMY AND LONDON MUSEUMS REVISIT THE LEGACY OF THE 1990S BRITISH ART SCENE
Minor Attractions 2026: Inside London’s Hotel Fair at The Newman
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Maxwell Stevens: Surfside — Time, Leisure and the Social Theatre of the Beach
Three years after ARTCOLLECTORNEWS first spoke with Maxwell Stevens about Last Days of Summer, the New York painter has returned to the beach. But in Surfside, the setting has become less a backdrop than a social and psychological stage.
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Tala Madani’s Control X: Why Painting Needs Things to Go Wrong
Tala Madani’s new paintings and animations turn cutting, erasure and reconstruction into a language of power. Using fresh artist testimony alongside the exhibition material, we examine why the work is funniest when control starts to fail.
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RM’s Collection at SFMOMA: What a Global Collector Gets Right About Korean Modernism

Nearly 150 works from RM’s collection meet SFMOMA in a major exhibition of Korean modern and contemporary art. Its real lesson is how a private collection develops a coherent eye.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Denzil Forrester’s Next Act: Why Thaddaeus Ropac Won the Race for One of Britain’s Great Painters of Nightlife

Thaddaeus Ropac’s representation of Denzil Forrester places one of Britain’s great painters of dub, dancehall and Black social space inside a new international chapter.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Iván Argote After the Pigeon: Fifteen Years of Making Trouble with Monuments, Galleries and Art History

At Perrotin London, Iván Argote celebrates fifteen years of Mamarrachos by turning scribbles, gallery rules and institutional authority into an unusually playful form of critique.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Cindy Sherman’s Fabric Matrons: Fashion, Ageing and the Art of Disappearing

Cindy Sherman’s new Fabric Matrons series turns Chanel fabrics, ageing, jewellery and self-invention into an unsettled study of who fashion allows to remain visible.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Minor Attractions 2026: Inside London’s Hotel Fair at The Newman

Minor Attractions returns for its fourth and largest edition, taking over 16 rooms at The Newman with more than 75 international participants. For collectors, the appeal is not simply that it is smaller than the major fairs, but that its hotel format changes how art, galleries and audiences meet.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
When the Digital Becomes Physical: Yelin Lee's Ghost Play

Yelin Lee's Ghost Play transforms emojis into sculpture, uses chroma-key screens and a two-minute delay, and turns visitors into their own fleeting afterimages.

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Articles

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